About this event 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, … Read more
This event is a weekly virtual write-in for young adults that are interested in participating in National Novel Writing Month in the style of Shut Up & Write! Whether you’re writing a novel, blog, research paper, college admissions essay, resume, melody, poem, or just plain homework, you are invited to write it with us. No one will see what you’ve written or … Read more
We’re pleased to present a handful of interactive, family-friendly activities in partnership with the Boston Public Library as part of their celebration of the newly remodeled and reopened Roxbury Branch, which recently won an ALA/AIA Library Building Award. These activities are made possible with the support of the Wagner Foundation. Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey … Read more
About this event We’re pleased to present a handful of interactive, family-friendly activities in partnership with the Boston Public Library as part of their celebration of the newly remodeled and reopened Roxbury Branch, which recently won an ALA/AIA Library Building Award. These activities are made possible with the support of the Wagner Foundation. Beginning at … Read more
About this event We’re pleased to present a handful of interactive, family-friendly activities in partnership with the Boston Public Library as part of their celebration of the newly remodeled and reopened Roxbury Branch, which recently won an ALA/AIA Library Building Award. These activities are made possible with the support of the Wagner Foundation. At 1 … Read more
Join us for an online talk with Kyle T. Mays, author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, the first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America. “This book reveals uncomfortable truths about the dehumanizing legacies of both … Read more
This program will be held on Zoom, and the link will be sent to attendees on the afternoon of the event. On the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, scholar David J. Silverman joins us for a discussion of his new book, which provides a glimpse into Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with … Read more
Join the award-winning author and illustrator of What Isabella Wanted on Zoom for a celebration of Isabella Stewart Gardner and her love for art. Author Candace Fleming will read the story, followed by an art project led by Caldecott-winning illustrator Matthew Cordell. Please register at least one hour before the program begins at
Join us in partnership with the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library (LMEC) and the State Library of Massachusetts for an online author talk with Reece Jones. White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall shows that immigration laws in the US have always … Read more
Join the Associates of the Boston Public Library for a virtual celebration welcoming the 2021-22 Writers-in-Residence Ying-Ju Lai and Katy Doughty to the Library, and honoring the completed work of outgoing writer, Autumn Allen. All three writers will read from their respective manuscripts and reflect on their writing journeys. *** Please RSVP via https://writer-in-residence21.eventbrite.com/?aff=BPLEvent to obtain a Zoom link for this free public event. About the … Read more
Passionate about teen reads, but having a hard time getting a virtual book group going…? Join a group of teen librarians as they discuss a YA work with teen patrons of the Boston Public Library as part of their year-long #ReadingTogether challenge. October 2021’s work will be the short story anthology All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of … Read more
Join us in partnership with American Ancestors/NEHGS, the Boston Book Festival, and the GBH Forum Network for an online conversation with Mae Ngai, award-winning author of Impossible Subjects and The Lucky Ones, about her new book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics. Jia Lynn Yang, New York Times National Editor and author of the award-winning One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle … Read more