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8:00 am
Author ALLEGRA GOODMAN reads The Chalk Artist
Harvard Book Store welcomes Whiting Writer’s Award–winning author ALLEGRA GOODMAN, author of The Cookbook Collector and Intuition, for a reading from her latest novel, The Chalk Artist. Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits tables and spends his free time beautifying the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his medium of choice: chalk. […]
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SHERMAN ALEXIE at First Parish Church
Those who grew up reading Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian will take much interest in SHERMAN ALEXIE's newest book. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is a searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author. Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome the Alexie for […]
Find out more »Truevine at Porter Square Books
Porter Square Books welcomes BETH MACY and Boston Literary District's own ALYSIA ABBOTT for a discussion of Macy's compelling, if disquieting book. Truevine tells the true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades […]
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.