Events for June 8, 2017 › Book Talk
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5:30 pm
“It’s Alive!” Frankenstein’s Lessons for Scientists and Creators
Two hundred years after its creation, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is still alive and well, continuing to shape how we imagine science and its moral consequences. Frankenstein’s cultural life reaches far beyond the book page, extending into film, television, video games, graphic novels, toys, and even breakfast cereal (not to mention a song with lyrics […]
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PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, Author of Priestdaddy
Papercuts is pleased to host PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, author of the memoir, Priestdaddy. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence—from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cult-like Catholic youth group—with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband […]
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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.