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4:15 pm
Gender, Politics, and Imagination- with JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN
Join JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN for an afternoon of topical discussion at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University. BOYLAN, the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University, speaks about privilege, politics, and poetics. The author of 15 books, including She's Not There, the first bestselling work by a transgender American, BOYLAN is also […]
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A Night of Memoir in J.P. with MINDY FRIED and CAROLINE HELLER
Join Papercuts J.P. at La Rana Rossa for an event with two local authors on their memoirs about family. Caring for Red is MINDY FRIED's moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny—an actor, writer, and labor organizer—in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters as […]
Find out more »A Night of Poetry at Porter Square Books
Join REBECCA MORGAN FRANK, JENNIFER MILITELLO, AND KATHLEEN OSSIP for readings from their latest collections. Magicians, wig makers, sculptors, perfumers, choreographers, and composers all help conjure the worlds of Frank's second collection, The Spokes of Venus. These poems offer a landscape shaped by the tensions between the act of making and the art of observing. […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.