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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

FRED DEVECCA Shares his Mystery Novel, The Nutting Girl

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

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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

Poets KERRI FRENCH, JENNIFER MILITELLO, and SARAH SWEENEY at Trident Booksellers

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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

Darkansas: A Novel with debut author JARRET MIDDLETON

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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The Favorite Poem Project Reading at Boston University

TOVA MIRVIS: The Book of Separation

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Gayly Forward: The Future of LGBT Publishing

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

FACT IN FICTION: RESEARCHING YOUR NOVEL

Release Party for Elephants Walk Together by CHERYL LAWTON MALONE

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

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CLAIRE MESSUD, Author of The Burning Girl: A Novel

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

Poets & Pints: October 11

JOYCE MAYNARD, Author of The Best of Us: A Memoir, in conversation with ROLAND MERULLO

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

Arlington Author Salon: Tainted Love

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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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Poet BILLY COLLINS in Bedford

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Belt It Out 20th Anniversary

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

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The 2nd Annual Boston Lit Crawl

National Book Award Winning Poet MARK DOTY reads with BU Alum TOMAS UNGER

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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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200th Dire Literary Series with TILLMAN, HUDON and PAIGE

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