Events for September 6, 2017
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6:00 pm
Feminist gamer ZOE QUINN and the fight against online hate in “Crash Override”
Brookline Booksmith welcomes ZOE QUINN, author of Crash Override: How Gamer Gate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life. Through her story as both target and activist, QUINN delves into the controversies, threats, and cultural battles that permeate our online lives. QUINN is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a vengeful blog post cobbled together from private information, […]
Find out more »How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Body, and Brain
Harvard Book Store welcomes psychologists DANIEL GOLEMAN and RICHARD J. DAVIDSON for a discussion of their book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to […]
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Award-winning author ALEX GILVARRY at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes ALEX GILVARRY, the Hornblower Award–winning author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, for a discussion of Eastman Was Here—a novel set in the literary world of 1970's New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. The year is 1973, and Alan Eastman, […]
Find out more »The Most Important Year: Dr. SUZANNE BOUFFARD on Pre-K Education
What do our young children need in the earliest years of school, and how do we ensure that they all get it? Porter Square Books invites author SUZANNE BOUFFARD to answer her own question with a reading from her book The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children. Cutting-edge research has proven that […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.