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8:00 am

Authors AKHIL SHARMA and BILL ROORBACK present their short story collections

June 21, 2017 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
Free

A double-header from two acclaimed short story authors!  Brookline Booksmith welcomes AKHIL SHARMA with A Life of Adventure and Delight and BILL ROORBACH with The Girl of the Lake. Respectively referred to as "hypnotic as...the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation), In A Life of Adventure and Delight, SHARMA delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists […]

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7:00 pm

No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities are Passing on the Torch

June 21, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446

In early 2015, it seemed as though Boston was the forerunner to host the 2024 Olympics. But by July, it was agreed to end Boston's bid. What happened? Join CHRIS DEMPSEY at Brookline Booksmith for a discussion of his new book- No Boston Olympics. It tells the local, inside story of the people who derailed attempts […]

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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.