Events for September 24, 2019
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ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre
Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play arrives in a marvelously funny, spectacularly beautiful new production. This modern-day classic tragicomedy imagines the lives of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. As the story unfolds, they voice their confusion about the play that’s being performed without them, untangling bigger questions about life and death, reality […]
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Transnational Series: Sigrún Pálsdóttir in conversation with translator Lytton Smith at Brookline Booksmith
Sigrún Pálsdóttir will be in conversation with Lytton Smith, the translator of her novel History. A Mess. This event is part of our Transnational Literature Series. For more information contact Shuchi Saraswat at shuchi@brooklinebooksmith.com. While studying a seventeenth-century diary, the protagonist of History. A Mess. uncovers information about the first documented professional female artist. This discovery promises […]
Find out more »New Voices in Fiction: Lara Prescott at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome award-winning writer Lara Prescott for a discussion of her debut novel, The Secrets We Kept. She will be joined in conversation by acclaimed author and writing instructor Michelle Hoover, head of GrubStreet's Novel Incubator program. Harvard Book Store's New Voices in Fiction series, presented with GrubStreet, highlights debut fiction […]
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.