What's more satisfying than leaving work behind on a Friday afternoon? Rounding out the week with a free writing session, of course! Maximize that Friday feeling and kick off your writing weekend. Leave work behind on Friday, January 24th, from 5:30pm-6:30pm and come on over to Grub HQ. In 60 jam-packed minutes, you’ll meet fellow writers and get […]
Find out more »Porter Square Books is delighted to partner with WBUR CitySpace for a reading and talk with Jeanine Cummins, author of the extraordinary new novel and Porter Square Books staff favorite, American Dirt. Cummins will appear in conversation with WBUR immigration reporter Shannon Dooling, with a book signing to follow. “Extraordinary.” —Stephen King “This book is not simply […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome MENG JIN—Kundiman Fellow and Harvard alumna—for a discussion of her debut novel, Little Gods. About Little Gods On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.