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JILL LEPORE on “Joe Gould’s Teeth”
Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. Gould began his life’s work before the First World War, announcing that he intended to write down nearly everything anyone ever said to him. By 1942, when The New Yorker published a profile of Gould written by the reporter Joseph Mitchell, Gould’s manuscript […]
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MAX WINTER and DAISY JOHNSON at Brookline Booksmith
Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome authors MAX WINTER and DAISY JOHNSON as they share excerpts from their respective books, Exes and Fen. In MAX WINTER’s heartbreaking yet hilarious Exes, the city of Providence haunts Clay Blackall - it’s the only place that holds the answer to his brother suicide. The 12 stories that comprise DAISY […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.