Events for February 8, 2018
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12:00 pm
ROSALYN D. ELDER on African American Heritage in Massachusetts
Join us at the State Library of Massachusetts at noon on Thursday, February 8, to hear author Rosalyn D. Elder speak about her recent book Exploring the Legacy: People and Places of Significance, part of the African American Heritage in Massachusetts series. Exploring the Legacy is both a tourist guide and a history book, providing details about […]
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History, Identity, Politics, and the Art of Writing: A Lecture with VIET THANH NGUYEN
What are the challenges for writers concerned with history, identity, and politics? How do writers respond to these themes in language, form, story, and theme? In this lecture, VIET THANH NGUYEN offers some answers through an exploration of his writing and criticism. His remarks will be followed by a discussion with writer GISH JEN. Register […]
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DAVID DONOVAN on Henry Beston’s “The Outermost House”
The Friends of the Charlestown Branch of the BPL is pleased to host a presentation by DAVID DONOVAN on Henry Beston’s The Outermost House. This event is free and open to all, with a reception following. Published in 1928, Henry Beston’s The Outermost House, was written after Beston spent a long stretch of solitude in a 20’x16’ house located on […]
Find out more »Memoir Incubator Open House & Info Session
Interested in taking your memoir to the next level? Join GrubStreet Thursday, February 8th for an informal Q&A session on our Memoir Incubator program. Alumni of the program and instructor ALYSIA ABBOTT will be there to answer any questions you have about the Memoir Incubator program. We'll give you all the information you need to know […]
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KRISTIN HANNAH at Wellesley Books
KRISTIN HANNAH, bestselling author of The Nightingale, presents The Great Alone, a story of a family in crisis and a young girl struggling to survive at the edge of the world, in America’s last true frontier. Tickets for this event are $5 and can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. […]
Find out more »Vino & Verse: A Valentine’s Open Mic at the Boston Public Library
In honor of Valentine's Day, local poets KURT KLOPMEIER and KRYSTEN HILL are hosting an open mic of love-themed poetry for the in-love, lovesick, lovelorn, and forlorn! In partnership with Mass Poetry, we're inviting all poetry fans to bring a favorite poem about the effects of Cupid's arrow, either pleasurable or painful. Fortify yourself with […]
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.