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South End Writes presents Joan Diver
Joan diver will read from her new book When the Spirit Calls: A Healing Odyssey. Joan and her husband Colin are former South End residents were featured in the Pulitzer-prize winning book about the 1970s school integration crisis in Boston by J. Anthony Lukas, A Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Sponsored by Friends of the South End Library.
Find out more »Are You Jungle Curious? Reading, Talk and Slideshow: Into the Jungle, Erica Ferencik
Join Erica Ferencik for a brief reading from her new novel, "Into The jungle," which Publisher's Weekly calls " ferocious fever dream of a thriller," as well as a talk and slide show on the Peruvian rainforest where she spent a month researching the book. She says, "The jungle is an iconic place, yet it's so distant from most of our realities that it’s often reduced to mindless metaphors: it’s a jungle out there, the jungle of the mind, the…
Find out more »Farewell to the “Old” South End Library Party at South End Library
The popular jazz & blues band of Pat Loomis and his Friends will play a “farewell-to-the-old” library concert on Wednesday, October 23 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the South End library. Playing with Loomis on alto and soprano saxophones will be his son, Antonio Loomis, guitar; Jim Dower, piano; Daniel Day, bass; and Joaquin Santos, drums. Depending on the weather, the concert will take place inside the library or outside in Library Park. We will serve refreshments. The branch…
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.