Events for September 30, 2019 › Book Talk
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6:00 pm
Jake Brennan presents DISGRACELAND in conversation with Adam Weiner at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Disgraceland will mix all-new, untold stories with expanded tales from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize, this collection shines a light into the dark corners of fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains, as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles, […]
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Leslie Jamison presents MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN: ESSAYS in conversation with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us fourteen new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. In its kaleidoscopic sweep, Make It Scream, Make It Burn creates a profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of […]
Find out more »Lauren Shippen presents THE INFINITE NOISE with WROB Program Director Alexander Danner at Porter Square Books
Author and podcaster Lauren Shippen appears in conversation with local writer and sound designer Alexander Danner to discuss Shippen's new book, The Infinite Noise: a stunning, original debut novel based on her wildly popular and award-winning podcast The Bright Sessions. Caleb Michaels is a sixteen-year-old champion running back. Other than that his life is pretty normal. But when Caleb […]
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.