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Ta-Nehisi Coates via Video Live Stream- “When Will France Have Its Barack Obama?”
What made President Obama’s rise possible? Could a similar figure come to power in France? Live-streaming from Albertine Bookshop in New York, Ta-Nehisi Coates, best-selling author of Between the World and Me, leads a discussion on French politics, race and identity; with guests Pap Ndiaye, Benjamin Stora, Iris Deroeux & Jelani Cobb. Brookline Booksmith hosts this special PAGE & SCREEN collaboration with the Coolidge Corner Theatre, This event is free of charge but requires tickets, available through the Coolidge Corner Theatre.
Find out more »Michael Chabon at Brookline Booksmith
Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s…
Find out more »Searching for John Hughes: A Conversation and Screening of “The Breakfast Club”
For all fans of John Hughes and his hit films such as Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, comes Jason Diamond’s hilarious memoir of growing up obsessed with the filmmaker’s movies. In Searching for John Hughes, Jason tells how a kid from a broken home in Chicago found comfort in the likewise broken lives seen in Hughes’ oeuvre. Following a special screening of The Breakfast Club at the Coolidge Corner Theater, Jason will appear in conversation with author Isaac Fitzgerald (Knives & Ink). Tickets are available…
Find out more »ELIZABETH STROUT in Conversation with ANDRE DUBUS III in Brookline
An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this piece by Pulitzer Prize-winner ELIZABETH STROUT. Join her and Andre Dubus III at Coolidge Corner Theatre for a conversation, hosted by Brookline Booksmith, on Anything is Possible. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family and the hope that comes with reconciliation, her newest book underscores Strout’s place as one of America’s most respected authors. Tickets are $5 or free with the pre-order of Anything Is Possible, and may be purchased online…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »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:…
Find out more »Benjamin Moser in conversation with Honor Moore – Sontag: Her Life & Work at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Every ticket includes 1 copy of Sontag: Her Life & Work. Benjamin Moser will speak at the Coolidge Corner Theatre at 6:00pm on September 25th (ticket required). Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism. Moser’s masterful new biography explores the insecurity…
Find out more »Jake Brennan presents DISGRACELAND in conversation with Adam Weiner at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Disgraceland will mix all-new, untold stories with expanded tales from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize, this collection shines a light into the dark corners of fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains, as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles, tabloids, reality shows and soap operas. At the center is the ever-fascinating music industry–a glittery stage populated by gangsters, drug dealers, pimps, groupies with violence,…
Find out more »Ann Patchett presents THE DUTCH HOUSE at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective…
Find out more »R.J. Palacio presents WHITE BIRD at Coolidge Corner Theatre
In R. J. Palacio’s bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère’s heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II, and how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend. R. J. Palacio lives in New York City with…
Find out more »Marie Lu presents REBEL in conversation with Kiersten Frost at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Meet YA author Marie Lu, discussing her newest novel, Rebel! Marie will be in conversation with Brookline Booksmith children’s bookseller Kiersten Frost. Marie’s presentation at the theatre will begin at 6PM, and will be followed with a book signing across the street at Brookline Booksmith, beginning at 7PM. THE BOOK Respect the Legend. Idolize the Prodigy. Celebrate the Champion. But never underestimate the Rebel. With unmatched suspense and her signature cinematic storytelling, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Marie Lu plunges…
Find out more »Eva Chen and Derek Desierto present JUNO VALENTINE AND THE FANTASTIC FASHION ADVENTURE at Coolidge Corner Theatre
It’s school picture day and Juno Valentine is having a fashion emergency! Her mom wants her to wear fabulous florals, her dad wants her to wear rainbow ruffles, but Juno’s not sure what to choose. And just when Juno thinks her conundrum couldn’t get any more complicated, her little brother, Finn, disappears into the magical hall of shoes! In an epic chase through time, Juno gets some help from female icons like Simone Biles, Audrey Hepburn, Annie Oakley, and Michelle…
Find out more »Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky present ATRO POETS: YOUR GUIDE TO THE ZODIAC at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Full of insight, advice and humor for every sign in the zodiac, the Astro Poets’ unique brand of astrological flavor has made them Twitter sensations. Their long-awaited first book is in the grand tradition of Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs, but made for the world we live in today. Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky are the duo behind the beloved Twitter account @poetastrologers, better known as Astro Poets. Dimitrov’s poetry has been previously published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review…
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.