Events for July 27, 2016
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Romancing a Dead Language
Join author Ann Patty at Harvard Books Store as she reads from her book, Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin. After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, aimless, and lost in the woods, she hoped to challenge her restless, […]
Find out more »Sarong Party Girls
The Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan in conversation with award winning novelist Julia Glass, about her novel, Sarong Party Girls. Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of a young, striving woman caught between worlds in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for […]
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.