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6:00 pm

Dr. ANDREW BUDSON, co-author of Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and What to Do About It

September 28, 2017 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116 United States

The Boston Public Library hosts Dr. ANDREW BUDSON author of Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory. In this book, coauthored by MAUREEN K. O'CONNOR Psy.D, Dr. BUDSON distinguishes between normal and abnormal memory failure, how to get your memory evaluated and how treating and strengthening your memory can help you plan for your future. Educated at […]

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7:00 pm

DANIEL MENDELSOHN, “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic”

September 28, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning memoirist and critic DANIEL MENDELSOHN (The Lost) for a discussion of his latest book, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is […]

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Darkansas: A Novel with debut author JARRET MIDDLETON

September 28, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 338 Newbury Street
Boston, MA United States
Free

Trident Booksellers is pleased to host author JARRET MIDDLETON for a reading of his debut novel, Darkansas. Jordan is a country musician living in the shadow of his father, bluegrass legend Walker Bayne. A man who has made a lifetime of poor decisions, Jordan bounces between dive bars, accruing women and drinking himself to the brink […]

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Local nonfiction author POPE BROCK presents Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon

September 28, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
Free

Porter Square Books welcomes local nonfiction author POPE BROCK, who has published Indiana Gothic (about the murder of his great-grandfather), and now, Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon—a work of what might be called speculative nonfiction. Now that we've pretty much ruined planet Earth—no big secret—science tells us the human race could be doomed. Well, not all […]

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Actor/author KARL GEARY reads his first novel: Montpelier Parade

September 28, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
Free

Brookline Booksmith hosts novelist KARL GEARY for his first-time novel, Montpelier Parade. The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world.  Working on the garden with his father one Saturday in Dublin, Sonny is full of curiosity.  Then the back door eases open and she comes down […]

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7:30 pm

PATTI SMITH on Devotion (Why I Write)

September 28, 2017 | 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
$30

Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned performer and artist PATTI SMITH—author of the National Book Award–winning memoir Just Kids and the New York Times best seller M Train—for a discussion of her latest book, Devotion (Why I Write). A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, […]

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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.