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Alan Wolfe discusses his latest book, At Home in Exile. Free and open to the public. Since the beginnings of Zionism, many Jewish thinkers have considered it close to heresy to validate life in the Diaspora. But Alan Wolfe argues that Jews should take pride in their Diasporic tradition. Despite the discrimination Jews have experienced in exile, for the first time in history, it is possible for Jews to lead secure lives in states in which they are a minority. Wolfe…
Find out more »Alan Wolfe
Alan Wolfe discusses his latest book, At Home in Exile. Free and open to the public. Since the beginnings of Zionism, many Jewish thinkers have considered it close to heresy to validate life in the Diaspora. But Alan Wolfe argues that Jews should take pride in their Diasporic tradition. Despite the discrimination Jews have experienced in exile, for the first time in history, it is possible for Jews to lead secure lives in states in which they are a minority. Wolfe…
Find out more »Alan Wolfe
Alan Wolfe discusses his latest book, At Home in Exile. Free and open to the public. Since the beginnings of Zionism, many Jewish thinkers have considered it close to heresy to validate life in the Diaspora. But Alan Wolfe argues that Jews should take pride in their Diasporic tradition. Despite the discrimination Jews have experienced in exile, for the first time in history, it is possible for Jews to lead secure lives in states in which they are a minority. Wolfe…
Find out more »Alan Wolfe
Alan Wolfe discusses his latest book, At Home in Exile. Free and open to the public. Since the beginnings of Zionism, many Jewish thinkers have considered it close to heresy to validate life in the Diaspora. But Alan Wolfe argues that Jews should take pride in their Diasporic tradition. Despite the discrimination Jews have experienced in exile, for the first time in history, it is possible for Jews to lead secure lives in states in which they are a minority. Wolfe…
Find out more »Laura Hankin reads from The Summertime Girls
Harvard Book Store welcomes debut novelist LAURA HANKIN for a reading from her first novel, The Summertime Girls. When two lifelong friends reunite for one more summer in small-town Maine, they must bridge the gap caused by the dreams and secrets that tore them apart . . . Ally Morris and Beth Abbott were beyond inseparable. From the very first time they met, the girls knew they’d found a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. But sometimes, life can’t help but get in the…
Find out more »Laura Hankin reads from The Summertime Girls
Harvard Book Store welcomes debut novelist LAURA HANKIN for a reading from her first novel, The Summertime Girls. When two lifelong friends reunite for one more summer in small-town Maine, they must bridge the gap caused by the dreams and secrets that tore them apart . . . Ally Morris and Beth Abbott were beyond inseparable. From the very first time they met, the girls knew they’d found a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. But sometimes, life can’t help but get in the…
Find out more »Laura Hankin reads from The Summertime Girls
Harvard Book Store welcomes debut novelist LAURA HANKIN for a reading from her first novel, The Summertime Girls. When two lifelong friends reunite for one more summer in small-town Maine, they must bridge the gap caused by the dreams and secrets that tore them apart . . . Ally Morris and Beth Abbott were beyond inseparable. From the very first time they met, the girls knew they’d found a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. But sometimes, life can’t help but get in the…
Find out more »Laura Hankin reads from The Summertime Girls
Harvard Book Store welcomes debut novelist LAURA HANKIN for a reading from her first novel, The Summertime Girls. When two lifelong friends reunite for one more summer in small-town Maine, they must bridge the gap caused by the dreams and secrets that tore them apart . . . Ally Morris and Beth Abbott were beyond inseparable. From the very first time they met, the girls knew they’d found a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. But sometimes, life can’t help but get in the…
Find out more »Naomi J. Williams reads from Landfalls: A Novel
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome Pushcart Prize winner NAOMI J. WILLIAMS for a reading from her debut novel, Landfalls. In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France. Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful…
Find out more »Naomi J. Williams reads from Landfalls: A Novel
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome Pushcart Prize winner NAOMI J. WILLIAMS for a reading from her debut novel, Landfalls. In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France. Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful…
Find out more »Naomi J. Williams reads from Landfalls: A Novel
