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SJ SINDU and LOUIE CRONIN on Their New Novels at JP Papercuts
JP Papercuts hosts novelists SJ SINDU, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, and LOUIE CRONIN, Everybody Loves You Back to read and discuss their latest works. In Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets […]
Find out more »ANN BEATTIE reads The Accomplished Guest: Stories
Harvard Book Store hosts award-winning author ANN BEATTIE—author of Chilly Scenes of Winter, Perfect Recall, and The State We're In: Maine Stories—for a discussion of her latest book, The Accomplished Guest: Stories. This is a collection of short stories from authors such as O. Henry and Pushcart. Surprising and revealing, set along the East Coast from Maine […]
Find out more »Thriller Novelist LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG in conversation with Mystery Novelist HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN
Join Brookline Booksmith as they host LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG and HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, who will discuss GOLDBERG's The Mentor. When his favorite college professor mentions that he’s writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed. He’s eager to read the opus his mentor has toiled over...until it turns out to be not only horribly written, but depraved, and […]
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.