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Twitter Humorist Jonny Sun: “Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Alien Too”
"look. life is bad. evryones sad. we're all gona die. but i alredy bought this inflatable boumcy castle so r u gona take ur shoes off or wat" -Jomny Sun Join artist, illustrator, award-winning playwright, comedy writer, and Twitter personality JONNY SUN for a presentation of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book, by Jomny […]
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Actor CURTIS ARMSTRONG: “Revenge of the Nerd”
Brookline Booksmith hosts actor CURTIS ARMSTRONG with his memoir Revenge of the Nerd. A legendary comedic second banana, Curtis is forever cemented in the public imagination as Booger from Revenge of the Nerds— but there's more to Curtis' story than that. With whip-smart, self-effacing humor, Armstrong takes us on a most unlikely journey— one nerd's hilarious, often […]
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.