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7:00 pm

Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis present 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive at Harvard Bookstore

August 12, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes poets, critics, and scholars KRISTEN CASE and ALEXANDRA MANGLIS for a discussion of their new co-edited anthology, 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive. About 21 | 19 The nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals […]

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7:30 pm

Brookline Booksmith Book Club: The Great Believers

August 12, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
Free

The Brookline Booksmith Book Club meets downstairs at 7:30pm. To contact our moderator, email bookclub@brooklinebooksmith.com. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins […]

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