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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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200th Dire Literary Series with TILLMAN, HUDON and PAIGE

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Reading of “The Aeneid” with David Ferry

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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“Thanks To Shakespeare” with CHRISTOPHER RICKS

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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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Another Round of MassMouth Story Slam at Trident

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WALTER ISAACSON on Leonardo da Vinci

CELESTE NG Little Fires Everywhere in conversation with SONYA LARSON

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An Evening with Cherry Bombe

STEPH BURT, Advice from the Lights

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

CLAIRE MESSUD: The Burning Girl

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LOUISE MILLER reads from The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living at Porter Square Books

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DENIS LEARY on “Why We Don’t Suck”

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GrubStreet Spring 2018 Open House and Showcase

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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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In Conversation: Author ALLEGRA GOODMAN

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The Dire Series at the Middle East

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The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, Reading & Discussion with ANI TUZMAN

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