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6:30 pm
Poet DAVID FERRY on Virgil’s Aeneid
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning poet and translator DAVID FERRY for a discussion of his translation of Virgil's Aeneid. He will be joined in conversation by award-winning poet and critic, former poet laureate, and Boston University professor ROBERT PINSKY. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. This event is free and also includes a book […]
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Novelist CLEA SIMON in conversation with BRETT MILANO
Brookline Booksmith presents CLEA SIMON, as she discusses her novel, World Enough, with BRETT MILANO. This event is free and open to the public! The camaraderie of Boston’s club scene hides something darker. A night out to hear some music, a band she used to love; but when onetime rock critic Tara Winton accepts an […]
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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.