Events for August 7, 2019
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7:00 pm
Hallie Ephron in conversation with Kathy Vines at Brookline Booksmith
Emily Harlow makes a living decluttering peoples’ lives, but she’d love nothing better than to toss out all her husband’s crap. The larger his “collection” becomes, the deeper the distance grows between the couple. Luckily Emily’s got new clients to distract herself: an elderly widow whose husband left behind a mysterious storage unit, and a […]
Find out more »Charles King presents Gods of the Upper Air at Harvard Bookstore
Harvard Book Store welcomes CHARLES KING—National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Odessa—for a discussion of his new book, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. About Gods of the Upper Air At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by […]
Find out more »Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry Present Hello Girls at Trident Cafe
Join Brittany Cavallaro, New York Times bestselling author of the Charlotte Holmes series and the poetry collection Girl-King, and Emily Henry, author of The Love That Split the World and A Million Junes, as they launch their new book HELLO GIRLS, a darkly funny feminist novel about two teenage girls who have had enough of the controlling men in […]
Find out more »7:30 pm
Hannah Shaw in conversation with Michael Marotta
From Kitten Lady, the professional kitten rescuer, humane educator, animal advocate, and owner of the popular Instagram @kittenxlady comes the definitive book on saving the most vulnerable–and adorable–feline population: newborn kittens. Hannah Shaw is an award-winning kitten rescuer, humane educator, and unwavering animal advocate who has dedicated her life to protecting the tiniest and most vulnerable […]
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.