Join us at the State Library of Massachusetts at noon on Thursday, February 8, to hear author Rosalyn D. Elder speak about her recent book Exploring the Legacy: People and Places of Significance, part of the African American Heritage in Massachusetts series. Exploring the Legacy is both a tourist guide and a history book, providing details about […]
Find out more »What are the challenges for writers concerned with history, identity, and politics? How do writers respond to these themes in language, form, story, and theme? In this lecture, VIET THANH NGUYEN offers some answers through an exploration of his writing and criticism. His remarks will be followed by a discussion with writer GISH JEN. Register […]
Find out more »The Friends of the Charlestown Branch of the BPL is pleased to host a presentation by DAVID DONOVAN on Henry Beston’s The Outermost House. This event is free and open to all, with a reception following. Published in 1928, Henry Beston’s The Outermost House, was written after Beston spent a long stretch of solitude in a 20’x16’ house located on […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.