Harvard Book Store welcomes Nobel Prize–winning novelist ORHAN PAMUK and Harvard professor of folklore and mythology MARIA TATAR for a discussion Pamuk's latest novel, The Red-Haired Woman—a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young […]
Find out more »Attention all dog and animal lovers! Brookline Booksmith and MSPCA-Angell Boston host The Dogist author, ELIAS WEISS FRIEDMAN as he returns with his next book on puppies. The Dogist: Puppies is a follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Dogist. Presented documentary-style, every portrait tells a story and explores each puppy’s distinct character and spirit. The book presents a gallery […]
Find out more »Trident Booksellers hosts longtime screenwriter, photographer, director, actor, and free-lance writer/author FRED DEVECCA for a reading of his novel The Nutting Girl. Middle-aged Frank Raven used to be a lot of things--a blind monk, a cop, a private detective, and a hard drinker. Now he doesn't do much except run a funky old movie theater in […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.