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Author BELLE BRETT Launches “Gina in the Floating World” at Porter Square Books
BELLE BRETT will read from her debut novel, Gina in the Floating World (She Writes Press), answer questions, and sign books at Porter Square Books. An unpaid bank internship in Japan’s booming 1981 economy is supposed to be the ticket into a prestigious international MBA program for naïve but ambitious Midwesterner Dorothy Falwell. But her […]
Find out more »HEATHER ABEL and JESSICA KEENER at Belmont Books
Join Belmont Books for a conversation between HEATHER ABEL, author of The Optimistic Decade, and JESSICA KEENER, author of Strangers in Budapest.
Find out more »SARAH SMARSH presents “Heartland”
SARAH SMARSH, reporter and essayist for such outlets as The Guardian and NewYorker.com, presents Heartland, her eye-opening and stunningly eloquent memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest. Sarah will be In conversation with Linda K. Wertheimer, veteran journalist and award-winning author of Faith Ed, Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. *Buy your copy […]
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.