Events for September 26, 2017
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ANDREA PITZER on One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
Harvard Book Store and the Nieman Foundation welcome Nieman Storyboard founder ANDREA PITZER—author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov—for a discussion of her latest book, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps. In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, PITZER reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical […]
Find out more »A Night of Chilling Stories with GARETH HINDS and BEN LOORY
Attention all Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark fans: this is an event you'd regret missing. Brookline Booksmith welcomes artist-adapter GARETH HINDS and author BEN LOORY for a night of their chilling tales. HINDS will be presenting his graphic novel Poe: Stories and Poems, a Graphic Novel Adaptation, and BEN LOORY will be discussing his story collection Tales of […]
Find out more »#Thoreau200: A Screening of PAUL TURANO’s Wonder, Wander, Wilderness
As part of the city-wide festival Boston is Thoreau Country and #Thoreau200, in honor of the great writer's bicentennial, Emerson College is pleased to host a screening of PAUL TURANO's film, Wonder, Wander, Wilderness. Wander, Wonder, Wilderness is a documentary project that explores the urban wilds and parks of Greater Boston. This hour long essay […]
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.