Harvard Bookstore welcomes ROXANE GAY at First Parish Church. Gay, the bestselling author of Bad Feminist, An Untamed State, and Difficult Women, will be presenting her latest book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, […]
Find out more »Porter Square books welcomes ALLEGRA GOODMAN for a discussion of her latest novel. Wise, warm, and enchanting, The Chalk Artist is both a finely rendered portrait of modern love and a celebration of all the realms we inhabit: real and imagined, visual and virtual, seemingly independent yet hopelessly tangled. Allegra Goodman's novels include The Cookbook Collector and Intuition. […]
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.