This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving with David J. Silverman Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, historian David J. Silverman offers a transformative new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with the Wampanoag people at the […]
Find out more »The Historic Rotunda at American Ancestors 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston 6:00 PM–7:00 PM, followed by book signing $37.50 includes seat and signed book ($35, retail) $12.50 general admission Historian Donald L. Miller tells the dramatic and deeply researched story of the Battle of Vicksburg, the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War. The conflict opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed more […]
Find out more »Mike Cohen celebrates his birthday, a week late. Expect unusual tales from deep in Mike's repertoire, from ancient Ireland, the swamps of Florida just before a huge hurricane, and the vast depths of space. Feature’s website: http://www.coriolisforce.com/TG/Demo/MDC_Live_Stories.asp There is an $8 requested donation. Every Tuesday night is Story Space from 6:45 P.M to 9:00 P.M. Storytelling […]
Find out more »“Of all the words that could define her, the most accurate is, I think, ingenious.“—Jorge Luis Borges “I don’t know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.“—Italo Calvino “Silvina Ocampo’s prose is made of elegant pleasures and delicate terrors. Her […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed poet and editor JANA PRIKRYL—author of The After Party—for a reading from her latest collection, No Matter: Poems. She will be joined in conversation by celebrated writer, New Yorker critic, and Harvard professor JAMES WOOD. About No Matter Jana Prikryl’s No Matter guides the reader through cities—remembered and imagined—toppling past the […]
Find out more »George Howe Colt, National Book Award finalist for The Big House, presents The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968, the story of that iconic American year, as seen through the young men who lived it and were changed by it. Learn more at store.wellesleybooks.com About The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 *A New […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes poets AMANDA AUERBACH and JENNIFER SOONG for a reading from their new collections, What Need Have We For Such As We and Near, At. About What Need Have We For Such As We In What Need Have We For Such as We, the speaker quickly transitions from being a lyrical poet, […]
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.