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6:00 pm
The Cartel 7: Illuminati book tour kick-off at the Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library welcomes ASHLEY ANTIONETTE and JAQUAVIS COLEMAN, authors of The Cartel 7: Illuminati as they kick off their national book tour in Boston. ANTIONETTE and COLEMAN are the youngest black writers to ever debut on the New York Times list. The duo is responsible for breathing life back into black fiction and was […]
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Bestselling Author/Astrophysicist MARIO LIVIO on What Makes Us Curious
Like science and/or psychology? Come to Harvard Book Store as they welcome astrophysicist MARIO LIVIO—the bestselling author of The Golden Ratio, Is God a Mathematician?, Brilliant Blunders, and The Accelerating Universe—for a discussion of his latest book Why?: What Makes Us Curious. Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—as he explores our innate desire […]
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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.