Events for June 14, 2017
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ROXANE GAY reads from her book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Harvard Bookstore welcomes ROXANE GAY at First Parish Church. Gay, the bestselling author of Bad Feminist, An Untamed State, and Difficult Women, will be presenting her latest book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, […]
Find out more »JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Reads at Newtonville Books
How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’s first novel in eleven years: Here I […]
Find out more »The Chalk Artist at Porter Square Books
Porter Square books welcomes ALLEGRA GOODMAN for a discussion of her latest novel. Wise, warm, and enchanting, The Chalk Artist is both a finely rendered portrait of modern love and a celebration of all the realms we inhabit: real and imagined, visual and virtual, seemingly independent yet hopelessly tangled. Allegra Goodman's novels include The Cookbook Collector and Intuition. […]
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.