Robin McLean’s short story collection, Reptile House, will be released May 12. Come hear a sneak preview from McLean during the Boston Lit District’s Literary Lunch Break series under the Destination Board at South Station. It’ll be worth it. Publishers Weekly says the voice in McLean’s debut collection is “spare and darkly poetic.” McLean was a lawyer and then a potter before she wrote Reptile House, which was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Story Prize.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.