Story Club Boston is a storytelling/reading event where featured guests tell first-person, true stories either from memory or from the page. In addition, audience members can have the opportunity to tell their own story in our 5-minute open mic portion. This month's theme: School. Stories about what you've learned, whether inside or outside that brick […]
Find out more »The Boston Public Library and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund (“DLDF”) are pleased to present “Banned Together: A Censorship Cabaret” as a part of Banned Books Week (September 23-29th), the annual celebration of the freedom to read. Banned Together is a celebration of songs and scenes from shows that have been censored or challenged on […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.