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Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest!

September 7, 2017 | 8:00 am - September 22, 2017 | 5:00 pm
Rockport, MA, PO Box 790
Rockport, MA 01996 United States
$10

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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3:00 pm

HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr. at Harvard Book Store

September 15, 2017 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.—the founding Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, author or co-author of twenty-one books, and Emmy Award-winning creator fifteen documentary films—for a discussion of The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers, a landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of […]

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7:00 pm

NATHAN ENGLANDER shares his latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth

September 15, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed writer and translator NATHAN ENGLANDER—author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—for a discussion of his latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth. Dinner at the Center of the Earth is a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory […]

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Novelist NICOLE KRAUSS interviewed by the New Yorker’s JAMES WOOD at Brookline Booksmith

September 15, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
$5

Author of Man Walks Into a Room, The History of Love, and Great House, NICOLE KRAUSS comes to Brookline Booksmith with New Yorker critic JAMES WOOD for a discussion of her latest publication, Forest Dark. The award-winning, New York Times bestselling author conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two […]

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