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ORHAN PAMUK with MARIA TARTAR discuss “The Red-Haired Woman”

NYT best-selling author ELIAS WEISS FRIEDMAN returns with The Dogist: Puppies

FRED DEVECCA Shares his Mystery Novel, The Nutting Girl

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ANDREA PITZER on One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

A Night of Chilling Stories with GARETH HINDS and BEN LOORY

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How does addiction impact family? A conversation between Granta publisher/editor SIGRID RAUSING and GISH JEN

Local YA authors take on the fantastic and peculiar at Brookline Booksmith

Poets KERRI FRENCH, JENNIFER MILITELLO, and SARAH SWEENEY at Trident Booksellers

Local author event with novelist MICHELLE HOOVER, memoirist PATRICIA HORVATH, and poet SAM WITT

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DANIEL MENDELSOHN, “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic”

Actor/author KARL GEARY reads his first novel: Montpelier Parade

Darkansas: A Novel with debut author JARRET MIDDLETON

Local nonfiction author POPE BROCK presents Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon

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Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

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ALEXIS OKEOWO Discusses A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

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CELESTE NG in conversation with ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH

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KL PEREIRA and MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR share their latest works

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Award-winning author JAMES MCBRIDE shares his latest: Five-Carat Soul

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Trappist Beer Travels: Inside the Breweries of the Monasteries!

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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.