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ICA Reads: VALERIA LUISELLI with JILL MEDVEDOW
Writer VALERIA LUISELLI’s latest nonfiction book, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, is a short, insightful retelling of her personal experience as a translator for children migrating to the United States, predominantly from Central America; her innovative storytelling humanizes a fraught and contentious topic. Join Luiselli at the ICA as she discusses […]
Find out more »Xhenet Aliu, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, & Gabrielle Fuentes at Belmont Books
Belmont Books is thrilled to have three wonderful prose writers visiting for a special event. In Xhenet Aliu's new novel Brass, a waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left […]
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.