Events for February 3, 2017 › Book Talk
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1:00 pm
Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman, Creation and Collaboration: Signs and Transmigration
Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World and The Transmigration of Bodies, discusses his work in Spanish and English with his translator Lisa Dillman. Boston University Lecture Series in Literary Translation.
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Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir
Porter Square Book is pleased to host a reading with MINDY FRIED, author of Caring for Red. 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 […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.