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How does addiction impact family? A conversation between Granta publisher/editor SIGRID RAUSING and GISH JEN
Harvard Book Store welcomes Granta magazine editor SIGRID RAUSING—author of History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia and Everything is Wonderful—and bestselling author GISH JEN for a discussion of Mayhem, Rausing's memoir of the impact of addiction on family. In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. […]
Find out more »Local YA authors take on the fantastic and peculiar at Brookline Booksmith
Do you like fairy tales, the peculiar, the weird, the fantastical, or the just plain fascinating? Join local YA authors at Brookline Booksmith as they take on the fantastic and the strange. This panel includes PETERNELLE VAN ARSDALE (The Beast is an Animal), M.T. ANDERSON (Landscape with Invisible Hand), LANA POPOVIC (Wicked Like a Wildfire), and […]
Find out more »Poets KERRI FRENCH, JENNIFER MILITELLO, and SARAH SWEENEY at Trident Booksellers
Trident Booksellers is pleased to host a reading to celebrate the release of KERRI FRENCH’s poetry collection Every Room in the Body, winner of the 2016 Moon City Poetry Award. The reading will also feature two other writers with recent releases: poet JENNIFER MILITELLO (reading from A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments), and nonfiction writer and poet […]
Find out more »Local author event with novelist MICHELLE HOOVER, memoirist PATRICIA HORVATH, and poet SAM WITT
Join Porter Square Books for a night with Grubstreet's MICHELLE HOOVER (Bottomland), award-winning memoirist PATRICIA HORVATH (All the Difference), and English poet/journalist SAM WITT (Everlasting Quail). At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland follows the Hess family in the years after World War I, as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti-German sentiment that left a stain […]
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.