Events for July 15, 2019
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7:00 pm
Small Press Book Club: All the Fierce Tethers
Meeting in the Booksmith Buyers’ Office to discuss All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura. Read something off the beaten path! Our Small Press Book Club will meet to discuss a book from an independent publisher. To contact our moderator, email smallpress@brooklinebooksmith.com. Readers familiar with Lia Purpura’s highly praised essay collections–Increase, On Looking, and Rough Likeness–will know she’s a […]
Find out more »Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone present This Is How You Lose the Time War
The authors will be in conversation with Kat Howard. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield […]
Find out more »Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong present American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
Harvard Book Store welcomes Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University, ROBERTO SIRVENT, and activist, journalist, and scholar DANNY HAIPHONG for a discussion of their new book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A Peoples' History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. About American Exceptionalism and American Innocence Did the U.S. […]
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.