Events for September 14, 2016
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John Freeman and Claire Messud on the Best New Writing on Family
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome JOHN FREEMAN, editor of Freeman's, for a discussion of the literary biannual's latest volume, Family: The Best New Writing on Family. John will be joined in conversation by acclaimed author CLAIRE MESSUD. With outstanding work from literary heavyweights and up-and-coming writers alike, Freeman's: Family collects the most amusing, heartbreaking, and probing stories about […]
Find out more »Tim Murphy in conversation with Scott Heim
Brookline Booksmith welcomes Tim Murphy, author of the highly anticipated novel, Christadora, which follows intertwining characters in an iconic building in the East Village by the same name. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a true response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Christodora […]
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.