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Author and Vanity Fair editor CULLEN MURPHY talks memoir with ALEX BEAM

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Comedian DREW TARVIN on his memoir, “The United States of Laughter”

ANNE FADIMAN presents The Wine Lover’s Daughter: A Memoir

NATHAN ENGLANDER: Dinner at the Center of the Earth

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In Conversation: Author ALLEGRA GOODMAN

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The Dire Series at the Middle East

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The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, Reading & Discussion with ANI TUZMAN

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Acclaimed Author JEFFERSON MORLEY on “The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton”

Novelist CLEA SIMON in conversation with BRETT MILANO

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JESSICA KEENER, author of Strangers in Budapest, in conversation with RISA MILLER

Award-Winning Poet/Critic KEVIN YOUNG on the History of “Bunk”

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TINA BROWN at Harvard Book Store

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BRIAN CLEMENTS, ALEXANDRA TEAGUE, and DEAN RADER, editors of Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence

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State Library of Massachusetts Author Talk: MICHAEL HOLLEY

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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.