Events for November 2019

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Events for November 2019 › Book Talk

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				1 Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth present THE ETHICAL ALGORITHM: THE SCIENCE OF SOCIALLY AWARE ALGORITHM DESIGN at Harvard Book Store Gail Mazur, Major Jackson, Didi Jackson, Nausheen Eusuf, and Lloyd Schwartz present THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2019 at Harvard Book Store Lawrence Millman presents FUNGIPEDIA at Porter Square Books Jane Bernstein presents THE FACE TELLS THE SECRETS at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	2 After Hours at the Bookstore with Jac Jemc at Harvard Book Store	3
4 Sara B. Fraser discusses her debut novel, LONG DIVISION at Belmont Public Library Paul Tough presents THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST: HOW COLLEGE MAKES OR BREAKS US at Harvard Book Store	5 Lawrence Lessig presents THEY DON’T REPRESENT US: RECLAIMING OUR DEMOCRACY at Brattle Theatre Erin Morgenstern presents THE STARLESS SEA in conversation with Liberty Hardy at Coolidge Corner School	6 Was Henry a Hippie? Locating Thoreau in a Changing Modern World at State Library of Massachusetts Zeruya Shalev in conversation with Lauren Groff at Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library, Central Library Carmen Maria Machado presents IN THE DREAM HOUSE: A MEMOIR at Brattle Theatre Lawrence Weschler presents AND HOW ARE YOU DR. SACKS?: A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF OLIVER SACKS at Harvard Book Store Matt Saincome presents THE HARD TIMES: THE FIRST 40 YEARS in conversation with Bill Conway at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	7 Karen Olsson presents THE WELL CONJECTURES: ON MATH AND THE PURSUIT OF THE UNKNOWN at Harvard Science Center Poems at the Extremes of Feelings: THE MIND HAS CLIFFS OF FALL with Robert Pinsky at Boston Athenæum Mark Haber presents REINHARDT’S GARDEN: A NOVEL in conversation with Kit Schluter at Harvard Book Store Su Hwang presents THE COWHERD’S SON. Tamiko Beyer presents WE COME ELEMENTAL. Rajiv Mohabir presents BODEGA at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Award-winning author Eileen Pollack in Conversation with Jessica Treadway at Belmont Books	8 Christopher P. Heuer presents INTO THE WHITE: THE RENAISSANCE ARCTIC AND THE END OF THE IMAGE and Andrei Pop presents A FOREST OF SYMBOLS: ART, SCIENCE, AND TRUTH IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY at Harvard Book Store Lindy West presents THE WITCHES ARE COMING at First Parish Church Jack Goldsmith presents IN HOFFA’S SHADOW: A STEPFATHER, A DISAPPEARANCE IN DETROIT,AND MY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH at Harvard Book Store Susannah Cahalan presents THE GREAT PRETENDER at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Mathea Morris presents THERE YOU ARE at Papercuts J.P. View All 6 Events »	9 Timothy Gager presents SPREADING LIKE WILD FLOWERS at Center for the Arts Armory	10 Children’s Storytime: Hanna Cha presents TINY FEET BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS at Brookline Booksmith André Aciman: Find Me at Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall
11 André Aciman presents FIND ME: A NOVEL at Brattle Theatre Joanne Chang presents PASTRY LOVE at Porter Square Books	12 Donald L. Miller presents VICKSBURG: GRANT’S CAMPAIGN THAT BROKE THE CONFEDERACY at The Historic Rotunda at American Ancestors Jana Prikryl presents NO MATTER: POEMS in conversation with James Wood at Harvard Book Store George Howe Colt presents THE GAME at Wellesley Books Amanda Auerbach presents WHAT NEED HAVE WE FOR SUCH AS WE and Jennifer Song presents NEAR, AT at Harvard Book Store	13 Graphic Novel AIVALI: A STORY OF GREEKS AND TURKS in 1922 at Consulate General of Greece in Boston Lee Smolin presents EINSTEIN’S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT LIES BEYOND THE QUANTUM at Harvard Science Center Transnational Series presents: John Freeman in conversation at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Samuel Shem presents MAN’S 4TH BEST HOSPITAL: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store