Events for September 22, 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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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
Harvard Book Store welcomes Tufts University's DENNIS C. RASMUSSEN for a discussion of his latest book, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought. David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great […]
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Neuroscientist TALI SHAROT on “The Influential Mind”
Harvard Book Store welcomes cognitive neuroscientist TALI SHAROT—founder and director of the Affective Brain Lab at University College London—and Harvard Law School's CASS R. SUNSTEIN for a discussion of Sharot's latest book, The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others. In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist TALI SHAROT takes us on a thrilling exploration […]
Find out more »YA author BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe) at Brookline Booksmith
Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ, author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, for a reading and discussion of his latest young adult novel: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life. Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But […]
Find out more »Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: A fascinating journey through the craft chocolate revolution
If you like chocolate, consider yourself a "foodie", have a sweet tooth, or want to impress your friends with how you pair your chocolates with drinks, you'll enjoy this event. Porter Square Books invites all of the chocoholics, foodies, sweet-toothed readers to join Brooklyn author MEGAN GILLER for a discussion of her nonfiction book Bean-To-Bar Chocolate: […]
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.