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JOHN HODGMAN – Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

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Book launch for CLEA SIMON’s Boston Noir Mystery, “World Enough”

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KHIZR KHAN at Harvard Book Store

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Renowned children’s book author OLIVER JEFFERS at the Cambridge Public Library

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Author/environmentalist BILL McKIBBEN at Harvard Book Store

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Mad Men-creator MATTHEW WEINER in conversation with BRET ANTHONY JOHNSTON

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LOUISE MILLER reads at Newtonville Books

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ALEC BALDWIN and KURT ANDERSEN at Harvard Book Store

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Another Round of MassMouth Story Slam at Trident

90th Anniversary Celebration of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop

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WALTER ISAACSON on Leonardo da Vinci

CELESTE NG Little Fires Everywhere in conversation with SONYA LARSON

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Third Thursday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Word Play

An Evening with Cherry Bombe

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Brookline Booksmith: Staff Talent Show

Memoirist ANNE EDELSTEIN in conversation with JOANNA RAKOFF

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REBECCA MORGAN FRANK: Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country

Dinner and Discussion: How to get your work published?

CLAIRE MESSUD: The Burning Girl

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Rekindle Your Craft: A Prompt-Driven Writing Night

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DENIS LEARY on “Why We Don’t Suck”

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Mass Poetry’s U35 Poetry Series at Trident Booksellers & Cafe

Author and Vanity Fair editor CULLEN MURPHY talks memoir with ALEX BEAM

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ANNE FADIMAN presents The Wine Lover’s Daughter: A Memoir

NATHAN ENGLANDER: Dinner at the Center of the Earth

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The Dire Series at the Middle East

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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.