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Michael Chabon at Brookline Booksmith

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Brookline Booksmith and WBUR present “A Night of Ferrante Fever”

An Evening with the Harvard Lampoon

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Spring 2017 Open House and Showcase

Caitlin Moran’s Moranifesto!

An Evening with Novelists Cheryl Della Pietra, (GONZO GIRL), and Louie Cronin, (EVERYONE LOVES YOU BACK)

Artists and Authors of the Arnold Arboretum

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Movies at the Meeting House: Little Women

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The Dire Literary Series

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Fingersmith, Based on the Novel by Sarah Waters

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William Pierce and Sumita Chakraborty read from Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle and Soundings: On the Poetry of Melissa Green

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America’s Test Kitchen presents “Cook’s Science: How to Unlock Flavor in 50 of our Favorite Ingredients”

The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship

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Author Jessica Treadway (How Will I Know You?) in conversation with Author Dawn Tripp

An Evening with Jennifer Haigh, author of HEAT & LIGHT, and Lindsay Hatton, author of MONTEREY BAY

The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria

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The Artist: Means, Meaning, and Impact in the 21st Century

Happy Hour Writing Session

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Hannukah Storytime at Brookline Booksmith

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FREE Brown Bag Lunch Writing Series

Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta

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Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta

Choose Your Own Misery: The Holidays

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Boston New Years Eve Party 2017

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Boston New Years Eve Party 2017

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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.