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Mike Cohen featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom
Mike Cohen celebrates his birthday, a week late. Expect unusual tales from deep in Mike's repertoire, from ancient Ireland, the swamps of Florida just before a huge hurricane, and the vast depths of space. Feature’s website: http://www.coriolisforce.com/TG/Demo/MDC_Live_Stories.asp There is an $8 requested donation. Every Tuesday night is Story Space from 6:45 P.M to 9:00 P.M. Storytelling […]
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Transnational Series: Translating Silvina Ocampo at Brookline Booksmith
“Of all the words that could define her, the most accurate is, I think, ingenious.“—Jorge Luis Borges “I don’t know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.“—Italo Calvino “Silvina Ocampo’s prose is made of elegant pleasures and delicate terrors. Her […]
Find out more »Jana Prikryl presents NO MATTER: POEMS in conversation with James Wood at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed poet and editor JANA PRIKRYL—author of The After Party—for a reading from her latest collection, No Matter: Poems. She will be joined in conversation by celebrated writer, New Yorker critic, and Harvard professor JAMES WOOD. About No Matter Jana Prikryl’s No Matter guides the reader through cities—remembered and imagined—toppling past the […]
Find out more »Amanda Auerbach presents WHAT NEED HAVE WE FOR SUCH AS WE and Jennifer Song presents NEAR, AT at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes poets AMANDA AUERBACH and JENNIFER SOONG for a reading from their new collections, What Need Have We For Such As We and Near, At. About What Need Have We For Such As We In What Need Have We For Such as We, the speaker quickly transitions from being a lyrical poet, […]
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.