Events for May 22, 2017
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3:00 pm
SARAH PRAGER: Queer, There, & Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals-and you've never heard of many of them. Sarah delves deep into the lives of 23 people who fought, created, and loved on their own terms. From high-profile figures like Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt to the trailblazing gender-ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a bisexual blues singer […]
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DANI SHAPIRO at Brookline Booksmith
Brookline Booksmith welcomes DANI SHAPIRO for a discussion of her new memoir, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage. The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory; about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds; and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and […]
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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.