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No events found. Go ahead and add an event. Past eventsFelicia Sullivan (March 3 at 7:00pm) "Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome FELICIA C. SULLIVAN as she reads from The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life, a deeply personal and moving memoir. ..."
Pauline W. Chen (March 4 at 7:00pm) "Harvard Book Store is honored to host acclaimed surgeon and bestselling author PAULINE W. CHEN, who examines how death is treated in the medical world in her singular new book. ..."
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Susan Jacoby (March 5 at 7:00pm) "Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome SUSAN JACOBY, who combines historical analysis with contemporary observation to dissect a new American cultural phenomenon in her latest book ..."
Sarah Boxer (March 6 at 6:00pm) "Harvard Book Store is pleased to host Cantabrigian author and former New York Times critic and reporter SARAH BOXER. She will be joined by Megan Sullivan of Bookdwarf.com and the Boston Phoenix's Sharon Steel in a conversation about blogs, those who write them, and why we read them. ..." ($5 charge) Event location: Brattle Theatre
Joseph S. Nye (March 10 at 7:00pm) "Harvard Book Store is honored to host the Kennedy School's JOSEPH S. NYE for a discussion of what true leadership is and how it relates to power. ..." Event location: First Parish Church (3 Church Street)
Askold Melnyczuk (March 11 at 7:00pm) "Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning author ASKOLD MELNYCZUK for a reading and discussion of his latest novel. His father’s British military uniform, an oversize glass jar, and a letter written in a language he can’t read: these are the only things James kept of his inheritance ... (more)
Chris Hedges (March 12 at 7:00pm) "Harvard Book Store is pleased to host Pulitzer Prize-winning human-rights journalist CHRIS HEDGES who looks at the state of the battle about faith in America in his new book. ..."
Daoud Hari (April 1 at 7:00pm) Daoud Hari reads from The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur. Talk, Q&A, book signing. Cost $5. First Parish Church is at the corner of Church Street and Mass. Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. (617)661-1424 ext.5. The Translator was a LibraryThing Early Review selection. Event location: First Parish Church, Cambridge
Kristie Macrakis (April 4 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to present historian and Harvard visiting scholar KRISTIE MACRAKIS as she explores the world of one of the most effective and feared spy agencies in history. More fascinating than fiction, Seduced by Secrets reveals the classified technical methods and sources of the ... (more)
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Mark Vonnegut (April 4 at 6:00pm) $5 tickets on sale now. Harvard Book Store is honored to host MARK VONNEGUT for a presentation and discussion of Armageddon in Retrospect, "a posthumous collection of fiction and nonfiction once again plumbing the madness and soul-destroying inhumanities of war" (Kirkus Reviews) by his father, KURT ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
Michael Holley (April 7 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is delighted to host sports radio personality and bestselling sportswriter MICHAEL HOLLEY as he looks at the changing face of baseball and the inner workings of a budding baseball dynasty.
Michael L. Morgan (April 7 at 7:30pm) Harvard Hillel welcomes Indiana University professor MICHAEL L. MORGAN as he presents The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy. Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the ... (more)Event location: Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall, 52 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge
Isabelle Allende (April 8 at 7:00pm) $5 tickets on sale now. Harvard Book Store is most pleased to welcome Chilean novelist and memoirist extraordinaire ISABEL ALLENDE to read from her latest memoir The Sum of Our Days. In The Sum of Our Days, Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death ... (more)Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
James Howard Kunstler (April 9 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to host novelist and social commentator JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER as he reads from his new novel World Made by Hand. In his nonfiction The Long Emergency, celebrated social commentator Kunstler explored how the age of globalization and mankind’s explosive progress over ... (more)
Sandra Rapoport (April 9 at 7:00pm) Harvard Hillel is pleased to welcome SANDRA RAPOPORT for a discussion of her new nonfiction work, Moses’ Women. Rapoport is co-author of this feminist re-telling of the Bible’s Exodus saga. While the Exodus story revolves around Moses, history’s premier prophet, ... (more)Event location: Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall, 52 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge
Gordon S. Wood (April 11 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning historian GORDON S. WOOD as he reflects on the historian’s craft and its place in American culture. History is to society what memory is to the individual: without it, we don't know who we are, and we can't make wise decisions about ... (more)
Pico Iyer (April 12 at 6:00pm) Harvard Book Store, as part of Harvard Square Business Association's April 12th Bookish Ball festivities, honoring Harvard Square's bookstores, is pleased to present PICO IYER for a discussion of his new, unprecedented profile of the Dalai Lama. "This is a brilliant pairing of writer and subject. ... (more)
"Fun-Raiser for Adoption" featuring actress, comedian, and novelist ALISON LARKIN (April 14 at 6:00pm) The Center for Family Connections (CFFC) and Adoption and Foster Care (AFC) Mentoring are pleased to present actress, comedian, and novelist ALISON LARKIN (The English American), who will entertain you, read from her debut novel, and take questions as part of this fund-raiser at the Hotel Marlowe. Ms. ... (more)Event location: Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA 02141
Mary Jo Firth Gillett, Betsey Houghton (April 14 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to host poets MARY JO FIRTH GILLETT and BETSEY HOUGHTON for a reading from their new collections of verse.
