Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award of 1922

The Associates of the Boston Public Library cordially invites you to participate in our Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award competition, which will weigh the enduring literary merits of three bestsellers published in 1922. This year’s contenders are Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows, Emily Post’s Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, and James Joyce’s Ulysses. The books will be championed by poet Porsha Olayiwola, Boston Globe columnist and author Meredith Goldstein, and English professor Joseph Nugent, respectively. Boston radio host Kennedy Elsey will moderate the lighthearted debate, after which the audience will vote to determine the winner of the Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award of 1922.

In addition, Allison Olivia Choat of Moonbox Productions, will present the winner from the online voting for the best book of 1921 will be announced by Allison Olivia Choate. The public selected from Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author.

This is a free Members’ event. Please contact the Associates office with any questions via hello@AssociatesBPL.org or 617-536-3886.