The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, discusses Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love. About Giovanni's Room David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he […]
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.