Events for June 20, 2017
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ARUNDHATI ROY – Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Novel
The long awaited follow-up to The God of Small Things is here. Join ARUNDHATI ROY at Old South Church for a reading from her first novel in twenty years. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes its readers on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi to the mountains and […]
Find out more »Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
Harvard Book Store welcomes bestselling biographer JAMES MCGRATH MORRIS—author of the National Book Prize–winning Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne and The First Lady of the Black Press —for a discussion of his latest book, The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War. John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of […]
Find out more »Novelist ANITA DIAMANT discusses her newest nonfiction
ANITA DIAMANT, hosted by Brookline Booksmith, discusses her newest guide. Newly revised and updated, The Jewish Wedding Now, is the definitive guide to planning a Jewish wedding—written by bestselling novelist ANITA DIAMANT, author of The Red Tent and The Boston Girl, and one of the most respected writers on contemporary Jewish life. This event is not ticketed.
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.