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Why Thoreau Still Matters: Lessons on Environmentalism & Civil Disobedience

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Insider Tour of the Historic Omni Parker House

Craft on Draft with GrubStreet: Suspense!

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ARMISTEAD MAUPIN Presents – Logical Family: A Memoir

FACT IN FICTION: RESEARCHING YOUR NOVEL

Release Party for Elephants Walk Together by CHERYL LAWTON MALONE

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CLAIRE MESSUD, Author of The Burning Girl: A Novel

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A Conversation With ANN POWERS, One of America’s Most Influential Pop Music Critics

Poets & Pints: October 11

JOYCE MAYNARD, Author of The Best of Us: A Memoir, in conversation with ROLAND MERULLO

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

Arlington Author Salon: Tainted Love

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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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JOHN HODGMAN – Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

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“Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award” at the Boston Public Library

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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.