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Boston Lit District’s Literary Lunch Break: Michael Blanding
E. Forbes Smiley, a respectable antiquarian map dealer, spent years doubling as a map thief -- until he was finally arrested one day slipping maps out of books in the Yale University Library. To write a full-length work about Smiley, investigative journalist Michael Blanding gained access to the man himself -- no mean feat. No […]
Find out more »Boston Lit District’s Literary Lunch Break: Michael Blanding
E. Forbes Smiley, a respectable antiquarian map dealer, spent years doubling as a map thief -- until he was finally arrested one day slipping maps out of books in the Yale University Library. To write a full-length work about Smiley, investigative journalist Michael Blanding gained access to the man himself -- no mean feat. No […]
Find out more »Boston Lit District’s Literary Lunch Break: Michael Blanding
E. Forbes Smiley, a respectable antiquarian map dealer, spent years doubling as a map thief -- until he was finally arrested one day slipping maps out of books in the Yale University Library. To write a full-length work about Smiley, investigative journalist Michael Blanding gained access to the man himself -- no mean feat. No […]
Find out more »Boston Lit District’s Literary Lunch Break: Michael Blanding
E. Forbes Smiley, a respectable antiquarian map dealer, spent years doubling as a map thief -- until he was finally arrested one day slipping maps out of books in the Yale University Library. To write a full-length work about Smiley, investigative journalist Michael Blanding gained access to the man himself -- no mean feat. No […]
Find out more »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.