Events for August 8, 2016
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Fly-Fishing and Friendship at Dartmouth
Porter Square Book is pleased to welcome Phil Odense, author of THE CONFLUENCE: FLY-FISHING AND FRIENDSHIP IN THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE GRANT. Seven lifelong friends head north each June to a remote cabin at the confluence of the Dead Diamond and Swift Diamond Rivers. What started as a single fishing trip has evolved over twenty-plus years into an […]
Find out more »GrubStreet and Harvard Book Store Present: New Voices in Fiction
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome 2016 PEN Hemingway Award finalist Margaret Malone and debut author Chris McCormick for a discussion of their books PEOPLE LIKE YOU and DESERT BOYS: FICTION. Malone's People Like You is a marvelously funny, unsettling, subtle, and moving collection of stories, the characters exist in the thick of everyday experience absent of epiphanies. The people […]
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.