November 25th is Small Business Saturday. Start your holiday shopping at local business Porter Square Book where Cambridge-area authors will appearing as guest booksellers all day. Authors include: Josh Funk, Val Wang (BEIJING BASTARD), Chris Boucher (HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE), Molly Antopol (THE UNAMERICANS), and Camille DeAngelis (BONES & ALL).
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.