Events for July 11, 2017
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A Night of Poetry at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes prize-winning poet ADRIENNE RAPHEL and Catenary Press co-editor DANIEL POPPICK for readings from their debut poetry collections, What Was It For and The Police. In her debut collection What Was It For, Adrienne Raphel revitalizes the topsy-turvy lyric and its evergreen sagacity. Charged with an electric syntax, haunted by lyric history, and “gripped […]
Find out more »Satirist MATTHEW KLAM in conversation with CURTIS SITTENFELD
Brookline Booksmith hosts MATTHEW KLAM, author of story collection Sam the Cat: and Other Stories, with the release of his first novel Who is Rich? He is joined by bestselling author CURTIS SITTENFELD (Prep). Who is Rich? A provocative and hilarious satire of love, sex, money, and politics in our new gilded age. This event is not ticketed.
Find out more »Local novelists KELLY FORD (Cottonmouths) and MICHELLE HOOVER (Bottomland)
Join local authors and Grubstreet instructors KELLY FORD and MICHELLE HOOVER at Papercuts JP for an evening of reading and discussion. From a compelling new voice in LGBTQ and Southern fiction, FORD's Cottonmouths is a gripping tale of crime and desire amid small-town America’s meth epidemic. At once intimate and sweeping, HOOVER's Bottomland follows the Hess family in […]
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.