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The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its January Reading Series. All readings are held in the Founder's Room of Pine Manor College located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. Copies of authors' books will be available for sale after all readings; cash-bar receptions ... (more)Dr. Gregory House meets Auguste Dupin in the fifteen true-life medical mysteries in The Deadly Dinner Party. Dr. Jonathan Edlow, vice-chair of emergency medicine at Beth Israel and associate professor of medicine at Harvard, recounts an array of page-turning epidemiological tales as thrilling as anything ... (more)The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its January Reading Series. All readings are held in the Founder's Room of Pine Manor College located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. Copies of authors' books will be available for sale after all readings; cash-bar receptions ... (more)$5 tickets will go on sale starting Wed., Dec. 16 Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome business and technology writer DANIEL PINK as he explores what makes us most productive, and discusses his new book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In Drive, Pink explains that the secret ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
Interested: Mark_Bell Added by ablachly. Billerica-based writing coach Sherry Ellis's author interviews have appeared in Poets & Writers and Agni, among other places. Illuminating Fiction collects nineteen of the best of them. To celebrate the book’s release, Ellis will interview renowned novelists Julia Glass (Three Junes, I See You Everywhere) ... (more)The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its January Reading Series. All readings are held in the Founder's Room of Pine Manor College located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. Copies of authors' books will be available for sale after all readings; cash-bar receptions ... (more)Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome surgeon and public health policy advocate ATUL GAWANDE as he discusses his new book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
New York Times Magazine writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis (America Anonymous) won the nation’s attention with his explosive story “Double Lives on the Down Low.” This penetrating piece is collected here along with other journalistic feats about sexuality and youth culture. Come celebrate the release ... (more)The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its January Reading Series. All readings are held in the Founder's Room of Pine Manor College located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. Copies of authors' books will be available for sale after all readings; cash-bar receptions ... (more)Cornerstone Books: Debra Crosby's A Quest Actor's Studio Presents A Night Of Entertainment! (January 8 at 7:00pm) Students aged 9 through 70 will be performing their monologues and stories. Debra Crosby’s A Quest Actor’s Studio is more than an acting studio. Founder Debra Crosby says: “Master the Craft of Acting & Discover the Confidence to Succeed in Life, on Stage and on the 'Big Screen!'” Debra Crosby ... (more)The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its January Reading Series. All readings are held in the Founder's Room of Pine Manor College located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. Copies of authors' books will be available for sale after all readings; cash-bar receptions ... (more)January Gill O’Neil’s first poetry collection explores the dynamics of race, family, motherhood, career, sex and ultimately, transformation. Underlife (CavanKerry press, December 2009, 9781933880167, $16) represents the wilderness of thought and emotion hidden away from the external world. Ms. O’Neil ... (more)January Gill O’Neil’s first poetry collection explores the dynamics of race, family, motherhood, career, sex and ultimately, transformation. Underlife (CavanKerry press, December 2009, 9781933880167, $16) represents the wilderness of thought and emotion hidden away from the external world. Ms. O’Neil ... (more)Chef, author of Kitchen Confidential and host of The Travel Channel’s No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain has been dubbed “the bad boy of cuisine” for his rock star look and blunt observations about the world of restaurants, chefs and cooking. Bourdain, the executive chef at New York’s famed bistro ... (more)Unhappiness abounds. Could you take it upon yourself to be happy? Gretchen Rubin did; The Happiness Project is her story. Culled from her incredibly popular blog – which is syndicated on Slate and the Huffington Post – the book chronicles Rubin’s attempts to change her life using philosophy, science, ... (more)MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (The Mind-Body Problem, Betraying Spinoza) returns with a novel that follows the riotous saga of a newly famous atheist academic. Jonathan Safran Foer calls the book "A hilarious novel about people’s existential agonies… deeply moving and a joy to read."
"A voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's enthralling new novel." Meet Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, and hear her discuss her new novel, Remarkable Creatures.
Interested: KristineArena Added by Dutton. Master storyteller Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) returns with a breathtaking historical novel about the life of Mary Anning, a groundbreaking female paleontologist. Weaving together the timeless themes of female friendship, class and the plight of Victorian-era women, Remarkable Creatures ... (more)Beloved, bestselling novelist Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler) will make her first visit to the Booksmith to celebrate the paperback release of Very Valentine. The first installment of her Valentine trilogy follows a large, boisterous family of shoemakers in Greenwich Village as they ... (more)Jonathan Dee (St. Famous) is the author of four works of literary fiction, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a frequent contributor to Harper’s and a writer admired by the likes of Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen and Jay McInerney. His latest novel, The Privileges, blends keen social observation ... (more)The Booksmith presents a night of poetry with two incredible women. Pushcart Prize-winner Celia Gilbert, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, will read from her collection Something to Exchange. Ruth Lepson, poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music, draws from I Went Looking For ... (more)Local authors are featured in this “book fair” formatted event. Meet the authors of an eclectic mix of memoir, spirituality/psychology and fiction: Heather Hutsell, Debra Feldman, Chris Doyle and Christine Sandor.
