Events for April 5, 2018
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7:00 pm
MEG WOLITZER at Wellesley Books
MEG WOLITZER, bestselling author of The Interestings, presents The Female Persuasion, an electric, multilayered novel about ambition, power, friendship, and mentorship, and the romantic ideals we all follow into adulthood. Tickets for this event are $5 and can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. Buy tickets in-store at Wellesley Books, […]
Find out more »ICA Reads: VALERIA LUISELLI with JILL MEDVEDOW
Writer VALERIA LUISELLI’s latest nonfiction book, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, is a short, insightful retelling of her personal experience as a translator for children migrating to the United States, predominantly from Central America; her innovative storytelling humanizes a fraught and contentious topic. Join Luiselli at the ICA as she discusses […]
Find out more »Xhenet Aliu, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, & Gabrielle Fuentes at Belmont Books
Belmont Books is thrilled to have three wonderful prose writers visiting for a special event. In Xhenet Aliu's new novel Brass, a waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left […]
Find out more »7:30 pm
Arlington Author Salon: “Just Kidding: A Humorous Take on Raising Humans”
The Arlington Author Salon is a free reading series with a twist: each author’s presentation includes something special to tickle the senses. Music, paintings, photographs, tasty treats, fabrics, even smells! Let yourself be transported with an immersive, literary experience. April's reading "Just Kidding: A Humorous Take on Raising Humans" features Chris Monks, the managing editor of the humor site McSweeney’s […]
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.