Events for November 20, 2019
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6:00 pm
Pastry Love: An Evening with Joanne Chang at More Than Words
Join Us Join Joanne Chang, James Beard award–winning baker and owner of the beloved Flour bakeries in Boston, as she launches her newest cookbook, Pastry Love. Hear her story, snag a signed copy of the cookbook, and sample a pastry from her collection of recipes. Joanne Chang An honors graduate of Harvard College with a […]
Find out more »NaNoWriMo at Wellesley Free Public Library
Don’t forget! There are a BUNCH of Write-ins happening in our area in November! Mark your calendar and come out! Allison made beautiful passports for you, and each signature in your Passport earns you a ticket in the TGIO Party raffle! We’ll let you know about those prizes coming up! Big thanks to Lisa and […]
Find out more »NaNoWriMo at Weston Public Library
Don't forget! There are a BUNCH of Write-ins happening in our area in November! Mark your calendar and come out! Allison made beautiful passports for you, and each signature in your Passport earns you a ticket in the TGIO Party raffle! We'll let you know about those prizes coming up! Big thanks to Lisa and […]
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Erin Eileen Almond presents WITCHES’ DANCE: A NOVEL in conversation with Steve Almond at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome local author ERIN EILEEN ALMOND for a discussion of her debut novel, Witches' Dance. She will be joined in conversation by her husband, bestselling writer STEVE ALMOND. About Witches' Dance Hilda Greer's love affair with the violin began at the age of seven, when she attended a performance by […]
Find out more »Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series at Kenmore Classroom Building, Boston University
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen will be speaking at Boston University as part of the Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series. Well-known books include The Sympathizer and The Refugees. Viet will have a Q&A session with the audience and a book signing afterward.
Find out more »Janaka Stucky presents ASCEND, ASCEND / Julia Guez presents IN AN INVISIBLE GLASS CASE WHICH IS ALSO A FRAME / Paige Ackerson-Kiely presents DOLEFULLY, A RAMPART STANDS at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
Written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church, Janaka Stucky’s Ascend Ascendis equal parts Walt Whitman and Maggot Brain, documenting the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine. […]
Find out more »Best Small Fictions Boston Reading and Launch at Newtonville Books
Celebrate the release of the 2019 edition of The Best Small Fictions, with readings by Chaya Bhuvaneswar, DeMisty Bellinger, Zoë Gadegbeku and Maggie Cooper. The Best Small Fictions anthology, now in its fifth year, presents one hundred and forty-six pristinely crafted pieces from an array of authors representing twenty-six nations and six continents. These short, elliptical […]
Find out more »George Howe Colt presents THE GAME at Porter Square Books
George Colt presents his book The Game, a New York Times Notable Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, for its new release in paperback. From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a well-blended narrative packed with top-notch reporting and relevance for our own time” (The Boston Globe) about the young athletes who battled […]
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.