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6:00 pm
Emerson College Reading Series: Kim McLarin and Edwin Hill
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for Popular Fiction and Publishing Kim McLarin is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels, including the memoir Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood and Midlife and Divorce Dog: A Play, based on the book and of numerous essays and short stories. Her most recent book is Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks of Life and Love. […]
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Christopher Castellani in conversation with Marianne Leone
In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of […]
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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.