Events for July 6, 2017
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7:00 pm
Memoirist LEAH CAROLL and Essayist ALAN FISHBONE talk mortality and freedom
An event of a different color: LEAH CAROLL delves into the traumatic deaths of her parents and their intersections with the Rhode-Island mafia in Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love. ALAN FISHBONE is the motorcycle-riding classical scholar who offers wisdom gathered from the poetry of antiquity, and from near-death experiences on the open road in […]
Find out more »Novelists MARGOT LIVESEY (Mercury) and LIZ MOORE (The Unseen World)
Join Papercuts for a double-author event with MARGOT LIVESEY, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury and The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing, and LIZ MOORE, author of The Unseen World. In Mercury, Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optometrist in suburban Boston, he is sure that he and his […]
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.