Brookline Booksmith welcomes MEGAN MARSHALL in conversation with JOAN WICKERSHAM about Marshall’s new novel- Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop has become one of America’s most revered poets. And yet—painfully shy and living out of public—she has never been seen fully as a woman and artist. Pulitzer Prize-winning Marshall makes use of newly discovered letters to reveal dimensions of the legendary author.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.