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2:30 pm
A Conversation With ANN POWERS, One of America’s Most Influential Pop Music Critics
Northeastern University is pleased to host ANN POWERS NPR music correspondent and author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music, about creating NPR’s recent list of “150 Greatest Albums Made by Women,” and about the state of music criticism in the U.S. ANN POWERS is NPR Music’s critic and […]
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JOYCE MAYNARD, Author of The Best of Us: A Memoir, in conversation with ROLAND MERULLO
Newtonville Books presents JOYCE MAYNARD and ROLAND MERULLO on October 11, 2017! This event is free to attend. In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist JOYCE MAYNARD met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked […]
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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.