Events for October 15, 2018
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6:00 pm
Aperitivo with the Author: LORENZO PETRUZZIELLO at Eataly
Join author LORENZO PETRUZZIELLO as he discusses his debut novel The Love Fool, a romantic comedy set in Rome. During the aperitivo, an Eataly beverage manager will be serving up a favorite Italian cocktail and the chefs will prepare some typical Roman street food all while Lorenzo talks about his time in Rome and how he […]
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Frederick Douglass – Prophet of Freedom
In this remarkable new biography of great American orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, historian David W. Blight has drawn on new information from both a private collection and recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers. The first major biography of Douglass in a quarter century tells the fascinating story of Douglass’s two marriages, his complex extended […]
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.