Jonah Lehrer Wednesday, November 14, 7:00 pm Harvard Book Store, Cambridge If you are inclined toward the sciences, the elegant volume Proust Was a Neuroscientist is a gateway drug to literature and the arts, and vice versa. Jonah Lehrer, who has worked as a prep cook, a lab tech, and a writer, pulls together what he's learned to show how creative types have anticipated neurological advances through their work. This book demonstrates that the humanities......

Many great cities across these lands of ours are excited and happy to boast when they have one arts festival ready to go for its citizens and visitors. But Boston? An arts festival? That's too easy. What we do is plan a whole slew of 'em and work them all into the same weekend. Take THAT, other so-called culture centers! Bostonist will be telling you over the next couple of days about some of the......