MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2019 7:30 AM Dream Reception 8:30 AM Legacy Breakfast and Program Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Please join us for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast, MON JAN 21, the nation’s longest-running event to honor the legacy of Dr. King. This year’s theme is “Pledge to Carry On King's […]
Find out more »Discussing Passing by Nella Larsen. Read something off the beaten path! Our Small Press Book Club will meet to discuss a book from an independent publisher. To contact our moderator, email smallpress@brooklinebooksmith.com When childhood friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it’s been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white […]
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.