Events for September 5, 2017
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6:00 pm
CLAIRE MESSUD in conversation with WBUR’s CHRISTOPHER LYDON
Harvard Book Store and WBUR welcome local bestselling novelist CLAIRE MESSUD—author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs—and Radio Open Source's CHRISTOPHER LYDON for a discussion of MESSUD's latest novel, The Burning Girl, a coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, set in small-town Massachusetts. This event is ticketed. You may purchase tickets here. This event is co-sponsored by WBUR, […]
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A Dream Between Two Rivers, a new voice in short fiction
Get ready all short fiction, folktale, and fairytale lovers! From new independent-bookstore based publisher Cutlass Press/Papercuts JP comes the debut collection from a bold new LGBTQ voice in short fiction, KL PEREIRA. Known for their cutting-edge books, Cutlass Press takes on PEREIRA's newest collection: A Dream Between Two Rivers: Stories of Liminality. Before its publication, her […]
Find out more »Rethinking the Cold War with Kennedy School scholar ODD ARNE WESTAD
Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard Kennedy School's ODD ARNE WESTAD for a discussion of his latest book, The Cold War: A World History. We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II […]
Find out more »Author STEPHANIE GAYLE reads Idyll Fears, the 2nd in her LGTBQ crime series
Attention crime-novel enthusiasts! A new series is underway, and you can meet the author, STEPHANIE GAYLE, at Porter Square Books for a reading of the second novel in her crime series: Idyll Fears. It's two weeks before Christmas 1997, and Chief Thomas Lynch faces a crisis when Cody Forrand, a six-year-old with a life-threatening medical […]
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.