Registration is required Members Free and Non-members Free with admission ($10) In Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, […]
Find out more »Rachael Conrad carefully curates choices for a new book club aimed at eight- to twelve-year old young people who love to read. Join her for a lively discussion about a new book every month. Parents, if your child would like to attend, please email rachael@wellesleybooks.com to reserve a spot! The book for the next meeting on January […]
Find out more »David Meerman Scott and his daughter Reiko are very different - one is a baby boomer business strategist, the other a millennial medical student. But both noticed that the kind of enthusiasm they once reserved for pleasures like the Grateful Dead (David) and Harry Potter (Reiko) now extends to all sorts of companies and organizations. […]
Find out more »Do you have a story to tell? Once again, Trident Booksellers is partnering with Massmouth to bring you some of the best emerging and featured storytellers in Greater Boston. Join us in Trident's cafe for an evening of engaging entertainment, and dinner and drinks if you choose. What is a Story Slam? A slam is […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed novelist GARTH GREENWELL—author of the award-winning What Belongs to You—for a discussion of his latest, highly-anticipated second novel, Cleanness. He will be joined in conversation by celebrated author STEPHEN MCCAULEY. About Cleanness Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind […]
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.