An Evening WITHOUT...Giving Voice to the Excluded

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
6:00 - 8:00 PM

Boston Public Library
Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street
Copley Square
Boston, MA

The First Amendment enshrines the free exchange of ideas, but our government has a long history of closing our doors to people whose ideas or associations it does not like.

PEN New England, ACLU of Massachusetts and the Boston Public Library are marking Constitution Day with an event featuring leading writers and actors reading from the works of writers, scholars and others whose voices have been, at one time or another, silenced, or they have been excluded from the country.

The program will proceed from the post-World War I Red Scare to the present, including writers who are excluded today based on their ideology. Please join us for this very important and timely event.

SPONSORED BY

PEN New England
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
Boston Public Library
Wainwright Bank

Barbara Wallraff Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)

Barbara Wallraff is a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, where she has worked since 1983. She also writes a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column called Word Court, for King Features. Doing justice to the English language has long been a professional specialty of Barbara's. She has written for The New York Times Magazine's "On Language" column; she is a former commissioner of the Word Police; and National Public Radio's Morning Edition once asked her to copyedit the U.S. Constitution. Her name appears in a Trivial Pursuit question—but not in the answer. Wallraff is the author of the national best seller Word Court, Your Own Words, and Word Fugitives, which was published this spring.

Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.

The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.

For more information call 617-824-8820 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu