Events for May 8, 2017
Day Navigation
6:00 pm
Remembering PHILLIS WHEATLEY
Barbara Lewis, the Director of the William Trotter Institute at UMass Boston, presents "Remembering Phillis" in the Commonwealth Salon at the Boston Public Library's Central Branch in Copley Square. Phillis Wheatley, the African-born muse of 18th century Boston, arrived in Boston in 1761 in what is now Chinatown, near the corner of Beach and Tyler. […]
Find out more »ELIZABETH STROUT in Conversation with ANDRE DUBUS III in Brookline
An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this piece by Pulitzer Prize-winner ELIZABETH STROUT. Join her and Andre Dubus III at Coolidge Corner Theatre for a conversation, hosted by Brookline Booksmith, on Anything is Possible. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family and the hope that comes with reconciliation, her newest book underscores Strout’s […]
Find out more »RICHARD RUSSO Trajectory: Stories
Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls—is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In "Horseman," a professor confronts a young […]
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.