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Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award of 1916
November 3, 2016 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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On Thursday, November 3rd, at 6:30pm, The Associates of the Boston Public Library will present a Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award competition, weighing the enduring literary merits of bestsellers published in 1916. Contenders are Robert Frost’s Mountain Interval, Albert Einstein’s Relativity, and Margaret Sanger’s What Every Girl Should Know.
The books will be defended by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, MIT Professor Alan Lightman, and WGBH’s Margery Eagan respectively. Author Stona Fitch will moderate the irreverent debate, after which the audience will vote to determine the winner of the Retroactive Book Award of 1916. A reception with the panelists will follow.
Seating is available on a first come, first served basis on the night of the event but for planning purposes, please reply for this free event at www.BookAward.Eventbrite.com. For more information about the Associates of the Boston Public Library, visit, www.TheAssociates.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.