Boston University invites you to join The Favorite Poem Project and the BU Arts Initiative for a reading at Boston University’s Tsai Center. This event will feature some of Boston’s leading public figures all reading poems they love. Readers include elected officials, scientists, community activists, sports and media figures, artists, and entrepreneurs. This event is […]
Find out more »Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome TOVA MIRVIS, author of the new memoir, The Book of Separation. Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, TOVA MIRVIS committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.