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6:00 pm

NYT bestselling author ATUL GAWANDE with novelist JENNIFER HAIGH

September 12, 2017 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard Street
Brookline, Massachusetts 02446 United States
$20

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. […]

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6:30 pm

NYT best-selling author GRETCHEN RUBIN in conversation with MELISSA HARTWIG

September 12, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Brattle Theatre, 1256 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
$30

Harvard Book Store welcomes New York Times-bestselling author GRETCHEN RUBIN—author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project—and Whole30 program creator MELISSA HARTWIG for a discussion of Rubin's latest book, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too). A book signing with both speakers will follow the discussion. […]

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7:00 pm

Little Fires Everywhere, the latest from CELESTE NG

September 12, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
Free

Porter Square Books is pleased to host local novelist, and best-selling author of Everything I Never Told You, CELESTE NG for a reading of her newest novel, Little Fires Everywhere. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful […]

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8:00 pm

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD in conversation with the New Yorker’s JAMES WOOD

September 12, 2017 | 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
First Parish In Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
$28

Harvard Book Store welcomes KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, bestselling and acclaimed author of the six-volume novel My Struggle, and literary critic JAMES WOOD for a discussion of Knausgaard's latest book, Autumn—the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons. Boston University's WILLIAM PIERCE, author of Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle, will provide the […]

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