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5:00 pm

Love & Strife: The Life of Saul Bellow–A Reading by Biographer Zachary Leader

November 13, 2018 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Boston University Hillel, 213 Bay State Rd
Boston, MA 02215 United States
Free

Zachary Leader will read from the newly published second and final volume of his biography of Saul Bellow, widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and three National Book Awards for Fiction, Bellow taught at Boston University between 1993 and […]

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7:00 pm

VIRGINIA PYE and LAURA VAN DEN BERG

November 13, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Belmont Books, 79 Leonard Street
Belmont, MA 02478
Free

Virginia Pye (author of Shelf Life of Happiness) and Laura van den Berg (author of The Third Hotel) will be discussing their works and signing books. In these bittersweet, compelling stories, Virginia Pye’s characters long for that most elusive of states: happiness. A young skateboarder reaches across an awesome gap to reconnect with his disapproving father; an […]

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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.