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome Pushcart Prize winner NAOMI J. WILLIAMS for a reading from her debut novel, Landfalls. In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France. Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful…
Find out more »Naomi J. Williams reads from Landfalls: A Novel
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome Pushcart Prize winner NAOMI J. WILLIAMS for a reading from her debut novel, Landfalls. In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France. Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful…
Find out more »Alex Dolan reads from The Euthanist
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist ALEX DOLAN for a reading from his book The Euthanist. A young woman helps to end the lives of people with terminal diseases, her reasons her own. When she helps the wrong person, she will be roped into a plot to gain vengeance on behalf of dozens. Her journey will make her question everything she ever thought she knew about herself. And the last life she ends may be her own. They know…
Find out more »Alex Dolan reads from The Euthanist
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist ALEX DOLAN for a reading from his book The Euthanist. A young woman helps to end the lives of people with terminal diseases, her reasons her own. When she helps the wrong person, she will be roped into a plot to gain vengeance on behalf of dozens. Her journey will make her question everything she ever thought she knew about herself. And the last life she ends may be her own. They know…
Find out more »Alex Dolan reads from The Euthanist
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist ALEX DOLAN for a reading from his book The Euthanist. A young woman helps to end the lives of people with terminal diseases, her reasons her own. When she helps the wrong person, she will be roped into a plot to gain vengeance on behalf of dozens. Her journey will make her question everything she ever thought she knew about herself. And the last life she ends may be her own. They know…
Find out more »Alex Dolan reads from The Euthanist
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist ALEX DOLAN for a reading from his book The Euthanist. A young woman helps to end the lives of people with terminal diseases, her reasons her own. When she helps the wrong person, she will be roped into a plot to gain vengeance on behalf of dozens. Her journey will make her question everything she ever thought she knew about herself. And the last life she ends may be her own. They know…
Find out more »New Voices in Fiction: Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist Sunil Yapa for a reading from his book, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, set amid the heated conflict of Seattle's 1999 WTO protests. Column McCann calls it "a symphony of a novel...which finds, at its core, a deep and abiding regard for the music of what happens....Yapa strives forward with a literary molotov cocktail to light up the dark." Bustle Magazine's review says that this new novel…
Find out more »A. Igoni Barrett reading at Harvard Book Store
A. Igoni Barrett will read from his new novel, BLACKASS (Graywolf Press, March 2016), on Tuesday, March 1st at 7:00 PM at Harvard Book Store. This event is free and open to the public. “With this hilarious, nail-pointed satire, a devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart, Barrett joins the ranks of the great tricksters: Alain Mabanckou, Joseph Heller, and Charles Johnson.”—Marlon James
Find out more »Mary Roach discusses Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
What's the science that keeps human beings intact, awake, sane and uninfested during the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war? Join bestselling author Mary Roach, along with journalist Deborah Blum, as she discusses her latest book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. Sponsored by Harvard Book Store. Books will be available for signing.
Find out more »Annie Proulx reads from her latest novel at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes Annie Proulx, award-winning author of "Brokeback Mountain," for a reading from her latest novel, Barkskins, an epic story about the taking down of the world's forests. "Annie Proulx's Barkskins is remarkable not just for its length, but for its scope and ambition. It's a monumental achievement, one that will be remembered as her finest work."- Publishers Weekly. Tickets to this event are $5 each and include a book signing.
Find out more »Alain de Botton on “The Course of Love”
Alain de Botton recently wrote in the New York Times "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person." Join him at the Brattle Theater, in an event sponsored by Harvard Book Store, as he reads from his latest work, THE COURSE OF LOVE: A NOVEL. Tickets to this event are $5 and include a book signing.
