Harvard Book Store and WBUR welcome local bestselling novelist CLAIRE MESSUD—author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs—and Radio Open Source's CHRISTOPHER LYDON for a discussion of MESSUD's latest novel, The Burning Girl, a coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, set in small-town Massachusetts. This event is ticketed. You may purchase tickets here. This event is co-sponsored by WBUR, […]
Find out more »Get ready all short fiction, folktale, and fairytale lovers! From new independent-bookstore based publisher Cutlass Press/Papercuts JP comes the debut collection from a bold new LGBTQ voice in short fiction, KL PEREIRA. Known for their cutting-edge books, Cutlass Press takes on PEREIRA's newest collection: A Dream Between Two Rivers: Stories of Liminality. Before its publication, her […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard Kennedy School's ODD ARNE WESTAD for a discussion of his latest book, The Cold War: A World History. We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II […]
Find out more »Attention crime-novel enthusiasts! A new series is underway, and you can meet the author, STEPHANIE GAYLE, at Porter Square Books for a reading of the second novel in her crime series: Idyll Fears. It's two weeks before Christmas 1997, and Chief Thomas Lynch faces a crisis when Cody Forrand, a six-year-old with a life-threatening medical […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.