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Boston Book Festival
The eighth annual Boston Book Festival, Saturday, October 15, throughout Boston's Copley Square, 10am to 5pm, with featured presenters including a special kick-off presentation by authors Emma Donoghue, Maria Semple, and Tom Perrotta (Friday, October 14, Old South Church); Susan Faludi (Memoir Keynote), Kami Garcia (Young Adult Keynote), Frank Gehry (Architecture Keynote), James Gleick (Nonfiction Keynote), Jon Klassen (Children’s Keynote), Sebastian Smee (Art History Keynote), and Colson Whitehead (Fiction Keynote). Entirely free and open to all. For more information including a…
Find out more »Boston Book Festival 2017
Celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire, Boston Book Festival presents year-round events culminating in this annual festival that promotes a culture of reading and ideas and enhances the vibrancy of our city! This event is free to attend.
Find out more »Boston Book Festival at Copley Square
The Boston Book Festival returns for Year Eleven, and this time, it's a full weekend event for the first time ever. Festival events will take place in Copley Square on Saturday 10/19 and in Dudley Square on Sunday 10/20. Saturday highlights include keynotes by Marie Lu, Elizabeth Strout, Ben Crump, and David W. Blight, as well as a full schedule of discussions, workshops, and interactive events for all ages, plus a street fair with live music, food trucks, and 75+…
Find out more »Volunteer with Mass Poetry at 2019 Boston Book Festival
Mass Poetry is excited to be a partnering organization at this year's Boston Book Festival! On Saturday, October 19th, we'll be hosting a series of events and we are looking for 2-4 volunteers to assist in staffing and managing these events between 10:30am-5:30pm. If you're interested in volunteering with Mass Poetry at Boston Book Festival, click here to fill out the short form and we'll reach out with more details!
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.