Events for July 16, 2019
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PARIS 7 A.M.: A NOVEL
Paris 7 A.M.: A Novel Liza Wieland The acclaimed, award-winning author Liza Wieland of A Watch of Nightingales imagines in a sweeping and stunning novel what happened to the poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks she spent in Paris in 1937--the only year Elizabeth, a meticulous keeper of journals, didn't fully chronicle. Amidst the […]
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Andrew Shaffer presents Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery at Brookline Booksmith
In the sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel Hope Never Dies, Obama and Biden reprise their roles as BFFs-turned-detectives as they chase Obama’s stolen cell phone through the streets of Chicago–and right into a vast conspiracy. Set against the backdrop of a raucous city on St. Patrick’s Day, Joe and Obama race to find the shooter, only […]
Find out more »Liza Wieland presents Paris, 7 A.M.:
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed novelist, short story writer, and poet LIZA WIELAND for a discussion of her latest book, Paris, 7 A.M.: A Novel. About Paris, 7 A.M. June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, arrives in France with her college […]
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.