Events for September 13, 2016
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6:00 pm
Michael Patrick MacDonald at the Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library is pleased to welcome Michael Patrick MacDonald, the author of the New York Times Bestselling memoir, All Souls: A Family Story From Southie and the acclaimed Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion. These two books are frequent “First Year Experience” selections at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., for which MacDonald has given over […]
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Peter Ho Davies and Celeste Ng discuss THE FORTUNES
Porter Square Books welcomes bestselling authors Peter Ho Davies and Celeste Ng to discuss Davies's new novel, The Fortunes. Sly, funny, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of a multigenerational Chinese American immigrant family. The novel inhabits four lives -- a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese […]
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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.