Events for August 17, 2016
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Literary Pub Trivia at Trident Booksellers
Ah, summer in Boston. A time to catch Love’s Labours Lost on the Common, amble along the Esplanade, take a dip in Walden Pond . . . and find out just how much you’ve forgotten since English 101. That’s right—Literary Pub Trivia is back for the fifth summer, with plenty of questions and brainteasers on everything from Aesop’s Fables to […]
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Jacqueline Woodson Interviewed by Callie Crossley
Porter Square books welcomes acclaimed New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson (BROWN GIRL DREAMING) in conversation with WGBH's Callie Crossley. Woodson will be discussing first adult novel in twenty years: ANOTHER BROOKLYN. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was […]
Find out more »Amy Gottlieb, author of THE BEAUTIFUL POSSIBLE
Newtonville Books hosts Amy Gottlieb, author of THE BEAUTIFUL POSSIBLE. This epic, enthralling debut novel—in the vein of Nicole Krauss’ THE HISTORY OF LOVE—follows a postwar love triangle between an American rabbi, his wife, and a German-Jewish refugee.
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.