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Sorrow floats

Nina MacLaughlin profiles writer, pediatric oncologist, and divinity student Chris Adrian.

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Mark your calendars for Baker & Whitehead

In January I promised details on a “Branding and Freedom” discussion featuring Calvin Baker and Colson Whitehead. We’ve settled on a date and venue — Friday, March 30, downstairs at Lolita — and I’ll have more to say soon, but for now here’s the flyer. The 30% Powells discount on new copies of Dominion and Apex Hides the Hurt starts . . .

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Last Hardy Player pays homage

At age 101, “the only surviving member of Thomas Hardy’s theatrical group,” the Hardy Players, will recite the poet’s work as part of an event called Dorset Voices.

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Book-banning cries get weirder

The FBI has been forwarded a “Values in Education” complaint that assigning books by Wright, Morrison and Vonnegut violates laws against distribution of porn to minors.

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