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3:00 pm

The American Inspiration author series and WGBH present: Holly George-Warren presenting JANIS: HER LIFE AND MUSIC at WGBH Studio in Boston Public Library

December 10, 2019 | 3:00 pm
Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116 United States
Free

live studio interview (and live stream) plus musical performance Free admission, followed by book signing Interviewer: Henry Santoro of WGBH News Performer: Americana Singer-Songwriter Susan Cattaneo The acclaimed singer Janis Joplin (1943-1970) passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul and one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. In a blazingly intimate biography, […]

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6:30 pm

Salon with Nina MacLaughlin presenting WAKE, SIREN

December 10, 2019 | 6:30 pm
Free

RSVP form available via website link. Location given to RSVPed guests Nina MacLaughin presents her "vital, vivid" (Kirkus) new book, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, hosted at the home of author Whitney Scharer! Doors open at 6:30pm, with the program beginning at 7pm. In Wake, Siren, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of myth in fierce, […]

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7:00 pm

Calvin Hennick presents ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO: A MEMOIR in conversation with Adrian Walker at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

December 10, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Free

Five years into fatherhood, Calvin Hennick is plagued by self-doubt and full of questions. How can he teach his son to be a man, when his own father figures abandoned him? As a white man, what can he possibly teach his biracial son about how to live as a black man in America? And what […]

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Ganesh Sitaraman presents THE GREAT DEMOCRACY: HOW TO FIX OUR POLITICS, UNRIG THE ECONOMY, AND UNITE AMERICA at Harvard Book Store

December 10, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes GANESH SITARAMAN—Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and author of The Counterinsurgent's Constitution—for a discussion of his latest book, The Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America. About The Great Democracy Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in […]

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