Harvard Book Store welcomes New York Times-bestselling author GRETCHEN RUBIN—author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project—and Whole30 program creator MELISSA HARTWIG for a discussion of Rubin's latest book, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too). A book signing with both speakers will follow the discussion. […]
Find out more »Trident Booksellers is pleased to host award-winning poet CHUCK CARLISE for a night of his poetry from his newest collection In One Version of the Story. He will be reading, signing, and answering questions about the collection. In One Version of the Story is a lyric exploration of the ways human beings confront desire, loss and absence […]
Find out more »Porter Square Books is pleased to host local novelist, and best-selling author of Everything I Never Told You, CELESTE NG for a reading of her newest novel, Little Fires Everywhere. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, bestselling and acclaimed author of the six-volume novel My Struggle, and literary critic JAMES WOOD for a discussion of Knausgaard's latest book, Autumn—the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons. Boston University's WILLIAM PIERCE, author of Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle, will provide the […]
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.