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6:00 pm
Bookbuilders of Boston Holiday Party at Trillium Brewing Company
Bookbuilders of Boston is thrilled to welcome you to our annual holiday party at Trillium Brewing Company! Kick off the season of holiday festivities with your fellow publishing professionals and enjoy great food and drinks. Don't wait to preregister! Limited tickets will be available at the door, but given the popularity of the venue we expect to sell out. What: Bookbuilders Holiday […]
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Salon with Nina MacLaughlin presenting WAKE, SIREN
RSVP form available via website link. Location given to RSVPed guests Nina MacLaughin presents her "vital, vivid" (Kirkus) new book, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, hosted at the home of author Whitney Scharer! Doors open at 6:30pm, with the program beginning at 7pm. In Wake, Siren, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of myth in fierce, […]
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Jim Harriman Featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom
Jim Harriman: sometimes defies J.R.R. Tolkien's dictum that "Not all who wander are lost". He will regale us with new stories from a meandering mind: "Cuoddle Zoke, Il Duro, One Flew over the Chicken Coop, Moose Crossing, and Going for a Tattoo". All five were composed in 2019 and are guaranteed fresh. There is an […]
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Calvin Hennick presents ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO: A MEMOIR in conversation with Adrian Walker at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
Five years into fatherhood, Calvin Hennick is plagued by self-doubt and full of questions. How can he teach his son to be a man, when his own father figures abandoned him? As a white man, what can he possibly teach his biracial son about how to live as a black man in America? And what […]
Find out more »Ganesh Sitaraman presents THE GREAT DEMOCRACY: HOW TO FIX OUR POLITICS, UNRIG THE ECONOMY, AND UNITE AMERICA at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes GANESH SITARAMAN—Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and author of The Counterinsurgent's Constitution—for a discussion of his latest book, The Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America. About The Great Democracy Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in […]
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.