Join Us Join Joanne Chang, James Beard award–winning baker and owner of the beloved Flour bakeries in Boston, as she launches her newest cookbook, Pastry Love. Hear her story, snag a signed copy of the cookbook, and sample a pastry from her collection of recipes. Joanne Chang An honors graduate of Harvard College with a […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome local author ERIN EILEEN ALMOND for a discussion of her debut novel, Witches' Dance. She will be joined in conversation by her husband, bestselling writer STEVE ALMOND. About Witches' Dance Hilda Greer's love affair with the violin began at the age of seven, when she attended a performance by […]
Find out more »Written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church, Janaka Stucky’s Ascend Ascendis equal parts Walt Whitman and Maggot Brain, documenting the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine. […]
Find out more »George Colt presents his book The Game, a New York Times Notable Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, for its new release in paperback. From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a well-blended narrative packed with top-notch reporting and relevance for our own time” (The Boston Globe) about the young athletes who battled […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.