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Architect ROSALYN ELDER Explores the Historical Legacy of Massachusetts

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TOM PERROTTA reads at Brookline Booksmith

Blast off with children/teen Sci-fi author KATIE SLIVENSKY

HILDA WERSCHKUL’s Reflections on Masterpieces

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The Weight of Ink: RACHEL KADISH & JOANNA RAKOFF discuss Jewish Literature

Travel writer DOUG MACK on “The Not-Quite States of America”

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55th Annual Cape Cod Writers Center Conference

MADELEINE BLAIS Reads from her Memoir, “To the New Owners”

Equally Wed: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your LGBTQ+ Wedding

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Heavy Metal + Thriller = TONY MACMILLAN Reading from The Augmented Fourth

LAURIE PENNY’s “Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults”

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Why They Stay: Journalist ANNE MICHAUD on Politicians’ Wives

Award-winning author DANZY SENNA at Harvard Book Store

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Biographer MARK SCHNEIDER on Gerry Studs: America’s First Openly Gay Congressman

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The Fisherman’s Bride: The Untold Story of the Wife of Simon Peter by CATHERINE MAGIA

New Voices in Fiction: SOPHIE CHEN KELLER and “The Luster of Lost Things”

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Journalist KATHERINE NICHOLS reads Deep Water, a thrilling true story of 1970’s drug traffickers

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Poet SIMONE JOHN launches collection: Testify, joined by poet KRYSTEN HILL

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Vietnam Vet/Memoirist DAVID HOLDRIDGE on “The Avant Garde of Western Civ”

Award-winning poet FRANK BIDART reads Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

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Rolling Stone columnist ROB SHEFFIELD’s latest: Dreaming the Beatles

Ghost of the Innocent Man, a true story by BENJAMIN RACHLIN

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Award-winning author PAUL YOON at Harvard Book Store

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Local debut YA novelist LANA POPOVIC in conversation with JILLY GAGNON

Local bestseller KRISTIN CASHORE shares her novel Jane, Unlimited

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Casanova’s Secret Wife, a historical love story by BARBARA LYNN-DAVIS

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What Your Clutter is Trying to Tell You with KERRI RICHARDSON

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Freedom’s Ring, A Boston-set Novel by HEIDI CHIAVAROLI

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Journalist/author MICHAEL DEIBERT on the history of Haiti

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Launch party for local novelist JENNIFER TSENG’s The Passion of Woo & Isolde

NYC Cooking Demo with Food/Travel Journalist TRACEY CEURVELS

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Dire Literary Series with HIMES, SALISBURY and PAGE

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