Events for June 1, 2017 › Book Talk
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6:30 pm
Going to the Chapel and Staying Married
With apologies to Shelley: if spring comes, can wedding season be far behind? We all know the clichés around marriage—eternal bliss, soul mates, happily ever after—but these leave out the real stuff, the day-to-day experience of being and staying married. There will be fights, there will be angst, there may even be affairs. Sometimes you’ll […]
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Centennial Celebration of the Women’s National Book Association with Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author, Megan Marshall
In celebration of their Centennial year, the WNBA is thrilled to announce that renowned author Megan Marshall, will be speaking about women and their involvement in the arts and literature. Her biography Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (2013), a richly detailed account of the 19th-century author, journalist, and women’s rights advocate who perished in a shipwreck off New York's Fire Island, won the 2014 Pulitzer […]
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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.