Events for September 27, 2018 › Speaker
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4:00 pm
Visual Storytelling, Visual Communication
We rely on our eyes like never before: to navigate not only the physical world, but also the narrative and information landscapes we increasingly inhabit. In a fast-moving cascade of images and ideas, the author and cartoonist SCOTT MCCLOUD shares why there are no neutral visual decisions, why all pictures are words, and why an […]
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STEPHANIE GAYLE at Belmont Books
Come hear Stephanie Gayle read from her third book in the Thomas Lynch series, Idyll Hands. Charleston, Massachusetts, 1972: Rookie cop Michael Finnegan gets a call from his mother. His youngest sister, Susan, has disappeared, the same sister who ran away two years earlier. Anxious not to waste police resources, Finnegan advises his family to wait […]
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.