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Jeff VanderMeer for “Borne”

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Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy

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RICHARD FORD in conversation with CHRISTOPHER LYDON

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ELIZABETH STROUT in Conversation with ANDRE DUBUS III in Brookline

RICHARD RUSSO Trajectory: Stories

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RAKESH SATYAL’s new novel: No One Can Pronounce My Name

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Playing the Ponies and Other Medical Mysteries Solved

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The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century

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The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family

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J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN in conversation with MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN

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Authors Stephen Kennedy Smith and Douglas Brinkley discuss JFK’s vision for America with Samantha Power and Ron Suskind, moderated by Fredrik Logevall

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DENNIS LEHANE reads from his new novel: Since We Fell

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Cave Dwellers at Brookline Booksmith

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COLM TOIBIN — House of Names: A Novel

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An Afternoon with Granta Magazine: Best of Young American Novelists

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SARAH PRAGER: Queer, There, & Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

DANI SHAPIRO at Brookline Booksmith

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MAXIM D SHRAYER – Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story

The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges & Refused to Give Up

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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, & Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

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A True Tale of Love and Survival in the Amazon

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JILL LEPORE on “Joe Gould’s Teeth”

MAX WINTER and DAISY JOHNSON at Brookline Booksmith

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Memoirs on Mortality and Murder at Brookline Booksmith

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Wilde Opera Nights: Patience

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DAVID SEDARIS- Theft by Finding

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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.