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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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Poet DAVID FERRY on Virgil’s Aeneid

Novelist CLEA SIMON in conversation with BRETT MILANO

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Award-Winning Poet/Critic KEVIN YOUNG on the History of “Bunk”

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JENNIFER CHIAVERINI on “The Enchantress of Numbers” at Wellesley Books

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Writers Read at Turtle Studios Open House

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TINA BROWN at Harvard Book Store

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Elizabeth Berg author event at Wellesley Books

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Poem as Event: A Reading

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.