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Craft on Draft: Creating Kick-ass Characters
Join novelists E. B. Moore, Jennie Wood, and Kate Racculia for a reading and discussion of how they created their unforgettable characters, trait by trait, from first draft to final. Want to get in on the action? Bring a character-revealing page (250 words max) from your own novel or short story. One lucky audience member will have their entry read aloud and discussed by the authors. The winner receives a free GrubStreet pint glass and a drink—as well as possible…
Find out more »Craft on Draft: Creating Kick-ass Characters
Join novelists E. B. Moore, Jennie Wood, and Kate Racculia for a reading and discussion of how they created their unforgettable characters, trait by trait, from first draft to final. Want to get in on the action? Bring a character-revealing page (250 words max) from your own novel or short story. One lucky audience member will have their entry read aloud and discussed by the authors. The winner receives a free GrubStreet pint glass and a drink—as well as possible…
Find out more »Craft on Draft: Creating Kick-ass Characters
Join novelists E. B. Moore, Jennie Wood, and Kate Racculia for a reading and discussion of how they created their unforgettable characters, trait by trait, from first draft to final. Want to get in on the action? Bring a character-revealing page (250 words max) from your own novel or short story. One lucky audience member will have their entry read aloud and discussed by the authors. The winner receives a free GrubStreet pint glass and a drink—as well as possible…
Find out more »Craft on Draft: Creating Kick-ass Characters
Join novelists E. B. Moore, Jennie Wood, and Kate Racculia for a reading and discussion of how they created their unforgettable characters, trait by trait, from first draft to final. Want to get in on the action? Bring a character-revealing page (250 words max) from your own novel or short story. One lucky audience member will have their entry read aloud and discussed by the authors. The winner receives a free GrubStreet pint glass and a drink—as well as possible…
Find out more »Up-and-coming Boston Writers Take the Stage at Trident Booksellers
Trident Booksellers is pleased to host Jonathan Escoffery, Sarah Green, and Sonya Larson for a night of poetry, prose, and cold beer. Jonathan Escoffery's stories have appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Salt Hill Journal, Pangyrus, Middle Gray Magazine, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's MFA (Fiction). Sarah Green is the author of Earth Science (421 Atlanta), her recently released full-length poetry debut, and Skeleton Evenings (Finishing Line Press), a poetry chapbook that won the 2014 New…
Find out more »Coloring and Craft Beer at Trident Booksellers
Trident Booksellers "coloring nights" have been developing a local following but this one is going to beat them all because the cafe/bar/bookstore is adding free beer to the mix! Friends from Allagash Brewing Company will be at Trident handing out free samples of their various beers and fun Allagash swag. So stop in to Trident, grab a drink sample, something to eat, and color away. They’ll provide the supplies and some fun giveaways, you provide the creativity. Tickets are $10. Click here to purchase tickets.
Find out more »Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident
Love bingo? Stop by and join in the fun at Trident Booksellers every Tuesday night July 19th through August 30th. The Newbury Street bookseller will be giving away some favorite reads, fun summer goodies, and Trident swag. They will also provide some delicious drink specials to get the party started. First come, first served!
Find out more »Brews, Books, and Bingo at Trident
Love bingo? Stop by and join in the fun at Trident Booksellers every Tuesday night July 19th through August 30th. The Newbury Street bookseller will be giving away some of favorite reads, fun summer goodies, and Trident swag. They will also provide some delicious drink specials to get the party started. First come, first served!
Find out more »Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident
Love bingo? Stop by and join in the fun at Trident Booksellers every Tuesday night July 19th through August 30th. The Newbury Street bookseller will be giving away some favorite reads, fun summer goodies, and Trident swag. They will also provide some delicious drink specials to get the party started. First come, first served!
Find out more »Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident
Love bingo? Stop by and join in the fun at Trident Booksellers every Tuesday night July 19th through August 30th. The Newbury Street bookseller will be giving away some favorite reads, fun summer goodies, and Trident swag. They will also provide some delicious drink specials to get the party started. First come, first served!
Find out more »Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident
Love bingo? Stop by and join in the fun at Trident Booksellers every Tuesday night July 19th through August 30th. The Newbury Street bookseller will be giving away some favorite reads, fun summer goodies, and Trident swag. They will also provide some delicious drink specials to get the party started. First come, first served!
Find out more »Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident
Love bingo? Stop by and join in the fun at Trident Booksellers every Tuesday night July 19th through August 30th. The Newbury Street bookseller will be giving away some favorite reads, fun summer goodies, and Trident swag. They will also provide some delicious drink specials to get the party started. First come, first served!
Find out more »Craft on Draft: The Working Lives of Characters
Easy Rawlins, private eye. Jane Eyre, governess. Atticus Finch, lawyer. Who would these characters be without their jobs? Come hear authors Louise Miller, Jennifer S. Brown, and Pam Wechsler discuss their characters careers, why they chose them, and how employment informs their narratives. Doors open at 630PM. Reading begins at 7PM.
