Events for September 7, 2017
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8:00 am
Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest!
Have you got a story to tell? Rockport New Year's Eve is now accepting submissions for their 10 Minute Play Contest. The theme: “A New Beginning.” The contest is open to all playwrights. Plays can be of any genre, as long as they are written for a general audience and are not musicals. There is […]
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The Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things, a conversation with KIM ADRIAN and MATTHEW BATTLES
Brookline Booksmith hosts authors KIM ADRIAN and MATTHEW BATTLES who will read two entries from Object Lessons - a nonfiction series published by The Atlantic and Bloomsbury press about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From sardines to silence, juniper berries to jumper cables, now it is Sock and Tree! Sock, by ADRIAN, tells the 'history' […]
Find out more »VANESSA GRIGORIADIS: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus
Harvard Book Store welcomes VANESSA GRIGORIADIS, contributing editor of the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, for a discussion of her book, Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus. A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Women use fresh, savvy methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual […]
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.