Events for January 12, 2017
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7:00 pm
André Aciman at Harvard Bookstore
Harvard Book Store welcomes ANDRÉ ACIMAN—author of Out of Egypt, Call Me By Your Name, and Harvard Square—for a discussion of his latest novel, Enigma Variations. About Enigma Variations: In Enigma Variations, André Aciman, who has been called “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York Magazine), charts the life of Paul, whose loves remain as consuming […]
Find out more »Searching for John Hughes: A Conversation and Screening of “The Breakfast Club”
For all fans of John Hughes and his hit films such as Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, comes Jason Diamond’s hilarious memoir of growing up obsessed with the filmmaker’s movies. In Searching for John Hughes, Jason tells how a kid from a broken home in Chicago found comfort in the likewise broken lives seen in Hughes’ oeuvre. Following […]
Find out more »Boston Poet Spotlight Series
Local poet John Mulrooney opens for Kevin Gallagher, who will be reading from and signing his new book, LOOM. Kevin Gallagher is a political economist, poet and publisher living in Greater Boston with his wife Kelly, their children Theo and Estelle, and Rexroth, the family’s German shepherd. Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics, and works […]
Find out more »7:30 pm
The Kickstand’s Winter Salon: Obsession
The Arlington Author Salon is a free reading series with a twist: each author’s presentation includes something special to tickle the senses. Music, paintings, photographs, tasty treats, fabrics, even smells. Let yourself be transported with an immersive, literary experience in the company of Margot Livesey, Steve Almond and Ron MacLean. Margot Livesey is the author of eight […]
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.