JOHN HODGMAN – Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

This event will take place at the Coolidge Corner Theatre.

Although his career as a bestselling author and correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to JOHN HODGMAN anymore. Everyone is doing it now.

Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them.

Each ticket includes admission to John Hodgman’s event and 1 copy of Vacationland. Tickets available online and in-store.

 

NYT bestselling author ATUL GAWANDE with novelist JENNIFER HAIGH

Brookline Booksmith hosts bestselling surgeon/author ATUL GAWANDE with American novelist and Hemingway Foundation/PEN award-winning JENNIFER HAIGH.  They will be at the Coolidge Corner Theatre to discuss GAWANDE’s latest book: Being Mortal.

Named a “Best Book of the Year” by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, Being Mortal is now in paperback with a new reading group guide.

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.  Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, GAWANDE reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced.  Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life— all the way to the very end.

This event is ticketed.  You may purchase tickets online or in the store.  Each ticket includes admission and one paperback copy of Being Mortal.