In this panel, award winning mystery writers Gina Fava, Sheila Connolly, and Sharon Healy-Yang discuss the tools you need to write the mystery that can only come from you.
Find out more »Do you love food? Join us for this fascinating talk about the history of food in Renaissance Italy with local author Crystal King. This is a Waltham Public Library sponsored program. For more information, please call 781-314-3441.
Find out more »Mary Ann Mayer will discuss and read from her poetry collection, Kissing the Shuttle - A Lyric History (Blackstone River Books, 2018), re-enacting the rise of the textile mills, King Cotton, and the spread of tuberculosis at the turn of the 20th century. The title refers to a common weaving practice, nick-named "the kiss of death," which spread TB. Poetry, research, and archival images explore the nexus between labor and disease, and bring to life the "esprit de corps" of…
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.