The Arlington Author Salon is a free reading series with a twist: each author’s presentation includes something special to tickle the senses. Music, paintings, photographs, tasty treats, fabrics, even smells! Let yourself be transported with an immersive, literary experience. April’s reading “Just Kidding: A Humorous Take on Raising Humans” features Chris Monks, the managing editor of the humor site McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Jane Roper, author of the memoir Double Time, and creative non-fiction writer Amy Yelin.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.