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How Your Book is Sold
Panel followed by q&a: Two bookstore owners and a book distributor representative will talk and answer questions about the process of how books are distributed and sold, and how this matters to established publishers and self-publishing writers. With Jeff Mayersohn of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge (MA), Willard Williams of the independent chain of Toadstool bookstores in southern New Hampshire, and Stephen Williamson of New England Book Reps.
Find out more »Novelist KAMILA SHAMS: Home Fire
Brookline Booksmith hosts Pakistani novelist KAMILA SHAMSIE— author of Burnt Shadows, Kartography, and Salt and Saffron— for a reading from her latest novel, Home Fire, at the Coolidge Corner Public Library. After raising her orphaned twin siblings, Isma is free; but she can’t stop worrying about her beautiful sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn— charming, naive, cavalier— enters the sisters’ lives, and suddenly all their fates are…
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.