Zachary Leader will read from the newly published second and final volume of his biography of Saul Bellow, widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and three National Book Awards for Fiction, Bellow taught at Boston University between 1993 and […]
Find out more »Virginia Pye (author of Shelf Life of Happiness) and Laura van den Berg (author of The Third Hotel) will be discussing their works and signing books. In these bittersweet, compelling stories, Virginia Pye’s characters long for that most elusive of states: happiness. A young skateboarder reaches across an awesome gap to reconnect with his disapproving father; an […]
Find out more »Join us for a night discussing shared themes and the craft of writing a novel with two acclaimed female authors. Though their two books are in different genres, they both use fiction to shed light on serious issued that women face in relationships and in the workplace. About the books: Better Than This: On the […]
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.