Events for July 29, 2016
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5:30 pm
Happy Hour Writing Session at Grubstreet
What's more satisfying than leaving work behind on a Friday afternoon? Rounding out the week with a free writing session, of course! Maximize that Friday feeling and kick off your writing weekend with Grubstreet's first Happy Hour Writing Session of the year. Leave work behind on Friday, July 29 from 5:30pm - 6:15pm and come on over […]
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On Music and Loss
Porter Square Books is pleased to welcome Maya Pindyck and Gwen Romagnoli, authors of Emoticoncert. Emoticoncert follows intensities and absences across different bodies and scales. Broken up into musical movements, each section serves as its own composition. As a whole, the book works as a concert of intensities associated with loss, nationalism, and the slippery boundary […]
Find out more »Robert P. Watson discusses THE NAZI TITANIC
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author Robert P. Watson for a discussion of his latest book, The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II. Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When […]
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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.