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ORHAN PAMUK with MARIA TARTAR discuss “The Red-Haired Woman”

NYT best-selling author ELIAS WEISS FRIEDMAN returns with The Dogist: Puppies

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ANDREA PITZER on One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

A Night of Chilling Stories with GARETH HINDS and BEN LOORY

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Folk/Rock legend ART GARFUNKEL on his memoir

How does addiction impact family? A conversation between Granta publisher/editor SIGRID RAUSING and GISH JEN

Local YA authors take on the fantastic and peculiar at Brookline Booksmith

Local author event with novelist MICHELLE HOOVER, memoirist PATRICIA HORVATH, and poet SAM WITT

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DANIEL MENDELSOHN, “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic”

Actor/author KARL GEARY reads his first novel: Montpelier Parade

Local nonfiction author POPE BROCK presents Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon

PATTI SMITH on Devotion (Why I Write)

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Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

Breakwater Reading Series at Brookline Booksmith

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TOVA MIRVIS: The Book of Separation

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Craft on Draft with GrubStreet: Suspense!

True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities

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MASHA GESSEN on How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

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ARMISTEAD MAUPIN Presents – Logical Family: A Memoir

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THIS IS NOT A BORDER: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

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MassMouth Story Slam: Oh Baby!

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A Conversation With ANN POWERS, One of America’s Most Influential Pop Music Critics

Poets & Pints: October 11

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ALEXIS OKEOWO Discusses A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

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CELESTE NG in conversation with ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH

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KL PEREIRA and MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR share their latest works

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Award-winning author JAMES MCBRIDE shares his latest: Five-Carat Soul

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JOHN HODGMAN – Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

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Book launch for CLEA SIMON’s Boston Noir Mystery, “World Enough”

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