Do you pride yourself in being an armchair wine-critic? Join BIANCA BOSKER, former executive tech editor of The Huffington Post, at Harvard Bookstore for a look at her new book- Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste. With boundless curiosity, humor, and a […]
Find out more »Porter Square Books welcomes authors JULIA GLASS and EDWARD KELSEY MOORE with their novels A House Among the Trees and The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues. They will discuss how the past can catch up to the present, no matter how hard you try to leave it behind. In GLASS's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three […]
Find out more »Sci-fi fans, take note! Brookline Booksmith welcomes NYT bestselling author CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE and novelist THEODORA GOSS for a discussion of females in horror/sci-fi literature. In their latest works, Valente and Goss write from women’s perspectives. VALENTE's The Refrigerator Monologues explores the a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.