Events for January 27, 2020 › Book Talk
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7:00 pm
William Gibson presents AGENCY: A NOVEL at First Parish Church
Pre-sale tickets (book included) on sale December 5 General entrance tickets on sale December 19 at 9am $29.75 (book included) - On Sale December 5, 2019 $8.00 (general entrance) - On Sale December 19, 2019 Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated author WILLIAM GIBSON—author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Phillip K. Dick Award–winning classic, Neuromancer—for a […]
Find out more »Kim Ghattas presents BLACK WAVE: SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN, AND THE FORTY-YEAR RIVALRY THAT UNRAVELED CULTURE, RELIGION, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MIDDLE EAST at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning journalist and author KIM GHATTAS for a discussion of her latest book, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East. About Black Wave Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of […]
Find out more »Jason Brown presents A FAITHFUL BUT MELANCHOLY ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL BARBARITIES LATELY COMMITTED at Trident Booksellers & Cafe
A reading, discussion, and book signing with author Jason Brown. About the Book The ten linked stories in Jason Brown’s new collection, A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Recently Committed (TMR Books, December 2019), follow John Howland and his descendants as they struggle with their New England legacy as one of the country’s […]
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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn present TIGHTROPE: AMERICANS REACHING FOR HOPE at Back Bay Events Center
Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize–winning authors NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN for a discussion of their latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. $34.00 (book included) About Tightrope With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an “other America.” The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of […]
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.