Madeleine Kunin (April 15 at 7:00pm) Harvard Hillel is honored to host former Vermont governor and ambassador to Switzerland MADELEINE M. KUNIN as she explores women’s role in government and contemporary leadership. Pearls, Politics, and Power is a call to action for new political engagement and leadership from the women of America. ... (more)Event location: Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall, 52 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge
Jack O'Connell (April 15 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome novelist JACK O’CONNELL as he reads from his latest novel The Resurrectionist. Part classic noir thriller, part mind-bending fantasy, The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. It is the story of Sweeney, a druggist ... (more)
Kevin Phillips (April 15 at 7:30pm) Cambridge Forum is pleased to present renowned political and economic commentator KEVIN PHILLIPS for a discussion of the state of American capitalism today.
From the book's subtitle, it doesn't sound good. Join the Cambridge Forum audience on April 15th to hear Mr. Phillips' respected opinions. Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Alexander McCall Smith (April 16 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH to present The Miracle at Speedy Motors, his latest novel in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Featuring Precious Ramotswe—Botswana’s leading, and only, female private detective— the No.1 Ladies’ Detective ... (more)Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
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Richard Price (April 17 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to host novelist RICHARD PRICE to read from his latest work, Lush Life. "So, what do you do?” Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter... But now he’s thirty-five years old, and he’s still living on the Lower ... (more)
Noah Feldman (April 18 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store and Harvard Hillel are pleased to welcome Harvard Law's NOAH FELDMAN as he looks at the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the shari'a—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world. Western powers call it a threat to democracy. ... (more)
Philip Bobbitt (April 22 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Columbia University professor PHILIP BOBBITT as he brings together historical, legal, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a “war on terror.” In Terror and Consent, Bobbitt declares that the United States is the chief cause of global networked ... (more)
Keith Gessen (April 23 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store and Harvard Hillel are excited to present n+1 founding editor KEITH GESSEN to read from his praised first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men. “A debut novel from Russian-born translator Gessen that skewers the literary and romantic ambitions of three well- educated, tightly ... (more)
Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki (April 24 at 6:00pm) Harvard Book Store is excited to host historian HOWARD ZINN and cartoonist MIKE KONOPACKI as they present their graphic adaptation of Zinn's bestselling grassroots history book, A People's History of the United States. Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United States ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
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Jonathan Rieder (April 25 at 3:00pm) Jonathan Rieder reads from The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Harvard Book Store is pleased to host Barnard College and Columbia University sociology professor JONATHAN RIEDER as he discusses the life and endeavors of one of America’s greatest moral and political leaders. “You don’t know me,” Martin Luther King, Jr. once declared to those who criticized ... (more)
Don Lee (April 25 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-laureled author and former Ploughshares editor DON LEE to read from his novel and comic satire, Wrack and Ruin. Lyndon Song, a renowned sculptor, has fled New York City to become a Brussels sprouts farmer in the small California town of Rosarita Bay. ... (more)
GREG GRAFFIN receives the 2008 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism (April 26 at 8:00pm) Greg Graffin discusses Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?: A Professor and a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity. Cambridge Forum and the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard welcome Greg Graffin, the lead singer and songwriter for seminal punk band Bad Religion, as he receives the 2008 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. The award, which was given last year to novelist Salman Rushdie, is sponsored ... (more)Event location: Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Elizabeth Strout (April 28 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is delighted to host New York Times bestselling author ELIZABETH STROUT as she reads from her latest work, a collection of thirteen narratives bound together by the presence of one memorable character: Olive Kitteridge. At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, ... (more)
Susan Griffin (April 29 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist SUSAN GRIFFIN as she looks at the potential of democracy and what it means to be an American citizen today. In this exploration of American history, which emphasizes the inner lives of pivotal historical ... (more)
Max Hastings (April 30 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome military historian and former foreign correspondent MAX HASTINGS to discuss the final year—and world-changing events—of the Pacific war against Japan. By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan’s defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory ... (more)
