Events for September 17, 2018
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6:00 pm
ERICK KLINENBERG on How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn't seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together; to find common purpose. But exactly how can this be done? […]
Find out more »Reading from Forest Hills Cemetery-inspired Novel
BETH CATRODALE will read from her new novel In This Ground, which is set almost entirely in a cemetery. She will also discuss how Jamaica Plain’s historic Forest Hills Cemetery served as an inspiration for the book.
Find out more »Voices from Latin America: A Reading & Conversation with HECTOR ABAD
Join us for a reading & conversation with Colombian author HECTOR ABAD, author of The Farm (Archipelago Books, 2018). Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the mountains of Colombia. The land provides the setting for the siblings’ happiest memories, but it also reminds them of their struggle […]
Find out more »7:00 pm
NIGEL TRAVIS (Dunkin Donuts chairman) at Wellesley Books
NIGEL TRAVIS, executive chairman and former CEO of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins, presents The Challenge Culture, a reflection on the unique, results-oriented discipline he’s developed over decades of leadership, which provides a blueprint for any organization to achieve prosperity.
Find out more »DANA LEVIN in conversation with STEPHANIE BURT
Join us for an evening of poetry discussion featuring Dana Levin and local poet Stephanie Burt to celebrate Levin's latest collection, Banana Palace. In her newest collection, Dana Levin uses humor, jump-cut imagery, and popular culture references in preparation for the approaching apocalypse. Against a backdrop of Facebook, cat memes, and students searching their smartphones for […]
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.