Events for August 1, 2019 › Book Talk
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7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith Transnational Series: Ilya Kaminsky and Kaveh Akbar
Join us for an evening of poetry with Ilya Kaminsky and Kaveh Akbar. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea—Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers […]
Find out more »Speculative Boston Reading Series: K. Chess and Max Gladstone
Speculative Boston is a quarterly event, featuring authors of scifi, fantasy, and horror of all kinds. Join us on August 1st! Our guest authors will be K. Chess and Max Gladstone, who will be talking about their latest works and the wonders of speculative fiction! K Chess is the author of FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.