Find out more »Jeffrey Toobin at the Brattle Theater
Harvard Book Store welcomes New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author JEFFREY TOOBIN and WBUR reporter and writer DAVID BOERI for a discussion of Toobin's latest book, American Heiress:The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst—the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an era in American history. On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation…
Find out more »Lawrence Wright at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright for a discussion of his latest book, The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State. With The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of…
Find out more »Caitlin Moran’s Moranifesto!
Harvard Book Store welcomes back London Times columnist Caitlin Moran, the bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology, for a discussion of her latest book, Moranifesto. Ms. Moran will be joined in conversation by Boston Globe columnist Merideth Goldstein. About Moranifesto: From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive to this book. When Caitlin Moran…
Find out more »America’s Test Kitchen presents “Cook’s Science: How to Unlock Flavor in 50 of our Favorite Ingredients”
Harvard Book Store welcomes back the cast of America's Test Kitchen (ATK) for their annual ATK event at the Brattle Theatre. Jack Bishop, Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Lisa McManus, and Adam Ried will present ATK's latest cookbooks, including the evening's featured title, Cook's Science: How to Unlock Flavor in 50 of our Favorite Ingredients—the all-new companion to the New York Times–bestselling The Science of Good Cooking, highlighting 50 of favorite ingredients and the science behind them. About Cook's Science: Each chapter explains the science behind one of…
Find out more »JOHN DANIELLE (Wolf in the White Van) reads from his latest at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes bestselling author of Wolf in White Van JOHN DARNIELLE—writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist for the band the Mountain Goats—for a reading from his latest novel, Universal Harvester. About Universal Harvester: Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa—a small town in the center of the state, the first “a” in Nevada pronounced “ay.” This is the late…
Find out more »YUVAL NOAH HARARI on A Brief History of Tomorrow
Brattle Theatre welcomes the bestselling author of Sapiens YUVAL NOAH HARARI for a discussion of his latest book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harari will be joined in conversation by Harvard's MICHAEL SANDEL, author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? and What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. This event is co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of…
Find out more »CAMILLE PAGLIA
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, CAMILLE PAGLIA has remained one of feminism’s most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she’s calling for equal opportunity for American women (years before the founding of the National Organization for Women), championing a more discerning standard of beauty that goes beyond plastic surgery’s quest for eternal youth, lauding the liberating…
Find out more »RICHARD FORD in conversation with CHRISTOPHER LYDON
Harvard Book Store welcomes RICHARD FORD to talk about his latest book, Between Them: Remembering My Parents How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? FORD’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman—were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived “alone together” on the road, traveling throughout the South.…
Find out more »RICHARD RUSSO Trajectory: Stories
Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls—is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In "Horseman," a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer: "And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing…
Find out more »DENNIS LEHANE reads from his new novel: Since We Fell
Harvard Book Store welcomes Dennis Lehane to talk about his new book, Since We Fell. Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel’s marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and…
Find out more »COLM TOIBIN — House of Names: A Novel
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her children. In House of Names, Tóibín brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra’s thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He brilliantly inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth’s most powerful villains to reveal the love, lust, and pain she…
Find out more »JILL LEPORE on “Joe Gould’s Teeth”
Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. Gould began his life’s work before the First World War, announcing that he intended to write down nearly everything anyone ever said to him. By 1942, when The New Yorker published a profile of Gould written by the reporter Joseph Mitchell, Gould’s manuscript had grown to more than nine million words. But when Gould died in 1957, in a mental hospital, the manuscript was nowhere to be found.…
Find out more »JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER at the Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning novelist JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER—author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—for the paperback release of his bestselling novel, Here I Am. How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years—a…
Find out more »Twitter Humorist Jonny Sun: “Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Alien Too”
"look. life is bad. evryones sad. we're all gona die. but i alredy bought this inflatable boumcy castle so r u gona take ur shoes off or wat" -Jomny Sun Join artist, illustrator, award-winning playwright, comedy writer, and Twitter personality JONNY SUN for a presentation of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book, by Jomny Sun (the alien). Through this story of a lost alien finding acceptance among the creatures of Earth, we will all learn how to be a…
Find out more »CLAIRE MESSUD in conversation with WBUR’s CHRISTOPHER LYDON
Harvard Book Store and WBUR welcome local bestselling novelist CLAIRE MESSUD—author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs—and Radio Open Source's CHRISTOPHER LYDON for a discussion of MESSUD's latest novel, The Burning Girl, a coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, set in small-town Massachusetts. This event is ticketed. You may purchase tickets here. This event is co-sponsored by WBUR, Boston's NPR News Station.
