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7:00 pm

Anne Fadiman reads from Clifton Fadiman’s WALLY THE WORDWORM at Porter Square Books

November 22, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
Free

Prize-winning author Anne Fadiman presents and reads from a newly re-issued edition of her father Clifton Fadiman's book for children, Wally the Wordworm. A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration, until one day, he inches into a magical book: the dictionary. From this moment, he embarks upon a logomaniacal odyssey of […]

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