Events for October 10, 2019 › Book Talk
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8:00 am
Michael Frank presents WHAT IS MISSING at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old, […]
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Karen Chase: Oedipus in the Back Seat with Patrick Donnelly: Little Known Operas at The Bookstore and Get Lit Wine Bar
Karen Chase New Work In Progress: Oedipus in the Backseat and Patrick Donnelly Little Known Operas The lush, lexically gorgeous and emotionally complex poems of Little-Known Operas guide us through the terrain of love, sex, same-sex marriage, illness, death, and art. “MARIA CALLAS WENT TO HAMBURG” from Little-Known Operas In 1959 when Maria Callas went […]
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Author Talk Series: Wiebke von Carolsfeld and Jean Kwok at Boston Public Library
How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his parent’s murder-suicide. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in with his childless Aunt Sonya, but she is ill equipped to deal with the traumatized boy. Before long, Tom is forced to move […]
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Martha Minow presents WHEN SHOULD LAW FORGIVE? at Cambridge Public Library
Harvard Book Store and Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome renowned legal scholar MARTHA MINOW—former dean of Harvard Law School—for a discussion of her latest book, When Should Law Forgive?. About When Should Law Forgive? Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but […]
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A Night in with Joyful Clemantine Wamariya
Join Read4Refugees (in collaboration with the Girls' Night In Boston Community) for a night in to raise money for refugees. Wear your best pajamas, bring a book to swap, and get ready to cozy up with other compassionate booklovers. The event will run from 7 - 9pm and feature a virtual reading and Q&A from the incredible […]
Find out more »Naomi Klein presents ON FIRE: THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL in conversation with Juliet B. Schor at First Parish Church
Harvard Book Store welcomes NAOMI KLEIN—award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist—for a discussion of her latest book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. She will be joined by JULIET B. SCHOR, Boston College professor and former Guggenheim fellow. This event is co-sponsored by 350 Mass, Cambridge Forum, The Intercept, The Leap, and […]
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.