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Jonathan Safran Foer on November 11

November 6th, 2009 No Comments

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Wednesday, November 11 at 7:30pm, Brookline Booksmith
Congregation Kehillath Israel, $5
Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals
The author behind Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close returns to the Booksmith for his nonfiction debut. Equal parts memoir, detective story, cultural survey and vision quest, Eating Animals delivers [...]

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November 5 events

November 3rd, 2009 No Comments

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7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mary Karr
Mary Karr visits the Booksmith to read from her first memoir in over ten years. Where The Liar’s Club brought to life Karr’s terrifying Texas childhood and Cherry her sexual awakening, Lit lets us know how she made it out alive. Told with Karr’s signature poetic language and wit, Lit is well [...]

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October 29 Events

October 27th, 2009 No Comments

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Michael Downing
Life with Sudden Death
Location: Porter Square Books
Time: 7pm
Hallie Ephron
Boston Detective/Mystery Writers Series
Location: BPL
Time: 6:30pm

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Sarah Vowell at the BPL

October 26th, 2009 No Comments

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, October 28, 2009, BPL
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In The Wordy Shipmates, Vowell focuses on the Puritans who set sail for the New World on the Arbella in 1630, as opposed to the more famous Mayflower Pilgrims of the previous decade. Vowell intends to rehabilitate the image of the less celebrated group.

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October 19 events

October 15th, 2009 No Comments

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Porter Square Books, 7 pm
Workshop for Publishing Poets is a series of readings by poets from the Workshop for Published Poets. Robin Pelzman, Matthew Sisson, and Suellen Wedmore will be reading.
Harvard Book Store, 7 pm
Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Kahn will be talking about her new book [...]

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October 17 events

October 14th, 2009 No Comments

 
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Stuart Weisberg on Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman
Location: Harvard Bookstore
Time: 4 pm
 
Alex R. Goldfeld on The North End: A Brief History of Boston’s Oldest Neighborhoods
Location: North End Branch Library
Time: 12 pm

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Mike Farrell at the Booksmith

October 13th, 2009 No Comments

 
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Saturday, October 17 at 7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mike Farrell – Of Mule and ManDedicated activist (and star of “M*A*S*H”) Mike Farrell has served on human rights and peace delegations around the world. His latest book is a literary memoir of his travels across the United States in a [...]

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October 15 events

October 12th, 2009 No Comments

 
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An Evening With Postsecret’s Frank Warren
Please join us as welcome Frank Warren as he discusses the Postsecret phenomona and signs copies of his newest book, Postsecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Boston University Law Auditorium
 
Charles London, Far from Zion
Award-winning journalist Charles London [...]

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Lucy Honig at Porter Square Books

October 9th, 2009 No Comments

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Lucy Honig, Waiting for Rescue
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7 pm, Porter Square Books

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Pablo Medina and Steve Yarbrough

October 4th, 2009 No Comments

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The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College invites you to an evening with Emerson Faculty.
Pablo Medina (The Cigar Roller; Points of Balance / Puntos de Apoyo) and Steve Yarbrough (The End of California; Prisoners of War) will read from their work at the Barnes & [...]

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