Events for July 13, 2017
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6:00 pm
Glee’s CHRIS COLFER with his final book in the best selling Land of Stories series
#1 New York Times bestselling author CHRIS COLFER returns to Brookline Booksmith on tour for the sixth and final book in The Land of Stories series! Join us for an interactive event that will include: a reading from COLFER, audience Q&A, The Land of Stories trivia, a costume contest, and prizes. This is a ticketed […]
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DARYL GREGORY reads his newest novel: Spoonbenders
Harvard Book Store welcomes DARYL GREGORY—author of Afterparty, The Devil's Alphabet, and the Shirley Jackson Award–winning novella We Are All Completely Fine—for a discussion of his new novel, Spoonbenders. Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a […]
Find out more »LGBTQ Novelists JONATHAN STRONG and KELLY FORD
Porter Square Books hosts novelists JONATHAN STRONG and GrubStreet's KELLY FORD for a discussion of their work. JONATHAN STRONG's Quit the Race is "...the story of a loving long-term couple weighing the best interests of their relationship against the desire of each to live the life he wants...Strong uses this drama to explore the nature of […]
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Food Feuds: From Ancient Rome to Southie at Kickstand Cafe
Come to Kickstand Cafe to see novelist CRYSTAL KING with her novel Feast of Sorrow, Top Chef judge BARBARA LYNCH with her memoir Out of Line, and Boston Globe's food critic Ted Weesner. Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, KING’s seminal debut features the man who inspired the world’s oldest […]
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.