Find out more »How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Body, and Brain
Harvard Book Store welcomes psychologists DANIEL GOLEMAN and RICHARD J. DAVIDSON for a discussion of their book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, DANIEL GOLEMAN and RICHARD…
Find out more »SALMAN RUSHDIE with his latest novel, The Golden House
Harvard Book Store and the Mahindra Humanities Center welcome internationally renowned author SALMAN RUSHDIE for a discussion of his latest novel, The Golden House—a modern American epic that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities, set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture. Mr. Rushdie will be joined in conversation by HOMI K. BHABHA, Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up…
Find out more »NYT best-selling author GRETCHEN RUBIN in conversation with MELISSA HARTWIG
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. Please note that each ticket comes with a copy of Rubin's The Four Tendencies. More than 600,000 people have taken her online quiz, and managers, doctors,…
Find out more »A Column of Fire, the latest in the Kingsbridge series
International bestselling author KEN FOLLETT has enthralled millions of readers with the first two books of his Kingsbridge series, The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. The saga now continues with Follett’s magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. Harvard Book Store welcomes FOLLETT for a discussion of his latest novel. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious divide sweeping across the country, Ned goes to work…
Find out more »MASHA GESSEN on How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome award-winning journalist MASHA GESSEN—author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy—for a discussion of her latest book, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. This event is ticketed. About the book: Putin’s bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her “fearless indictment of the most powerful…
Find out more »ARMISTEAD MAUPIN Presents – Logical Family: A Memoir
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning novelist ARMISTEAD MAUPIN—author of the nine-volume Tales of the City series—for a reading from his debut memoir, Logical Family. Tickets: Tickets only are $5 + $1.27 fee Tickets (bundled with book) are $27.95 + $2.57 fee Doors close at 5:30pm! -- This event includes a book signing. About Logical Family: A Memoir In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San…
Find out more »Author/environmentalist BILL McKIBBEN at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated author and environmentalist BILL McKIBBEN—founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement—for a discussion of his debut novel, Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance. This event is co-sponsored by 350 Mass. Tickets: $5 for only entrance into the event itself; $23.75 for the book & entrance into the event. Tickets are to be purchased online. Doors close at 5:30PM. In Radio Free Vermont, BILL McKIBBEN entertains and expands upon an idea that's become more popular than ever—seceding…
Find out more »Mad Men-creator MATTHEW WEINER in conversation with BRET ANTHONY JOHNSTON
Harvard Book Store welcomes Emmy Award–winning writer, director, and producer MATTHEW WEINER for a discussion of his debut novel, Heather, the Totality. He will be joined in conversation by Bret Anthony Johnston, author of the bestselling novel Remember Me Like This. About Heather, the Totality: A collision course between a privileged family and a dangerous young man, Heather, The Totality is a chilling debut novel by the creator of Mad Men, MATTHEW WEINER. Tickets: $26.25 for the book & entrance…
Find out more »Independent Film Festival Boston: Nothing is Truer Than Truth, A Documentary about Shakespeare
NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH will premiere at the Independent Film Festival Boston. Please help us celebrate at the historic Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square on SUNDAY APRIL 29TH at 1:00 P.M. There will be a post-screening Q&A session with director Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, and cast and crew from the film, followed by a reception. Festival badges and tickets are available at IFFB.org. NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH introduces Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the…
Find out more »STEPHEN GREENBLATT shares his latest book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics.
