Events for August 6, 2019
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6:00 pm
Fems x Boston Immigrant Writers Salon: Workshop and Open Mic
Boston Immigrant Writers Salon and FEMS Tournament are THRILLED to invite you to an evening of celebrating femme, immigrant, and diaspora voices! Join us for a Poetry Workshop, followed by an Open Mic, and finally a performance by our Feature Artist and Workshop Leader Danielle Legros Georges, Boston's former Poet Laureate. And don't forget to […]
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Elissa Altman in conversation with Joanna Rakoff at Brookline Booksmith
How can a mother and daughter who love (but don’t always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It’s the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. Motherland is a story that touches every home and every life, mapping the ferocity of maternal love, […]
Find out more »Darrel J. McLeod presents Mamaskatch at Harvard Bookstore
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed author DARREL J. MCLEOD for a discussion of his debut book, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. About Mamaskatch As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family’s history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. […]
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.