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Events for November 2019

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				1 Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth present THE ETHICAL ALGORITHM: THE SCIENCE OF SOCIALLY AWARE ALGORITHM DESIGN at Harvard Book Store Gail Mazur, Major Jackson, Didi Jackson, Nausheen Eusuf, and Lloyd Schwartz present THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2019 at Harvard Book Store Lawrence Millman presents FUNGIPEDIA at Porter Square Books Jane Bernstein presents THE FACE TELLS THE SECRETS at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	2 NaNoWriMo at Newton Free Library NaNoWriMo at Fowler Branch Library in Concord Listen to Your Body &Your Inner Voice: Yoga, Meditation, Writing & Poetry Workshop at The Arlington Center After Hours at the Bookstore with Jac Jemc at Harvard Book Store	3 NaNoWriMo at Weston Public Library
4 Sara B. Fraser discusses her debut novel, LONG DIVISION at Belmont Public Library Paul Tough presents THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST: HOW COLLEGE MAKES OR BREAKS US at Harvard Book Store Mass Poetry’s “Raise Your Verse” Finale and Reading at Porter Square Books	5 Lawrence Lessig presents THEY DON’T REPRESENT US: RECLAIMING OUR DEMOCRACY at Brattle Theatre Erin Morgenstern presents THE STARLESS SEA in conversation with Liberty Hardy at Coolidge Corner School Mike Lockett Featured at Story Space Transnational Series Presents: Idra Novey in conversation at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	6 Was Henry a Hippie? Locating Thoreau in a Changing Modern World at State Library of Massachusetts Zeruya Shalev in conversation with Lauren Groff at Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library, Central Library Carmen Maria Machado presents IN THE DREAM HOUSE: A MEMOIR at Brattle Theatre NaNoWriMo at Hopkinton Public Library Lawrence Weschler presents AND HOW ARE YOU DR. SACKS?: A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF OLIVER SACKS at Harvard Book Store View All 8 Events »	7 Karen Olsson presents THE WELL CONJECTURES: ON MATH AND THE PURSUIT OF THE UNKNOWN at Harvard Science Center Poems at the Extremes of Feelings: THE MIND HAS CLIFFS OF FALL with Robert Pinsky at Boston Athenæum Mark Haber presents REINHARDT’S GARDEN: A NOVEL in conversation with Kit Schluter at Harvard Book Store Su Hwang presents THE COWHERD’S SON. Tamiko Beyer presents WE COME ELEMENTAL. Rajiv Mohabir presents BODEGA at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Award-winning author Eileen Pollack in Conversation with Jessica Treadway at Belmont Books View All 7 Events »	8 Christopher P. Heuer presents INTO THE WHITE: THE RENAISSANCE ARCTIC AND THE END OF THE IMAGE and Andrei Pop presents A FOREST OF SYMBOLS: ART, SCIENCE, AND TRUTH IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY at Harvard Book Store Lindy West presents THE WITCHES ARE COMING at First Parish Church Jack Goldsmith presents IN HOFFA’S SHADOW: A STEPFATHER, A DISAPPEARANCE IN DETROIT,AND MY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH at Harvard Book Store Susannah Cahalan presents THE GREAT PRETENDER at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Mathea Morris presents THERE YOU ARE at Papercuts J.P. View All 7 Events »	9 NaNoWriMo at Wellesley Free Public Library Timothy Gager presents SPREADING LIKE WILD FLOWERS at Center for the Arts Armory	10 Writing Workshop with Enzo Silon Surin at Institute for Contemporary Art Children’s Storytime: Hanna Cha presents TINY FEET BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS at Brookline Booksmith NaNoWriMo at Marlborough Public Library André Aciman: Find Me at Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall New England Poetry Club: New Poetry and Open Mic at Center for the Arts at the Armory
11 André Aciman presents FIND ME: A NOVEL at Brattle Theatre Joanne Chang presents PASTRY LOVE at Porter Square Books Brookline Booksmith Book Club discusses JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	12 David J. Silverman presents THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND: THE WAMPANOAG INDIANS, PLYMOUTH COLONY, AND THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING at Boston Athenaeum Donald L. Miller presents VICKSBURG: GRANT’S CAMPAIGN THAT BROKE THE CONFEDERACY at The Historic Rotunda at American Ancestors Mike Cohen featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom Transnational Series: Translating Silvina Ocampo at Brookline Booksmith Jana Prikryl presents NO MATTER: POEMS in conversation with James Wood at Harvard Book Store View All 7 Events »	13 GrubStreet FREE Brown Bag Lunch Writing Series at GrubStreet HQ Graphic Novel AIVALI: A STORY OF GREEKS AND TURKS in 1922 at Consulate General of Greece in Boston Lee Smolin presents EINSTEIN’S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT LIES BEYOND THE QUANTUM at Harvard Science Center NaNoWriMo at Watertown Free Public Library All Necessary and Useful Knowledge: Thomas Bray’s Libraries for Colonial America at Boston