Events for July 26, 2018
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2:00 pm
Great American Read Panel on Romance Novels
For as long as books have existed, there have been love stories. But exactly what constitutes a perfect romance is different in every place and time. Join Under the Radar’s CALLIE CROSSLEY, along with SUSAN WEAVER SCHOPF, Professor of Literature at Harvard University, and Jackie Horne, President of the New England Chapter of the Romance […]
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GrubStreet Young Adult Writers Program Reading
Join GrubStreet and the Boston Athenæum for a special reading featuring GrubStreet's 2018 Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP) Summer Teen Fellows. Each year, GrubStreet's Summer Teen Fellowship immerses high school students in the writer’s life of creative craft and publishing. During three weeks at GrubStreet, teens work with published authors on original prose and poetry, […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.