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Boston Book Festival
October 15, 2016 | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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The eighth annual Boston Book Festival, Saturday, October 15, throughout Boston’s Copley Square, 10am to 5pm, with featured presenters including a special kick-off presentation by authors Emma Donoghue, Maria Semple, and Tom Perrotta (Friday, October 14, Old South Church); Susan Faludi (Memoir Keynote), Kami Garcia (Young Adult Keynote), Frank Gehry (Architecture Keynote), James Gleick (Nonfiction Keynote), Jon Klassen (Children’s Keynote), Sebastian Smee (Art History Keynote), and Colson Whitehead (Fiction Keynote). Entirely free and open to all. For more information including a full list of over 100 presenting authors, visit www.bostonbookfest.org.
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.