Events for November 12, 2019 › Book Talk
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6:00 pm
Donald L. Miller presents VICKSBURG: GRANT’S CAMPAIGN THAT BROKE THE CONFEDERACY at The Historic Rotunda at American Ancestors
The Historic Rotunda at American Ancestors 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston 6:00 PM–7:00 PM, followed by book signing $37.50 includes seat and signed book ($35, retail) $12.50 general admission Historian Donald L. Miller tells the dramatic and deeply researched story of the Battle of Vicksburg, the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War. The conflict opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed more […]
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Jana Prikryl presents NO MATTER: POEMS in conversation with James Wood at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed poet and editor JANA PRIKRYL—author of The After Party—for a reading from her latest collection, No Matter: Poems. She will be joined in conversation by celebrated writer, New Yorker critic, and Harvard professor JAMES WOOD. About No Matter Jana Prikryl’s No Matter guides the reader through cities—remembered and imagined—toppling past the […]
Find out more »George Howe Colt presents THE GAME at Wellesley Books
George Howe Colt, National Book Award finalist for The Big House, presents The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968, the story of that iconic American year, as seen through the young men who lived it and were changed by it. Learn more at store.wellesleybooks.com About The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 *A New […]
Find out more »Amanda Auerbach presents WHAT NEED HAVE WE FOR SUCH AS WE and Jennifer Song presents NEAR, AT at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes poets AMANDA AUERBACH and JENNIFER SOONG for a reading from their new collections, What Need Have We For Such As We and Near, At. About What Need Have We For Such As We In What Need Have We For Such as We, the speaker quickly transitions from being a lyrical poet, […]
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.