Need some serious inspiration for your next road trip? Join the Tannery Series and award-winning author Andre Dubus III, as we take a turn on America’s storied byways, meandering from the glamour of Hollywood boulevards to the gritty streets of Massachusetts mill towns. Dubus will read and discuss the role of travel--from epic migrations to summer road-trips--in the American imagination and in his own work. The evening includes craft beer tastings, folk music, the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton and a rollicking book talk.…
Find out more »Need some serious inspiration for your next road trip? Join the Tannery Series and award-winning author Andre Dubus III, as we take a turn on America’s storied byways, meandering from the glamour of Hollywood boulevards to the gritty streets of Massachusetts mill towns. Dubus will read and discuss the role of travel--from epic migrations to summer road-trips--in the American imagination and in his own work. The evening includes craft beer tastings, folk music, the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton and a rollicking book talk.…
Find out more »Need some serious inspiration for your next road trip? Join the Tannery Series and award-winning author Andre Dubus III, as we take a turn on America’s storied byways, meandering from the glamour of Hollywood boulevards to the gritty streets of Massachusetts mill towns. Dubus will read and discuss the role of travel--from epic migrations to summer road-trips--in the American imagination and in his own work. The evening includes craft beer tastings, folk music, the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton and a rollicking book talk.…
Find out more »Need some serious inspiration for your next road trip? Join the Tannery Series and award-winning author Andre Dubus III, as we take a turn on America’s storied byways, meandering from the glamour of Hollywood boulevards to the gritty streets of Massachusetts mill towns. Dubus will read and discuss the role of travel--from epic migrations to summer road-trips--in the American imagination and in his own work. The evening includes craft beer tastings, folk music, the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton and a rollicking book talk.…
Find out more »The Mass Poetry Festival, now in it's 10th year, returns to downtown Salem May 4th through 6th. As always, the festival is priced for the poet's pocketbook at only $30 a ticket and features panels like "Fathers, Present and Absent: Encounters, Enigmas, and Elegies" and "What Big Words You Have: Using Fairytales in Your Poetry." Their Small Press and Literary Fair will take place on Saturday, May 5th from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., located along the Pedestrian Mall between Peabody…
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.