Events for August 8, 2017
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Mass Poetry Unplugged at Prudential Center
Join Mass Poetry for the first in a month-long reading series at The Prudential Center in Boston. Poets Kelly Sheng, Sharon Amuguni and Regie Gibson will perform their work in the Prudential Center Courtyard on Tuesday, August 8 from 5 - 7 pm.
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The Misfortune of Marion Palm: a conversation between EMILY CULLITON and MONA AWAD
Brookline Booksmith welcomes EMILY CULLITON and MONA AWAD for a conversation about CULLITON's book, The Misfortune of Marion Palm. AWAD's writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Walrus, Joyland, Post Road, St. Petersburg Review, and elsewhere; CULLITON is a PhD candidate at the University of Denver for fiction. The Misfortune of Marion Palm is her first novel. About The Misfortune of Marion Palm: […]
Find out more »Biographer MARK SCHNEIDER on Gerry Studs: America’s First Openly Gay Congressman
Porter Square Books welcomes biographer MARK ROBERT SCHNEIDER with his biography of the first openly gay congressman Gerry Studds, who served the Massachusetts South Shore, Cape Cod, and New Bedford congressional district from 1973 to 1997. On the floor of Congress, Studds confessed to having behaved inappropriately and then courageously declared that he was a gay […]
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.