Events for August 3, 2016
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6:00 pm
Jeffrey Toobin at the Brattle Theater
Harvard Book Store welcomes New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author JEFFREY TOOBIN and WBUR reporter and writer DAVID BOERI for a discussion of Toobin's latest book, American Heiress:The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst—the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an era in American history. On February 4, 1974, Patty […]
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A Night of Poetry at Porter Square Books
Porter Square Books is pleased to welcome poets, Tess Taylor, Steph Burt, and Joseph Massey for a discussion of Taylor's new book, WORK & DAYS. In 2010, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.