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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 […]
Find out more »#Read4Refugees
#Read4Refugees is an annual, worldwide read-in to support refugees. By staying in to read a book on a night of their choice between October 1st and 15th and donating what they would have spent on a night out, readers around the world will help bring critical resources to vulnerable refugees in Africa and around the […]
Find out more »The Great Falls Word Festival at Western, MA
The Great Falls Word Festival 10 Year Celebration Friday Oct 11th to Monday Oct 14th Will be 4 days of Words Of joy Of rebellion Of remembering Of healing Of calling out the injustices Of Now is the time to put in your proposals More info will be on the web site soon www.greatfallswordfestival.com At […]
Find out more »LeakyCon at Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center
Celebrate ten years of LeakyCon and return back to the city that started it all! Join the biggest Harry Potter fans from around the world as we gather once again in Boston, where the very first LeakyCon was held in 2009. Enjoy hours of panels, programs, and performances created with the biggest Harry Potter fans […]
Find out more »Native American Poets Playlist: Poems in the Gallery at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Enrich your museum visit by listening to an evocative playlist of contemporary poems by Native American authors. Wander freely across the first-floor galleries to see where the poems take you and expand your understanding of Native arts and cultures. The poems, drawn from a powerful recent anthology, New Poets of Native Nations (edited by Heid […]
Find out more »Overnight Readathon 2019 at Porter Square Books
Join us after hours for this year's Overnight Readathon! Tickets are required for this event. Ever wonder what the books whisper to each other when the store is closed? Support literacy for young readers and students? Want to stay up all night reading? Then join us for our Overnight Readathon on Saturday, October 12 into Sunday, October […]
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Children’s Storytime:Julie Fogliano and Susan Cooper present THE WORD PIRATES and JUST IN CASE YOU WANT TO FLY at Brookline Booksmith
Julie Fogliano’s Just In Case You Want to Fly is a gentle, contemplative book about growing up. It’s about parents giving their children the gifts, no matter how quiet or small, to succeed and to navigate the world on their own. And it’s about the connection that binds a parent and child… because no matter […]
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Grown Up Book Fair at Aeronaut Brewing
Join us on Sunday, October 13th from 2-6PM at Aeronaut Brewing for our Fall Grown Up Book Fair. The Grown Up Book Fair will have everything you love about school book fairs (including the pencil sets) plus beer! Since the Fair falls during Indigenous Peoples Day weekend, we're bringing a selection of great books by indigenous authors. Since we get pretty […]
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.