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6:30 pm

Love and Literature: A Panel on Romance at the Boston Public Library

February 28, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St
Boston, 02116 United States

Come join authors ELOISA JAMES, LAUREN WILLIG, and SARAH MACLEAN at the Boston Public Library for this Romance Fiction Panel. Eloisa James, author of Seven Minutes in Heaven, is a Shakespeare professor at Fordham University and a bestselling author of historical romance novels. She’s also the mother of two children and, in a particularly delicious irony for a […]

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7:00 pm

GISH JEN reads from her latest, “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap”

February 28, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States

Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning local writer GISH JEN—author of Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and Tiger Writing—for a discussion of her latest book, The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another. […]

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.