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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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STEPHEN GREENBLATT: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
This is a must-see for all literature lovers. Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author STEPHEN GREENBLATT for a discussion of his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made […]
Find out more »Sci-Fi author M.T. ANDERSON and award-winning novelist JULIA GLASS in conversation
Join Trident Booksellers for a night of conversation between authors M.T. ANDERSON and JULIA GLASS. National Book Award winner M.T. ANDERSON returns to future Earth with Landscape with Invisible Hand, a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist […]
Find out more »The Ways Women Age by Professor ABIGAIL BROOKS
Porter Square Books is pleased to host ABIGAIL BROOKS, director of the Women’s Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Providence College, with her book exploring the identity, body image, beauty standards, and expectations of femininity. Set against the backdrop of commercialized medicine in the United States, ABIGAIL BROOKS investigates the anti-aging craze from […]
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.