Events for January 16, 2020 › Book Talk
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6:00 pm
Ted Reinstein presents WICKED PISSED: NEW ENGLAND’S MOST FAMOUS FEUDS at the Boston Athenaeum
Reception to follow Registration is required Members $15 and Non-members $20 From sports to politics, food to finance, aviation to engineering, to bitter disputes over simple boundaries themselves, New England’s feuds have peppered the region’s life for centuries. They’ve been raw and rowdy, sometimes high minded and humorous, and in a place renowned for its […]
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Transnational Series presents: E.J. Koh’s THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE OF OTHERS at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh’s parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in […]
Find out more »Anna Wiener presents UNCANNY VALLEY: A MEMOIR at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes New Yorker contributing writer ANNA WIENER for a discussion of her debut memoir, Uncanny Valley. About Uncanny Valley In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial—left a job in book publishing for the promise of […]
Find out more »Matthew Goodman presents THE CITY GAME: TRIUMPH, SCANDAL, AND A LEGENDARY BASKETBALL TEAM at Porter Square Books
Porter Square Books welcomes Matthew Goodman for a talk and signing of his book, The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team: the powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall. […]
Find out more »Judy Foreman presents HOW PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BOOSTS HEALTH AND SLOWS AGING at Harvard Coop
Aging, despite its dismal reputation, is actually one of the great mysteries of the universe. Why don't we just reproduce, then exit fast, like salmon? Could aging just be one big evolutionary accident? Is senescence, the gradual falling apart of our bodies, at least partially avoidable? Can we extend the healthy lifespan and reduce the […]
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Patricia Marx and Roz Chast presents YOU CAN ONLY YELL AT ME FOR ONE THING AT A TIME at Arts at the Armory
Enter code BOSTON to purchase tickets before 11⁄1. The perfect Valentine’s Day or anniversary gift: An illustrated collection of love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Every ticket to this event includes a copy of You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing […]
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.