Cornerstone Books: Meet the Author Afternoon: Hank Phillippi Ryan at the Wyndham Andover (January 24 at 1:00pm) Meet the Author Afternoon: Hank Phillippi Ryan at the Wyndham Andover Join award-winning investigative reporter and mystery writer Hank Phillippi Ryan at this special event to benefit Patient Advocacy Training and Health Services (PATHS). Hank has taken the mystery world by storm with her Charlie McNally ... (more)Event location: Wyndham Andover Hotel, 123 Old River Road, Andover
Guggenheim Fellow and three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin (Evensong, The Finishing School) returns with a powerful new novel about memory and tragedy. Set in a North Carolina all-girls Catholic school in the 1950s, Unfinished Desires tells the story of a passionate friendship and its ... (more)Gould & Fitzgerald will discuss our involvement in Afghanistan, one year into the Obama presidency, as we begin a second escalation of the war. This event is free and open to the public and parking is available directly behind the building in the Crescent Street municipal parking lot.
Sadie Jones’ first book, The Outcast, won Britain’s prestigious Costa First Novel Award and was a finalist for both the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Small Wars, her brilliant new novel, follows a young British Army official whose bloody battles irrevocably ... (more)All are welcome to attend our classics book club.
Thursday's Theatre of Words & Music features established and emerging writers and artists to read/display/perform their work for the public at Cornerstone Books in Salem, MA. An open mike will be held following featured writers/artists--artists are chosen by first-come-first-serve. Please note that this ... (more)NPR’s Marketplace Money economics editor and personal finance expert Chris Farrell has written a guide to finding the silver lining in America’s financial black cloud. In The New Frugality, he presents a fresh way of thinking about consumption, advocating a lifestyle based around values, sustainability ... (more)Booksmith favorite Lisa See (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love) visits us on the occasion of the paperback release of Shanghai Girls. Her latest work of historical fiction follows the saga of a family started by two cosmopolitan Chinese sisters married off to San Francisco emigrants, sprinkled ... (more)The powerful writer behind the novels Black and White and Family History returns with her second memoir, a stunning follow-up to 1998’s Slow Motion. Shapiro, raised in an Orthodox Jewish household, nevertheless grew up faithless. Devotion, which Anne Lamott calls “rich in honesty and intelligence,” ... (more)The world-class, award-winning architectural firm Albert, Righter and Tittmann is renowned for reinventing historical styles in stunning houses in and around Brookline and beyond. The partners of the firm will visit the Booksmith for a presentation of their work, collected in this gorgeous new book.
Join us for the national book release of acclaimed poet Dan Chiasson's stunning new collection, Where's the Moon, There's the Moon at the Pierre Menard Art Gallery in Harvard Square. Chiasson is the edtor of the Paris Review and teaches creative writing at Wellesley College.
Dwayne Raymond was waiting tables in Provincetown when he became Norman Mailer’s personal assistant. Mornings tells the moving story of their ten-year friendship, which lasted through Mailer’s four final books and ended with his death. Touching, revelatory and completely unexpected, this book is ... (more)Nancy Kehoe is a nun and psychology clinician. In her first book, she makes a compelling argument for faith as a means to make decisions and order one’s life. With great empathy, she shares stories of the troubled people she has helped and writes of the way religious feeling has shaped her own choices. ... (more)Event location: Temple Kehillath Israel (384 Harvard Street, Brookline)
Kevin Salwen was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and founded the magazine Motto. Hannah is his idealistic 15 year-old daughter. The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back is the inspiring story of what happened when Hannah convinced her family to sell their ... (more)Brookline’s own Risa Miller (Welcome to Heavenly Heights) teaches writing at Emerson College. Her latest novel, set in Brookline and Israel, deftly explores the battlegrounds between parents and children and faith and reason, following two sisters floored by their father's sudden conversion to Orthodox ... (more)At the Coolidge Corner Theatre - tickets $5 One of the world’s best-selling mystery writers will pay a visit to Brookline in honor of what’s already being called his greatest thriller yet. Swedish sensation Henning Mankell, the man behind Wallander (portrayed by Kenneth Branagh in the PBS series ... (more)Event location: Coolidge Corner Theatre
Book-lovers beleaguered by the ascension of digital information can find solace in acclaimed writer Marilyn Johnson’s new work. Through smart and funny stories about both carbon- and binary-based information professionals, she provides us with an invaluable perspective on the cyber revolution and the ... (more)Tara Masih reads from Where the Dog Star Never Glows. The editor of the Rose Metal Press Guide to Flash Fiction has written a collection of beautifully-observed short stories set in far-flung corners of the globe. Published by North Carolina's beloved indie Press 53, Where the Dog Star Never Glows is a wise and emotionally honest look at characters seeking ... (more)Marisa Meltzer, a freelance writer and regular contributor to the Daily Beast and the Awl, chronicled the rise and fall of the world’s best teen magazine in How Sassy Changed My Life. She brings the same wit and verve to Girl Power, an analysis of and paean to the early days of third-wave feminism, ... (more)All are welcome to attend our classics book club.
All are welcome to attend our classics book club.
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