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JOHN WATERS Makes Trouble with CHRIS CASTELLANI
Brookline Booksmith welcomes cult filmmaker, beloved author, and cultural icon JOHN WATERS for a conversation with writer CHRIS CASTELLANI. Waters will be discussing his newest book, Make Trouble. When Waters offered gleefully subversive advice about making a living as a creative person to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, the speech went viral. Now […]
Find out more »Letters to a Young Writer by COLUM MCCANN
Boston Public Library welcomes COLUM MCCANN for a discussion of his essay collection, Letters to a Young Writer. Letters to a Young Writer draws on the lessons MCCANN learned through nearly twenty years as a writer and a teacher of creative writing. He offers practical advice, creative inspiration, and a profound call to arms for a new […]
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.