Events for May 11, 2017
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7:00 pm
“Changing of the Bard”: An Evening of Poetry in Brookline
Free
"Changing of the Bard" is an evening of poetry hosted by Brookline poets laureate past & present JUDITH STEINBERGH, JAN SCHEREIBER and ZVI A SESLING. They will be reading poetry from throughout New England.
Find out more »The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
What will 21st century fiction look like? Acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch examines some of our most beloved writers, including Haruki Murakami, Elena Ferrante, Roberto Bolano, and Margaret Atwood, to better understand literature in the age of globalization. The global novel, he finds, is not so much a genre as a way of imagining the […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.