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The 2023 Boston Book Festival street festival in Copley Square. The Boston Book Festival (BBF) is an independent nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also the name of its main event. The nonprofit was founded in 2009 by Deborah Z Porter, and aims to "celebrate the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and ...
Daniel Ziblatt speaking in 2023 at the Boston Book Festival. Daniel Ziblatt (born 1972) is an American political scientist who has been Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University since 2018. In 2018 Ziblatt published How Democracies Die with fellow Harvard professor Steven Levitsky. The book examines the conditions that ...
American Fiction is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson in his feature directorial debut.Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken for serious literature and published to high sales and critical praise.
Small Mercies is a 2023 crime-mystery novel by American author Dennis Lehane. The novel takes place in Boston in the summer of 1974, and centers Irish Mob conflicts, a missing teenaged white girl, and a Black man's murder, in the days approaching the first day of school during the Boston busing crisis. Lehane has signaled that the novel "may be ...
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During the 2023–2024 reconstruction of the park, the market is held in front of the Public Library on Dartmouth.) Annual events include First Night activities and ice sculpture competition, the Christmas tree lighting, the Boston Book Festival, and, for several years, the Boston Summer Arts Weekend. The park's central location also makes it a ...
In 2006, Porter looked into starting a Boston-area book festival, as none had been held in Boston since the Boston Globe Book Festival had been discontinued. [1] [2] In 2009 she founded a non-profit, the Boston Book Festival, to run such an event each year. The first festival was held that October in Copley Square, drawing over 10,000 attendees ...
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and ...