Events for August 15, 2016
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8:00 am
Bookbuilders of Boston: Monthly Networking Event
Bookbuilders of Boston is a nonprofit organization founded in 1937 dedicated to bringing together people involved in book publishing and manufacturing. Its membership represents all facets of the book industry: editing, design, production, manufacturing, and marketing. The Bookbinders of Boston meet every month for a casual networking event. This month the meeting will be held upstairs at the […]
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Novelists Liz Moore and Nellie Hermann
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome novelists Liz Moore and Nellie Herman for a discussion of their books: THE UNSEEN WORLD and the new-to-paperback edition of THE SEASON OF MIGRATION. In Moore's The Unseen World, a girl named Ada is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. […]
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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.