Events for April 10, 2018
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4:00 pm
The Writer and the Critic: Marilynne Robinson and James Wood in Conversation
Pulitzer Prize–winning author MARILYNN ROBINSON—acclaimed for the novels “Housekeeping” (1980), “Gilead” (2004), “Home” (2008), and “Lila” (2014)—will participate in a conversation with literary critic JAMES WOOD. Please register online.
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Actress/Director CHRISTINE LAHTI Shares From Her Book “True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness” at the Boston Public Library
For decades, actress and director CHRISTINE LAHTIhas captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now, in her comical and boldly honest essay collection, Lahti focuses on three major periods of […]
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PAULA DUGAN Featured at Story Space
PAULA DUGAN tells stories from myth, tradition and the mists of her own musings. Her stories from and about Ireland express a Celtic world view of life, explore our connection to nature, traverse a magical Otherworld, and peer into our dreams, desires and longings. Hosted By: Ralph Chadis. There is a $5 requested donation. Every Tuesday […]
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A Night of Memoir at Brookline Booksmith
Brookline Booksmith welcomes ANNA ORNSTEIN, reading from her memoir, My Mother’s Eyes: Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl and PHYLLIS SKOY, reading from her memoir, Myopia.
Find out more »Paperback Launch of Crystal King’s FEAST OF SORROW
Come celebrate the paperback launch of Crystal King's acclaimed debut, FEAST OF SORROW (Touchstone Books/Simon and Schuster), hailed as “a delight to the senses” by Library Journal (starred review) and long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Crystal, a culinary enthusiast, will speak about the food customs of Ancient Rome and share the story of […]
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.