Find out more »A Night of Poetry with Ellen Steinbaum
Trident Books is pleased to welcome Ellen Steinbaum reading from her new book of poetry, Brightness Falls. She will be joined by local poets Wendy Mnookin and Andrew K. Peterson. About the Speakers: Ellen Steinbaum is the author of three poetry collections, “Afterwords,” “Container Gardening,” and “Brightness Falls.” Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is included in Garrison Keillor’s “Good Poems, American Places” and “The Widows’ Handbook.” An award-winning journalist and former literary columnist for…
Find out more »James Boice reads from his new novel, THE SHOOTING
Join author James Boice for a reading and signing of his new book, The Shooting. Ambitious and unafraid, James Boice cuts to the bone of an American tragedy in progress. Meet the most hated Woman in America: Jenny Sanders (also known as the country’s most successful gun control advocate). On her way to New York City, to the site of yet another shooting, she encounters one of her many opponents. Their shocking collision will plunge you directly into the world of…
Find out more »Massmouth Story Slam
Trident Booksellers & Cafe is pleased to welcome another edition of the Massmouth Story Slam, Our Common Wealth of Story. The theme: Animal Nature. What is a Story Slam? A story slam is a contest of stories by known and undiscovered talent. Story slammers sign up on the night to tell a 5-minute short story on the evening’s theme. Ten names are drawn at random from a box. A team of 5 volunteer judges – interested amateurs, storytellers, theater people and…
Find out more »Anti-New Years Resolution Party
Six days into the new year, are you already sick of juice cleanses and green diets?Join author/baker Louise Miller (The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living) at Trident Booksellers and Cafe for a night of baking instruction that goes against all the new-year-new-you goals filling up your Instagram feed. Learn recipes, get baking tips, and get your hands dirty learning to make decadent desserts using as much butter, sugar, chocolate, bacon, and as many other unhealthy things as humanly possible. Louise will be…
Find out more »Boston Poet Spotlight Series
Local poet John Mulrooney opens for Kevin Gallagher, who will be reading from and signing his new book, LOOM. Kevin Gallagher is a political economist, poet and publisher living in Greater Boston with his wife Kelly, their children Theo and Estelle, and Rexroth, the family’s German shepherd. Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics, and works as a Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Pardee School for Global Studies. John Mulrooney is a poet, filmmaker, and musician living in Cambridge,…
Find out more »The Massachusetts Cultural Council Awards Reading
Every two years, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) awards grants to some of the most talented writers and poets working in the Commonwealth. Literary artists awarded through MCC’s Artist Fellowships Program will share their work. Readers: Scott Challener Aaron Krol Chris Castellani Sean McCarthy Jessica Reik
Find out more »Death Comes to Downton: A Murder Mystery Dinner Party
Rodney Raleigh, the Earl of Grantham and Lord of Downton Abbey, has invited you to a grand dinner party on his estate. The tables are set, the lamps are lit (none of that new-fangled electricity here, thank you very much), and the guests have all arrived. Everyone who’s anyone is here–but where is the host? When Lord Raleigh is found dead in his bedchamber, it soon becomes clear that there’s a murderer at Downton Abbey. But who? It seems that…
Find out more »“Worst Bestsellers” Live Taping at Trident Booksellers & Cafe
Worst Bestsellers is a podcast where Trident staff read popular books of questionable quality so you don’t have to! For this LIVE episode, we’re joined by MARGARET H. WILLISON of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, the Appointment Television podcast, and the Two Bossy Dames newsletter to discuss perennial tearjerker The Notebook by NICHOLAS SPARKS.You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn how the book might be improved by the addition of DWAYNE “THE ROCK” JOHNSON.