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author STEPHEN GREENBLATT for a discussion of his latest book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. This is a ticketed event. About Tyrant As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt…
Find out more »JOHN HODGEMAN presents Vacationland
Harvard Book Store welcomes writer, comedian, and Brookline-native JOHN HODGMAN for a discussion of the paperback release of his latest book, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches. This event is ticketed. About Vacationland Although his career as a bestselling author and 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…
Find out more »Tyrant, Show Thy Face – A Benefit for Actor’s Shakespeare Project
How does a truly disastrous leader – a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant – come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant’s soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakespeare has no peer. In the new book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, Pulitzer-prize winning author and Shakespeare Scholar STEPHEN GREENBLATT examines the themes of power and tyranny in some of Shakespeare’s most…
Find out more »CAITLIN MORAN in conversation with MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN
Harvard Book Store welcomes bestselling author CAITLIN MORAN for a discussion of her latest novel, How to Be Famous, a sequel to her acclaimed debut novel, How to Build a Girl. She will be joined in conversation by The Boston Globe Love Letters columnist MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN—author of Can't Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist. This is a ticketed event.
Find out more »Linda Holmes presents Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel at Harvard Bookstore
Harvard Book Store welcomes Linda Holmes—pop culture correspondent for NPR and host of the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour—for a discussion of her debut novel, Evvie Drake Starts Over. She will be joined in conversation by librarian and cultural advisory savant MARGARET H. WILLISON. About Evvie Drake Starts Over In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even…
Find out more »Richard Russo presents CHANCES ARE . . . : A NOVEL at Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author RICHARD RUSSO for a discussion of his latest novel, Chances Are... About Chances Are... One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today: Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental…
Find out more »Stephen Chbosky presents IMAGINARY FRIEND: A NOVEL at Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes STEPHEN CHBOSKY—the beloved, bestselling author of Perks of Being a Wallflower—for a discussion of his highly anticipated second novel, Imaginary Friend. About Imaginary Friend We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with Christopher at her side. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit…
Find out more »Gail Collins presents NO STOPPING US NOW: THE ADVENTURES OF OLDER WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY at Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes esteemed New York Times columnist GAIL COLLINS for a discussion of her new book, No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. About No Stopping Us Now "You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad—for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it—and women have been on the front lines…
Find out more »Lawrence Lessig presents THEY DON’T REPRESENT US: RECLAIMING OUR DEMOCRACY at Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store and Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome renowned author and Harvard law professor LAWRENCE LESSIG for a discussion of his latest book, They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy. About They Don't Represent Us America’s democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flaw—unrepresentativeness—has detached our government from the people. And as a people, our fractured partisanship and ignorance on critical issues drives our leaders to stake out ever more extreme positions. In They Don’t…
Find out more »Carmen Maria Machado presents IN THE DREAM HOUSE: A MEMOIR at Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes CARMEN MARIA MACHADO—the bestselling, award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties—for a discussion of her highly anticipated new memoir, In the Dream House. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. About In the Dream House In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with…
Find out more »André Aciman presents FIND ME: A NOVEL at Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed author ANDRÉ ACIMAN for a reading from his latest novel, Find Me—the sequel to his beloved worldwide bestseller, Call Me By Your Name. About Find Me No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The…
Find out more »Terry Tempest Williams presents EROSION: ESSAYS OF UNDOING at Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned writer and conservationist TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS for a discussion of her latest book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing. About Erosion Terry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, fervent activist, and stirring writer, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays, Williams…
Find out more »Steve Inskeep presents AN IMPERFECT UNION:HOW JESSIE AND JOHN FREMONT MAPPED THE WEST, INVENTED CELEBRITY, AND HELPED CAUSE THE CIVIL WAR at Brattle Theatre
Harvard Book Store welcomes STEVE INSKEEP—celebrated reporter and cohost of NPR's Morning Edition and Up First—for a discussion of his latest book, Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War. $34.00 (book included) - On Sale December 5, 2019 $6.00 (general entrance) - On Sale December 19, 2019 About Imperfect Union John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when…
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.