Athenaeum View All 9 Events »	14 Terry Tempest Williams presents EROSION: ESSAYS OF UNDOING at Brattle Theatre Thomas Travisano presents LOVE UNKNOWN: THE LIFE AND WORLDS OF ELIZABETH BISHOP at Harvard Book Store Saeed Jones presents HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Mimi Lemay presents WHAT WE WILL BECOME at Porter Square Books	15 Arthur Isak Applbaum presents LEGITIMACY: THE RIGHT TO RULE IN A WANTON WORLD at Harvard Book Store Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Opening Night at Hynes Convention Center Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at Hynes Convention Center GrubStreet Happy Hour Writing Session Howard Eiland presents THE ARCADES PROJECT BY WALTER BENJAMIN in conversation with Lindsay Waters at Harvard Book Store View All 8 Events »	16 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at Hynes Convention Center NaNoWriMo at Newton Free Public Library NaNoWriMo at Albert J Sargent Memorial Library Louisa May Alcott’s Boston—Boston by Foot Walking Tour Niki Segnit presents LATERAL COOKING: ONE DISH LEADS TO ANOTHER at Harvard Book Store	17 Storytime with Union Square Donuts at Brookline Booksmith Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at Hynes Convention Center Tonya Mezrich and Ben Mezrich present CHARLIE NUMBERS AND THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar NaNoWriMo at Marlborough Public Library Writers Helping Writers Reading & Raffle at Arts at the Armory View All 8 Events »
18 Porsha Olayiwola & guests present I SHIMMER SOMETIMES, TOO at Boston Public Library Transnational Series presents: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra in conversation at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Lizabeth Cohen presents SAVING AMERICA’S CITIES: ED LOGUE AND THE STRUGGLE TO RENEW URBAN AMERICA IN THE SUBURBAN AGE at Harvard Book Store Adrienne Brodeur presents WILD GAME at Wellesley Books Keena Roberts presents WILD LIFE and Nicole Valentine presents A TIME TRAVELER’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY at Porter Square Books	19 Suzanne Hinman – The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in the Gilded Age New York at Boston Public Library Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky present ATRO POETS: YOUR GUIDE TO THE ZODIAC at Coolidge Corner Theatre CD Collins featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom Nina MacLaughlin presents WAKE, SIREN: OVID RESUNG at Harvard Book Store November U35 Reading by Mass Poetry at Trident Booksellers & Cafe View All 7 Events »	20 Pastry Love: An Evening with Joanne Chang at More Than Words NaNoWriMo at Wellesley Free Public Library NaNoWriMo at Weston Public Library Erin Eileen Almond presents WITCHES’ DANCE: A NOVEL in conversation with Steve Almond at Harvard Book Store Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series at Kenmore Classroom Building, Boston University View All 8 Events »	21 Christine Coulson presents METROPOLITAN STORIES : A NOVEL in conversation with Thomas Michie at Boston Public Library George Howe Colt presents THE GAME at The Historic Rotunda at American Ancestors Richard J. King presents AHAB’S ROLLING SEA: A NATURAL HISTORY OF MOBY-DICK at Harvard Book Store Rozzie Read Poetry and Open Mic at Roslindale House Martha Collins presents BECAUSE WHAT ELSE COULD I DO & Joseph Campana presents THE BOOK OF LIFE at Porter Square Books View All 6 Events »	22 Stéphane Vial and Patsy Baudoin present BEING AND THE SCREEN: HOW THE DIGITAL CHANGES PERCEPTION at Harvard Book Store Works in Translation – THE LIVING DAYS at Harvard Book Store Jeffrey Zuckerman presents THE LIVING DAYS BY ANANDA DEVI in conversation with Annabel L. Kim at Harvard Book Store Suzanne McConnell presents PITY THE READER: ON WRITING WITH STYLE at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Anne Fadiman reads from Clifton Fadiman’s WALLY THE WORDWORM at Porter Square Books View All 6 Events »	23 Children’s Storytime: Wee The People: Innosanto Nagara presents M IS FOR MOVEMENT at The Puppet Showplace Theatre Saturday Morning Storytime: Jen Corace at The Silver Unicorn Katherine Hollander presents MY GERMAN DICTIONARY with Tanya Larkin at Porter Square Books School Street Sessions with Martín Espada, Doug Anderson, Danielle Legros Georges, Everett Hoagland, Richard Michelson, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, and Lauren Marie Schmidt at Omni Parker House, Kennedy Room	24 Achayot Writing Workshop at Temple Israel of Natick NaNoWriMo at Weston Public Library
25 Harvard Square Book Circle discusses Ali Smith’s HOW TO BE BOTH: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store	26 The Gang of Six Featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom Fostering Racial Justice Book Club: A PLACE FOR US by Fatima Farheen Mirza at The Silver Unicorn	27	28	29	30 Saturday Morning Storytime: Susan Tan at The Silver Unicorn NaNoWriMo at Watertown Free Public Library Fabiola Mendez at Fair Saturday at Arlington Street Church

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