Events for August 4, 2016
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6:30 pm
“Get Lit After Work” With Val Wang
The Boston Literary District welcomes Val Wang for our fourth installment of "Get Lit After Work," our pop-up literary biergarten in front of the Cheers bar in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Val Wang will discuss and share excerpts from her memoir, BEIJING BASTARD: COMING OF AGE IN A CHANGING CHINA. Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the […]
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Do Finns Do It Better? A Conversation with Anu Partanen
Harvard Book Store welcomes Finnish journalist Anu Partanen for a discussion of her book THE NORDIC THEORY OF EVERYTHING: IN SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE. Based on her own experiences in both countries, Partanen's novel compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region. It focuses on four key relationships—parents and children, men and […]
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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.