Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
What was life like for the gangs of New York and others thrown into the nineteenth-century slammer?
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Trinidad Noir
The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series.
A Million Aunties
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his mother’s Caribbean homeland.
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Roddy Bottum — Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
2/3/26, 7:00pm
Roddy Bottum presents The Royal We.
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Kenny Stills presents Still Growing, Still Learning, Still Me.
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