Events for January 6, 2017
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The Dire Literary Series
The Dire Literary Series is pleased to welcome authors Rita Zoey Chin, Michelle Y. Burke, and Emily Eckart for a reading from their latest works. Rita Zoey Chin is the author of the bestselling debut memoir, Let the Tornado Come (Simon & Schuster). Hailed by The Huffington Post as “a near euphoric ode to the […]
Find out more »Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs
Harvard Book Store welcomes author Alexandra Chasin, associate professor of literary studies at the New School, for a discussion of her latest book, Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs. In Assassin of Youth, Chasin gives us a lyrical, digressive, funny, and ultimately riveting quasi-biography of Harry J.Anslinger, the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau […]
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.