Emerson College professor Jon Papernick and Bachelor of Fine Arts alum Sara Novic read from their new books. There will be a Q&A.
Jon Papernick is the author of three works of fiction: The Ascent of Eli Israel, Who by Fire, Who by Blood, There Is No Other, and the recntly released Book of Stone (May 2015). His fiction has appeared in Confrontation, The Reading Room, Night Train Magazine, Exile Quarterly, Nerve, Zeek, and the anthologies Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge and Scribblers on the Roof.
Sara Novic (BFA) is a writer, translator, and teacher. She is fiction editor of Blunderbuss Magazine, and much of her writing appears on her website. Her first novel, Girl at War, was published by Random House in May 2015.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.