‘A poet rather than a criminal’: Robert Pinsky prepares a post-autobiography Grolier reading
What inspired Robert Pinsky to begin writing the autobiographical “Jersey Breaks”? A friend who suggested he explain how he “became a poet rather than a criminal.” Pinsky reads Thursday at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop.
Author Jeanna Kadlec exposes the evangelicals, bringing her ‘Heretic’ into town for a reading
Being married to a pastor’s son but knowing she was queer was the starting point for Jeanna Kadlec’s journey out of the evangelical church, but her memoir “Heretic” goes deeper and broader into the religion’s hidden political and social impact.
Vanessa A. Bee explores belonging in memoir, ‘Home Bound,’ brings conversation to Porter
Home is centered in the debut memoir by Vanessa A. Bee, “Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging.” She reads Tuesday in Porter Square.
Porter Square Books provides a potential nirvana for some in community: writer-in-residence role
After a Covid gap, Porter Square Books will again select two writers to write articles for the store’s blog, participate in literary events and use store space to work on their own pieces.
Library hosting panel talk called ‘Central to It All,’ on Central Square and famed ManRay nightclub
Take a ride down memory lane with Shawn Driscoll, author of “We Are But Your Children: An Oral History of the Nightclub ManRay” and a panel of guests tonight at the Cambridge Main Library.
‘We Are But Your Children,’ a history of ManRay, arrives with hopes for a party at the reopened club
Pandemic conditions make for a bad moment to reopen ManRay in Central Square but an ideal time to read “We Are But Your Children: An Oral History of the Nightclub ManRay,” assembled out of conversations with 120 regulars at the legendary nightclub.
Cathy Park Hong has more than ‘Minor Feelings’ to share in a library author conversation Monday
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong comes to the Cambridge Public Library on Monday – online – for a conversation with Harvard’s Courtney Sato about her “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.”
If those shelves are spilling over, turn a page; drop off used books using this donation map
Who knew Cambridge had so many places to donate books? Well, New York-based In the Book did. It built a map to prove it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. rejected us in 1890 – but we’re cool with it. See library archives May 13
There are letters from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere and Margaret Fuller in the archives of the Cambridge Public Library, and now one from 1890 by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – and library staff is delighted, even if the letter itself is a bit of a dis.
Harvard Book Store does temporary closing after staff member tests positive for Covid-19 (updated)
At a time the Harvard Book Store has already reported struggling with sales down significantly compared with any period before the coronavirus pandemic, Wednesday brought another blow: A closing to sanitize the Harvard Square space after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19.
