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7:00 pm

Short story author PATRICK DACEY reads from his first novel The Outer Cape

July 14, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome PATRICK DACEY, author of the short story collection We’ve Already Gone This Far, for a discussion of his first novel, The Outer Cape. Robert and Irene Kelly were a golden couple of the late ‘70s—she an artist, he a businessman, each possessed by dynamism and vibrancy.  But with […]

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Novelist LINDSAY HATTON Reads “Monterey Bay”

July 14, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
Free

Porter Square Books welcomes LINDSAY HATTON with her first novel, Monterey Bay. In 1940, fifteen year-old Margot Fiske arrives on the shores of Monterey Bay with her eccentric entrepreneur father. Margot has been her father's apprentice all over the world, until an accident in Monterey's tide pools drives them apart and plunges her head-first into the […]

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7:30 pm

Waiting for Waiting for Godot

July 14, 2017 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave
Boston, MA 02116 United States
Pay-What-You-Can

In the show The New York Times hails as "delectable", hapless yet devoted understudies Ester and Val ponder art, life and theatre while they wait backstage, certain that one day their big break will come. Will tonight be their night? This madcap, laugh-filled love letter to theatre and hysterical homage to Samuel Beckett's classic drama makes its Boston debut […]

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