Events for March 22, 2017 › Book Talk
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6:00 pm
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes at Old South Church
Join Emmy Award–winning MSNBC news anchor CHRIS HAYES for a panel discussion on inequality in America and his latest book, A Colony in a Nation. Hayes, who also authored the New York Times bestselling book Twilight of the Elites, will be joined in conversation by Emerson College's JABARI ASIM and Suffolk University Law School's FRANK RUDY COOPER. […]
Find out more »Lowell Lecture: Reginald Dwayne Betts – An Evening of Poetry
Boston Public Library welcomes REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS for a reading from his two critically-acclaimed collections of poetry, Shahid Reads His Own Palm and Bastards of the Reagan Era, a discussion of the power of language, and an examination of the important intersection of art and social justice. Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year old teen sentenced […]
Find out more »7:00 pm
The Hollywood Daughter – Ingrid Bergman
Brookline Booksmith welcomes New York Times-bestselling author KATE ALCOTT for a discussion of her new book, The Hollywood Daughter. Alcott, author of The Dressmaker, The Daring Ladies of Lowell, and A Touch of Stardust, is back with a novel of self discovery and family secrets set against the backdrop of 1950s Hollywood and legendary actress […]
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.