Events for September 7, 2018
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GARY SHTEYNGART at Harvard Bookstore
Harvard Bookstore welcomes GARY SHTEYNGART as he presents his latest novel, Lake Success. Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a […]
Find out more »CATHERINE GUTHRIE: Flat
As a young, queer woman, CATHERINE GUTHRIE had worked hard to feel at home in her body. However, after years writing about women's health and breast cancer, Guthrie is thrust into the role of the patient after a devastating diagnosis at age thirty-eight. At least, she thinks, I know how to fight this. She was wrong. In […]
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.