It's Banned Books Week ! Do your bit to read everything you can, while you still can, and be glad you're in a state--Commonwealth, in this case--that lets you do that!
Events:
And to round out this week's news, we'd like to note that this Saturday and Sunday, September 30 and October 1, is JP Open Studios Weekend, and Brookline Booksmith's very own Paul Theriault - esteemed bookseller, sculptor, and friend to mankind - will have work on display at the JP Art Market at 36 South Street in JP.
Also at the Booksmith:
Wednesday September 27 7PM
JOHN HODGMAN - The Areas of My Expertise
Here is why John Hodgman rules. He is a corresponding “expert” on the Daily Show. He has been a regular contributor to Mcsweeney’s, the Believer, the Paris Review, and This American Life. He is also the author of an absurd almanac, The Areas of My Expertise - a book destined to never leave your bookcase or your bathroom. An amalgamation of charts, graphs, newspaper columns and long-winded tales of misinformation, Hodgman spins a yarn right around our necks and chokes us up with laughter. Stop by just to see if your name pops up on his infamous “700 Different Names For Hobos” list.
I think John also grew up around here.
A social comment before I go to work:
Call it naivete, but I was sickened to hear a piece on NPR this morning about a Russian soldier who was beaten/hazed so badly that he lost his legs and privates (no, that's not a military term in this case) to gangrene. What the hell could possibly compel someone to do that to another human being?!?!?!?!!?!??
~Fischlipps
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