Events for October 11, 2018
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6:00 pm
IMANI PERRY, author of Looking for Lorraine: the Radical and Radiant Life of Lorraine Hansberry, in conversation with Tracey Heather Strain, documentary filmmaker, “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” (PBS American Masters)
Lorraine Hansberry, who died at age thirty-four, was best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, but her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements. Her unflinching commitment to social justice brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin […]
Find out more »Meet the Author: LILLIAN LI, author of Number One Chinese Restaurant
Join Palo Arts Center for a meet & greet with LILLIAN LI, author of the hit debut novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant. Tickets $30 per person includes book and light dinner. Seating is limited. Purchase ticket by Friday, October 5th. All proceeds support BCNC programs for children, youth, and families. ABOUT THE AUTHOR LILLIAN LI is […]
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Lit Up Gala
What do you get when you combine inspiring poetry and prose performances with a great cocktail party? Lit Up, of course! We hope you can join us for GrubStreet’s annual narrative arts gala. In doing so, you will not only enjoy a night of writer performances and bookish fun, but also support literary access for […]
Find out more »Ploughshares Hosts JILL MCCORKLE in conversation with MARGOT LIVESEY
Ploughshares is hosting an event at Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the launch of their summer issue, guest-edited by JILL MCCORKLE. She'll be in conversation with MARGOT LIVESEY, their former fiction editor and current faculty member at Iowa.
Find out more »Author JENN ABELSON and Boston Globe’s MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN
We'll be hosting a conversation between authors, journalists, and friends Jenn Abelson and Meredith Goldstein. Can't Help Myself is a disarmingly honest memoir about giving advice when you're not sure what you're doing yourself, by the woman behind The Boston Globe's Love Letters column, Meredith Goldstein. Every day, Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein takes on the relationship problems […]
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.