Events for November 29, 2016
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6:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith and WBUR present “A Night of Ferrante Fever”
In celebration of Elena Ferrante’s first collection of nonfiction, Frantumaglia, join best-selling novelist Claire Messud, Vogue book critic Megan O’Grady, Elena Ferrante’s U.S. publisher Michael Reynolds, her translator Ann Goldstein, and WBUR’s Christopher Lydon, host of Radio Open Source, for an evening of conversation about the elusive author of the Neapolitan Quartet. Frantumaglia invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers […]
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An Evening with the Harvard Lampoon
Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard Lampoon alumni contributors Glenn McDonald and Stuart Pizer, current contributor Rachel Stromberg, and current president Mark Steinbach for a discussion of The Best of the Harvard Lampoon: 140 Years of American Humor. About The Best of the Harvard Lampoon: A collection of the best of The Harvard Lampoon—the spawning ground for Hollywood’s elite comedy writers and New Yorker humorists—revealing […]
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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.