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Ghost of the Innocent Man, a true story by BENJAMIN RACHLIN

August 16, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome local author BENJAMIN RACHLIN for a discussion of his debut book, Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption. During the last two decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those […]

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ROBERT WRIGHT: Why Buddhism is True

August 16, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
Free

Curious about the relationship between philosophy and meditation?  Come to Brookline Booksmith for an event with acclaimed author ROBERT WRIGHT discussing his latest book, Why Buddhism is True. From one of America’s great minds, Why Buddhism is True is a journey through psychology, philosophy, and meditation in an effort to show how Buddhism holds the key […]

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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.