Events for February 16, 2017
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12:00 pm
Wealth and Celebrity in Boston’s Gilded Age: A Talk with STEPHEN MOSKEY
Until recently, history remembered Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson (1876-1948) as the wife of wealthy Bostonian Larz Kilgour Anderson (1866-1937). Their Brookline estate is now Larz Anderson Park. However, the public perception of Mrs. Anderson as an heiress and socialite was shattered in April 2016 with the publication of STEPHEN MOSKEY’s Larz and Isabel Anderson: Wealth and […]
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Gender, Politics, and Imagination- with JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN
Join JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN for an afternoon of topical discussion at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University. BOYLAN, the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University, speaks about privilege, politics, and poetics. The author of 15 books, including She's Not There, the first bestselling work by a transgender American, BOYLAN is also […]
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Award-Winning Poet, CARL PHILLIPS
The Brandeis department of English is pleased to welcome CARL PHILLIPS, author of several books of poetry including Reconnaissance, winner of the 2016 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. PHILLIPS has also published The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination (Graywolf, 2015), and Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004); and has translated […]
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Translating Cuban Poetry: Reading & Collaborative Workshop
Poets, translators, and the community at large are invited to the Woodberry Poetry Room to take part in this one-time collaborative translative intensive focused on the work of Cuban poet, dissident journalist & Guantanamo survivor JORGE OLIVERA, who is currently a visiting writer with Harvard Scholars at Risk. The two-hour event will feature a brief overview […]
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A Night of Memoir in J.P. with MINDY FRIED and CAROLINE HELLER
Join Papercuts J.P. at La Rana Rossa for an event with two local authors on their memoirs about family. Caring for Red is MINDY FRIED's moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny—an actor, writer, and labor organizer—in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters as […]
Find out more »A Night of Poetry at Porter Square Books
Join REBECCA MORGAN FRANK, JENNIFER MILITELLO, AND KATHLEEN OSSIP for readings from their latest collections. Magicians, wig makers, sculptors, perfumers, choreographers, and composers all help conjure the worlds of Frank's second collection, The Spokes of Venus. These poems offer a landscape shaped by the tensions between the act of making and the art of observing. […]
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.