Events for July 28, 2019
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10:00 am
Breath, Heart, Story: Writing and Meditation
Creativity is intelligence having fun. Each workshop is designed around a meaningful theme - beauty, generosity, resilience, love, gratitude. We will investigate these themes on the cushion, the blank page, in our body and heart, and with each other. Inspired by this theme and how it shows up in our life, we will devote some […]
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The Harvard Square Book Circle discusses James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room: A Novel
The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, discusses Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love. About Giovanni's Room David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.