Events for April 13, 2017
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7:00 pm
Rocket Girls at Newtonville Books
Hidden Figures sparked your curiosity? Join local science writer NATHALIA HOLT for the riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. Holt is a Fellow at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, and will be discussing her new book: Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to […]
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Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually […]
Find out more »Award Winning Poet Tom Sleigh reads with BU MFA alum Laura Marris
Critically acclaimed poet Tom Sleigh reads with BU MFA alum Laura Marris as a part of the Robert Lowell Memorial Reading Series at Boston University. Tom Sleigh's many books include Station Zed, Army Cats, winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Space Walk, which received the Kingsley […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.