Events for September 30, 2016
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3:00 pm
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Frederick Douglass
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and John Stauffer, editors of the new Penguin Classics edition of The Portable Frederick Douglass, for a discussion of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader. About The Portable Frederick Douglass: This compact volume offers a full course on the […]
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Cuban Sci-Fi Rockstar at the Brookline Booksmith
The Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, known internationally as Yoss, for a discussion of his book, Super Extra Grande. About Super Extra Grande: In a distant future in which Latin Americans have pioneered faster-than-light space travel, Dr. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo is a veterinarian who specializes in treating enormous alien […]
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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.