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12:00 pm

THE FAIR CHASE: The Epic Story of Hunting in America

May 30, 2018 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Boston Athenæum, 10 ½ Beacon Street
Boston, MA United States
Free - $10

From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred--but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect "soft" urban Americans with nature and to the legacy of the country's pathfinding heroes. Fair chase, a hunting code of ethics emphasizing fairness, rugged independence, and restraint […]

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7:30 pm

MICHELLE TEA– Against the Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticism

May 30, 2018 | 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
Free

Join Papercuts and the Feminist Press at the Loring Greenough House for a reading of Against the Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticism by author MICHELLE TEA. She will also be joined by author and professor ANDREA LAWLOR, writer of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. Experience readings from the authors, engage in discussion, […]

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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.