Kathleen Weiler presents MARIA BALDWIN’S WORLDS at Porter Square Books	14 Terry Tempest Williams presents EROSION: ESSAYS OF UNDOING at Brattle Theatre Thomas Travisano presents LOVE UNKNOWN: THE LIFE AND WORLDS OF ELIZABETH BISHOP at Harvard Book Store Saeed Jones presents HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Mimi Lemay presents WHAT WE WILL BECOME at Porter Square Books	15 Arthur Isak Applbaum presents LEGITIMACY: THE RIGHT TO RULE IN A WANTON WORLD at Harvard Book Store Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Opening Night at Hynes Convention Center Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at Hynes Convention Center Howard Eiland presents THE ARCADES PROJECT BY WALTER BENJAMIN in conversation with Lindsay Waters at Harvard Book Store Leah Greenburg and Ezra Levin present WE ARE INDIVISIBLE: A BLUEPRINT FOR DEMOCRACY AFTER TRUMP in conversation with Marshall Ganz at First Parish Church View All 6 Events »	16 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at Hynes Convention Center Niki Segnit presents LATERAL COOKING: ONE DISH LEADS TO ANOTHER at Harvard Book Store	17 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at Hynes Convention Center Tonya Mezrich and Ben Mezrich present CHARLIE NUMBERS AND THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Writers Helping Writers Reading & Raffle at Arts at the Armory Sheila Cordner presents WHO’S HIDING IN THIS BOOK? at Belmont Books Salon with Christopher Boucher presenting BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD and Robert Coover presenting GOING FOR A BEER
18 Porsha Olayiwola & guests present I SHIMMER SOMETIMES, TOO at Boston Public Library Lizabeth Cohen presents SAVING AMERICA’S CITIES: ED LOGUE AND THE STRUGGLE TO RENEW URBAN AMERICA IN THE SUBURBAN AGE at Harvard Book Store Adrienne Brodeur presents WILD GAME at Wellesley Books Keena Roberts presents WILD LIFE and Nicole Valentine presents A TIME TRAVELER’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY at Porter Square Books	19 Suzanne Hinman – The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in the Gilded Age New York at Boston Public Library Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky present ATRO POETS: YOUR GUIDE TO THE ZODIAC at Coolidge Corner Theatre Nina MacLaughlin presents WAKE, SIREN: OVID RESUNG at Harvard Book Store	20 Pastry Love: An Evening with Joanne Chang at More Than Words Erin Eileen Almond presents WITCHES’ DANCE: A NOVEL in conversation with Steve Almond at Harvard Book Store Janaka Stucky presents ASCEND, ASCEND / Julia Guez presents IN AN INVISIBLE GLASS CASE WHICH IS ALSO A FRAME / Paige Ackerson-Kiely presents DOLEFULLY, A RAMPART STANDS at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar George Howe Colt presents THE GAME at Porter Square Books	21 Christine Coulson presents METROPOLITAN STORIES : A NOVEL in conversation with Thomas Michie at Boston Public Library George Howe Colt presents THE GAME at The Historic Rotunda at American Ancestors Richard J. King presents AHAB’S ROLLING SEA: A NATURAL HISTORY OF MOBY-DICK at Harvard Book Store Martha Collins presents BECAUSE WHAT ELSE COULD I DO & Joseph Campana presents THE BOOK OF LIFE at Porter Square Books	22 Stéphane Vial and Patsy Baudoin present BEING AND THE SCREEN: HOW THE DIGITAL CHANGES PERCEPTION at Harvard Book Store Works in Translation – THE LIVING DAYS at Harvard Book Store Jeffrey Zuckerman presents THE LIVING DAYS BY ANANDA DEVI in conversation with Annabel L. Kim at Harvard Book Store Suzanne McConnell presents PITY THE READER: ON WRITING WITH STYLE at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, author of HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: A NOVEL in conversation with Kelly J. Ford, author of COTTONMOUTHS: A NOVEL at Newtonville Books	23 Katherine Hollander presents MY GERMAN DICTIONARY with Tanya Larkin at Porter Square Books School Street Sessions with Martín Espada, Doug Anderson, Danielle Legros Georges, Everett Hoagland, Richard Michelson, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, and Lauren Marie Schmidt at Omni Parker House, Kennedy Room	24
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.