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Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award of 1916
On Thursday, November 3rd, at 6:30pm, The Associates of the Boston Public Library will present a Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award competition, weighing the enduring literary merits of bestsellers published in 1916. Contenders are Robert Frost's Mountain Interval, Albert Einstein's Relativity, and Margaret Sanger's What Every Girl Should Know. The books will be defended by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, MIT Professor Alan Lightman, and WGBH's Margery Eagan respectively. Author Stona Fitch will moderate the irreverent debate, after which the audience…
Find out more »“Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award” at the Boston Public Library
The Associates of the Boston Public Library cordially invite you to their Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award, a competition that weighs the enduring literary merits of three bestsellers, all published in 1917. Contenders for the prize are T.S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations, Mohandas Gandhi's Third Class in Indian Railways, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes. The books will be defended by poet and author Charles Coe, Michael Patrick MacDonald, memoirist, and suspense author Jacquelyn…
Find out more »City of Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges Reading at the BPL
In one of her last appearances as the City of Boston’s Poet Laureate (2015-2019), Danielle Legros Georges will read from her work, accompanied by special guests.
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.