Events for July 28, 2016
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6:00 pm
Summer Teen Fellow Reading at the Boston Athaneum
Join GrubStreet and the Boston Athenæum for a special reading featuring GrubStreet's 2016 Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP) Summer Teen Fellows. Each year, GrubStreet's Summer Teen Fellowship immerses high school students in the writer’s life of creative craft and publishing. During three weeks at GrubStreet, teens work with published authors on original prose and poetry, meet with […]
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“Get Lit After Work” With Michelle Hoover and Jennifer Haigh
Information on the Val Wang event on August 4th at 630PM.
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Gail Carriger’s IMPRUDENCE
Porter Square book is pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger reading from her anticipated sequel to PRUDENCE. Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf […]
Find out more »Deborah Levy discusses Hot Milk: A Novel.
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed author, poet, and playwright Deborah Levy for a reading from her latest novel, HOT MILK. Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother's unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, yet utterly relieved to be called to abandon […]
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Tony Award Winner Eve Ensler’s “The Good Body”
In the show The New York Times describes as "bristling with wisecracks and wisdom," Eve Ensler- author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues- takes an inside look at our outsides. From botox to bikinis and everything in between, this play explores the all too familiar body image battle females from middle school through menopause face on a daily basis. […]
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.