Events for October 17, 2018
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12:00 pm
Author Talk and Book Signing with BARBARA BERENSEN
Join us at the State Library of Massachusetts on Wednesday, October 17, for an author talk and book signing with BARBARA BERENSEN, Senior Attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and author of the new book Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers. In anticipation of the 2020 centennial of the ratification of the […]
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Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith presents: Wayétu Moore in conversation with Tanushree Baidya for SHE WOULD BE KING
This event is presented in partnership with the Boston Writers of Color group (supported by GrubStreet). Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel She Would Be King reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and […]
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.