Events for July 7, 2017
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Dire Literary Series: RACHEL KADISH, JAY SHEETS and LAUREN HILGER
The Dire Literary Series is pleased to host RACHEL KADISH, JAY SHEETS and LAUREN HILGER. Rachel Kadish is the award-winning author of the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story, as well as the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, Ploughshares, […]
Find out more »Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like true story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species. Join BEN MEZRICH at Brookline Booksmith for a look at his new book- Woolly. The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The 37th Parallel takes us on an exhilarating true adventure story from the icy terrain of […]
Find out more »Writer/Performer RANDY ROSS: God Bless Cambodia
Porter Square Books welcomes RANDY ROSS— a Boston-area writer, performer, and web consultant. His one-man show, "The Chronic Single's Handbook," has been featured at fringe theater festivals in the United States, Canada, and Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2007, he took a trip around the world and learned to say in three languages: "Speak English?" "Got Pepto-Bismol?" […]
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.