Events for September 12, 2017
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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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Mass Poetry Unplugged at Prudential Center
Join Mass Poetry for a series of readings at The Prudential Center in Boston. AARON SMITH, ENZO SILON SURIN and AMY MEVORACH will perform their work in the outdoor courtyard, Boylston Plaza located at 800 Boylston St., Tuesday, September 12th from 5 pm - 7 pm. This event is free and open to the public. […]
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“America’s librarian” NANCY PEARL shares her debut, “George and Lizzie”
From “America’s librarian” and NPR Books commentator NANCY PEARL comes a debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie is an intimate story of new and past loves, the scars of childhood, and an imperfect marriage at its defining moment. PEARL speaks about the pleasures of reading to literacy organizations and community […]
Find out more »NYT bestselling author ATUL GAWANDE with novelist JENNIFER HAIGH
Brookline Booksmith hosts bestselling surgeon/author ATUL GAWANDE with American novelist and Hemingway Foundation/PEN award-winning JENNIFER HAIGH. They will be at the Coolidge Corner Theatre to discuss GAWANDE's latest book: Being Mortal. Named a “Best Book of the Year” by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, Being Mortal is now in paperback with a new reading group guide. […]
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NYT best-selling author GRETCHEN RUBIN in conversation with MELISSA HARTWIG
Harvard Book Store welcomes New York Times-bestselling author GRETCHEN RUBIN—author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project—and Whole30 program creator MELISSA HARTWIG for a discussion of Rubin's latest book, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too). A book signing with both speakers will follow the discussion. […]
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Award-winning poet CHUCK CARLISE at Trident Booksellers
Trident Booksellers is pleased to host award-winning poet CHUCK CARLISE for a night of his poetry from his newest collection In One Version of the Story. He will be reading, signing, and answering questions about the collection. In One Version of the Story is a lyric exploration of the ways human beings confront desire, loss and absence […]
Find out more »Little Fires Everywhere, the latest from CELESTE NG
Porter Square Books is pleased to host local novelist, and best-selling author of Everything I Never Told You, CELESTE NG for a reading of her newest novel, Little Fires Everywhere. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful […]
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KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD in conversation with the New Yorker’s JAMES WOOD
Harvard Book Store welcomes KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, bestselling and acclaimed author of the six-volume novel My Struggle, and literary critic JAMES WOOD for a discussion of Knausgaard's latest book, Autumn—the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons. Boston University's WILLIAM PIERCE, author of Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle, will provide the […]
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.