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Stéphane Vial and Patsy Baudoin present BEING AND THE SCREEN: HOW THE DIGITAL CHANGES PERCEPTION at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes professor, author, and editor STÉPHANE VIAL and translator, editor, and former MIT Media Lab librarian PATSY BAUDOIN for a discussion of Stéphane's new book, Being and the Screen: How the Digital Changes Perception, translated from the French by Patsy. About Being and the Screen Digital technologies are not just tools; they […]
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Works in Translation – THE LIVING DAYS at Harvard Book Store
Translator Jeffrey Zuckerman will appear in conversation with Annabel Kim on Friday, November 22 as part of Harvard Book Store’s Works in Translation series to promote the English language publication of THE LIVING DAYS, winner of a French Voices Award. This novel, by Francophone master Ananda Devi, follows an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a […]
Find out more »Jeffrey Zuckerman presents THE LIVING DAYS BY ANANDA DEVI in conversation with Annabel L. Kim at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes editor and translator JEFFREY ZUCKERMAN for a discussion of his experience translating ANANDA DEVI's acclaimed novel The Living Days for an English-reading audience. He will be joined in conversation by ANNABEL L. KIM, Harvard professor and scholar of French fiction. About The Living Days A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an […]
Find out more »Suzanne McConnell presents PITY THE READER: ON WRITING WITH STYLE at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
Author, editor and writing teacher Suzanne McConnell was a student of Kurt Vonnegut’s at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop during its heyday, the period from 1965-67, when Vonnegut, along with Nelson Algren and other notable authors were in residence. This was also the period when Vonnegut was writing his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, and had a lot to […]
Find out more »Anne Fadiman reads from Clifton Fadiman’s WALLY THE WORDWORM at Porter Square Books
Prize-winning author Anne Fadiman presents and reads from a newly re-issued edition of her father Clifton Fadiman's book for children, Wally the Wordworm. A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration, until one day, he inches into a magical book: the dictionary. From this moment, he embarks upon a logomaniacal odyssey of […]
Find out more »Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, author of HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: A NOVEL in conversation with Kelly J. Ford, author of COTTONMOUTHS: A NOVEL at Newtonville Books
Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though neither has any idea how […]
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.