Events for June 15, 2017
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8:00 am
ALEXANDRA FULLER reads from her novel, Quiet Until the Thaw
Harvard Book Store welcomes the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come ALEXANDRA FULLER for a reading from her first novel, Quiet Until the Thaw. In Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota, two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and […]
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Celebrating Gay Pride with “The Boys in the Band”
In honor of Gay Pride Month, The Boston Public Library and the Boston Literary District are pleased to present a screening and discussion of the pioneering LGBTQ film, The Boys in the Band with MATT BELL and MICHAEL BRONSKI. In this 1970 film, directed by William Friedkin and based on the play by Mart Crowley, Michael (Kenneth […]
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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER at the Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning novelist JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER—author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—for the paperback release of his bestselling novel, Here I Am. How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities […]
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Drunk Crosswords at Brookline Booksmith
What's a six letter word for good wishes... Cheers! Have a drink and celebrate a collection of puzzles that everyone from wine connoisseurs to Joe and Jane Sixpack will love. Brookline Booksmith welcomes BRENDAN QUIGLEY for a free evening of fun. Come for the cocktail puns, stay for the delightful author banter.
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.