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The Writer and the Critic: Marilynne Robinson and James Wood in Conversation

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Latinx Poetry Reading in Celebration of National Poetry Month Featuring ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, PEGGY ROBLES-ALVARADO with Boston Poet Laureate DANIELLE LEGROS GEORGES

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Prize-Winning Poet Jane Hirshfield: Robert Lowell Memorial Reading Series

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The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy

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The Edible Table: A Food-Themed Reading at the Boston Public Library

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Independent Film Festival Boston: Nothing is Truer Than Truth, A Documentary about Shakespeare

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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.