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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

November 8, 2019 | 3:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed authors and art historians CHRISTOPHER P. HEUER and ANDREI POP for a discussion of their latest books, Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image and A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century. Their discussion will be moderated by JOSEPH […]

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Lindy West presents THE WITCHES ARE COMING at First Parish Church

November 8, 2019 | 7:00 pm
First Parish In Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
$28.75

Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome LINDY WEST—critically acclaimed New York Timescolumnist and author of Shrill—for a reading from her latest book, The Witches are Coming. This event is co-sponsored by Pop Culture Positive. About The Witches Are Coming THIS IS A WITCH HUNT. WE'RE WITCHES, AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU. From the moment powerful […]

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Jack Goldsmith presents IN HOFFA’S SHADOW: A STEPFATHER, A DISAPPEARANCE IN DETROIT,AND MY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH at Harvard Book Store

November 8, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes JACK GOLDSMITH—author and Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University—for a discussion of his latest book, In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth. About In Hoffa's Shadow As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. […]

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Susannah Cahalan presents THE GREAT PRETENDER at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

November 8, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Free

From “one of America’s most courageous young journalists” (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the 50-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine. Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare […]

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Mathea Morris presents THERE YOU ARE at Papercuts J.P.

November 8, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Papercuts JP, 5 Green Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130 United States
Free

Mathea Morais will be discussing her brilliant new novel, There You Are(Pub Date: 10/22/19 Amberjack Publishing, Hardcover $24.99). The event starts at 7:00PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2019 and is free to the public. ABOUT There You Are:Growing up in the '80s and '90s in St. Louis, Octavian Munroe and Mina Rose found a future in […]

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Laura van den Berg and Lise Funderburg present APPLE, TREE at Porter Square Books

November 8, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
Free

Editor Lise Funderburg and contributor Laura van den Berg discuss the new collection Apple, Tree. It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us—in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, […]

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