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Memoirs on Mortality and Murder at Brookline Booksmith
Join authors ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH and KRISTEN RADTKE for a discussion of their memoirs: The Fact of a Body and Imagine Wanting Only This. Together, they work as a double-header exploring the nature of death from very different angles. Marzano-Lesnevich charts her complicated relationship with the case of a convicted murder, while Radtke’s graphic memoir examines how an uncle’s death […]
Find out more »Centennial Celebration of the Women’s National Book Association with Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author, Megan Marshall
In celebration of their Centennial year, the WNBA is thrilled to announce that renowned author Megan Marshall, will be speaking about women and their involvement in the arts and literature. Her biography Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (2013), a richly detailed account of the 19th-century author, journalist, and women’s rights advocate who perished in a shipwreck off New York's Fire Island, won the 2014 Pulitzer […]
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.