Ploughshares is hosting an event at Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the launch of their summer issue, guest-edited by JILL MCCORKLE. She’ll be in conversation with MARGOT LIVESEY, their former fiction editor and current faculty member at Iowa.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.