Find out more »Writing Hard Stories: Memoirists in Conversation
Trident Booksellers and Cafe welcomes MELANIE BROOKS, author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma, for a conversation with acclaimed memoirists RICHARD HOFFMAN (Boy Erased), GARRARD CONLEY (Love and Fury), and Boston Literary District's own ALYSIA ABBOTT (Fairyland). In her attempt to write a memoir about her father’s death from a secret AIDS infection in 1985, Brooks was left with some painful questions: What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens to us when we embark on…
Find out more »Literary Trivia
It’s the team event you’ve been training for your whole life (or at least since your first-year literature seminar): the BBF’s annual Literary Pub Trivia! Join us at 6pm on Thursday, July 27 at Trident Booksellers and Café for this year’s edition. Our host for the evening is the charming and satin-voiced Jack Lepiarz of 90.9 WBUR, who will be serving up questions on all things bookish, from Aesop’s Fables to Zadie Smith. Put together a team (6 people max!) or meet some fellow…
Find out more »What Your Clutter is Trying to Tell You with KERRI RICHARDSON
Trident Booksellers is pleased to welcome author KERRI RICHARDSON, lifestyle designer and trained coach with more than 15 years’ experience, for a reading of her book What Your Clutter is Trying to Tell You. With a practical, warm, and welcoming approach, lifestyle designer and coach, RICHARDSON guides you to accept your clutter as a natural manifestation of your mind, body, and spirit looking out for yourself. It is your soul calling out for you invest in self-care and to face the fears…
Find out more »Freedom’s Ring, A Boston-set Novel by HEIDI CHIAVAROLI
Trident Booksellers host author HEIDI CHIAVAROLI as she takes her audience back in time to discover what really happened the night of the Boston Massacre. She will read passages from her debut novel, Freedom's Ring, answer questions, and sign books. From the Boston Marathon bombing to the American Revolution and the Boston Massacre, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Although two years have passed since the Boston Marathon bombing, Annie David continues to be haunted by the…
Find out more »NYC Cooking Demo with Food/Travel Journalist TRACEY CEURVELS
Trident Booksellers is pleased to host food/travel journalist TRACEY CEURVELS with a demonstration of her book The NYC Kitchen Cookbook. Inspired by the local shops in her New York neighborhood, CEURVELS began cooking with exotic ingredients and writing about her experiments on her trendsetting blog, “The NYC Kitchen,” in 2010. Since then Tracey has tested hundreds of beautiful recipes, and shared the warmth of her friendly home kitchen with each reader. In The NYC Kitchen Cookbook, Tracey shares her tasty…
Find out more »Award-winning poet CHUCK CARLISE at Trident Booksellers
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 by creating stories. Its narrative situation begins with the French folk legend of “l’Inconnue de la Seine”—the unidentified young woman who drowned herself in Paris…
Find out more »Protecting the Planet: A Discussion of the Climate Crisis and Climate Visionaries
Join Trident Booksellers for a book talk with a focus on the science, communication, advocacy, and opportunity of climate change. The talk will focus on today's climate crisis and climate visionaries, their inspiring work, and the promising solutions that could bring us to 100% wind, water and solar power by 2050. The book in focus: Protecting the Planet: Environmental Champions from Conservation to Climate Change by authors MARIAH TINGER and BUDD TITLOW. This event is free and open to the public.…
Find out more »Sci-Fi author M.T. ANDERSON and award-winning novelist JULIA GLASS in conversation
Join Trident Booksellers for a night of conversation between authors M.T. ANDERSON and JULIA GLASS. National Book Award winner M.T. ANDERSON returns to future Earth with Landscape with Invisible Hand, a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth— but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered…
Find out more »Sid Sanford Lives! A reading and signing with debut author DANIEL FORD
Trident Booksellers is pleased to welcome local debut author DANIEL FORD for a reading and signing of his first novel, Sid Sanford Lives. FORD also co-hosts a literary podcast known as Writer's Bone. Riffing on noir and told in a series of vignettes, Sid Sanford Lives! douses humanistic themes—love, loss, and family—in bourbon, shoves them in the barrel of a gun, and shoots. This emotionally-charged debut is sure to keep readers up late into the night to find out who is left standing. Sid…
Find out more »FRED DEVECCA Shares his Mystery Novel, The Nutting Girl
Trident Booksellers hosts longtime screenwriter, photographer, director, actor, and free-lance writer/author FRED DEVECCA for a reading of his novel The Nutting Girl. Middle-aged Frank Raven used to be a lot of things--a blind monk, a cop, a private detective, and a hard drinker. Now he doesn't do much except run a funky old movie theater in bucolic Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, dance and sing with the local troupe of Morris Dancers, and record bird songs on his phone. A lanky young wunderkind…
Find out more »Poets KERRI FRENCH, JENNIFER MILITELLO, and SARAH SWEENEY at Trident Booksellers
Trident Booksellers is pleased to host a reading to celebrate the release of KERRI FRENCH’s poetry collection Every Room in the Body, winner of the 2016 Moon City Poetry Award. The reading will also feature two other writers with recent releases: poet JENNIFER MILITELLO (reading from A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments), and nonfiction writer and poet SARAH SWEENEY (reading from her essay collection Tell Me If You’re Lying). This event is free and open to the public. Trident Booksellers has all three…
Find out more »Darkansas: A Novel with debut author JARRET MIDDLETON
Trident Booksellers is pleased to host author JARRET MIDDLETON for a reading of his debut novel, Darkansas. Jordan is a country musician living in the shadow of his father, bluegrass legend Walker Bayne. A man who has made a lifetime of poor decisions, Jordan bounces between dive bars, accruing women and drinking himself to the brink of disaster. When he returns home to the Ozarks for his twin brother’s wedding, Jordan uncovers a dark vein in the Bayne family history: going…
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.