Susan Neiman (April 30 at 7:00pm) Neiman is a moral philosopher committed to making the tools of her trade relevant to real life. In Moral Clarity, she shows how resurrecting a moral vocabulary—good and evil, heroism and nobility—can steer us clear of the dogmas of the right and the helpless pragmatism of the left. In search of a ... (more)Event location: Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall, 52 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge
Min Jin Lee (May 1 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning first-time novelist MIN JIN LEE as she reads from Free Food for Millionaires. "Competence can be a curse." So begins Min Jin Lee's debut novel about class, society, and identity. Casey Han's four years at Princeton have given her many things: "a refined diction, ... (more)
Ashraf Ghani (May 2 at 3:00pm) Today, between forty and sixty nations, home to close to two billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems—terrorism, drugs, human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide—originate in such states, and the international ... (more)
Lawrence Weinstein (May 2 at 7:00pm) In Grammar for the Soul, Lawrence Weinstein shows that simple grammar such as syntax and punctuation can be utilized as tools for change and growth, just as yoga and the martial arts are used for self-improvement. He compares the realm of grammar to a kind of psycho-social gymnasium, where—instead ... (more)
Tony Horwitz (May 5 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist TONY HORWITZ as he tells of an eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America. On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 ... (more)
Michael Eric Dyson (May 6 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research are honored to present Georgetown University sociology professor MICHAEL ERIC DYSON as he examines the death of one of the twentieth-century's great leaders and its impact on the United States. On April ... (more)Event location: Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA
George Johnson (May 6 at 7:00pm) Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces, when scientists were dazzled by light, by electricity, and by the beating of the hearts they laid bare on the dissecting table. We see Galileo singing to mark time as he measures the pull of gravity, and Newton carefully ... (more)
Howard Fineman (May 7 at 6:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to host Newsweek's senior Washington correspondent and columnist HOWARD FINEMAN as he looks at the value of arguing to modern American welfare. Mixing vivid scenes and figures from the campaign trail with forays into four hundred years of American history, Fineman shows ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
Fareed Zakaria (May 8 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store welcomes FAREED ZAKARIA, editor of Newsweek International, as he argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time in his latest work, The Post-American World. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins ... (more)Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Robert H. Bates (May 9 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to present Harvard University professor ROBERT H. BATES as he discusses his latest work, When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late Century Africa. In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, ... (more)
Michael T. Klare (May 9 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to host defense analyst for The Nation, MICHAEL T. KLARE to discuss how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power. Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was ... (more)
David Samuels (May 12 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and frequent contributor to The New Yorker DAVID SAMUELS as he turns a journalistic eye on today's world with his two latest works. Including profiles of Pacific Northwest radicals and Nevada nuclear test site workers, ... (more)
Preeta Samarasan, V.V. Ganeshananthan (May 13 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government are pleased to welcome award-winning writer PREETA SAMARASAN and Atlantic Monthly and Wall Street Journal contributor V. V. GANESHANANTHAN to read from their debut novels, followed by a conversation about political identity in literature. In ... (more)
Neal I. Rosenthal (May 14 at 6:30pm) Harvard Book Store and UpStairs on the Square present leading importer of limited-production wines NEAL I. ROSENTHAL, who takes readers on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of change in the world of wine in his new book. In the ... (more)Event location: UpStairs on the Square, 91 Winthrop St. Cambridge MA
Mark Sarvas (May 15 at 7:00pm)
Martha C. Nussbaum (May 16 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store is honored to host University of Chicago professor MARTHA NUSSBAUM for a discussion of her latest work, Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future ... (more)
Carl Zimmer (May 16 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome New York Times science writer CARL ZIMMER to tell the story of the one species on earth science knows best of all, E. coli: • Within days of being born, we are infected with billions of E. coli. They will inhabit each and every one of us until we ... (more)
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Alexandra Fuller (May 19 at 6:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome bestselling author ALEXANDRA FULLER (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight) to read from her newest book The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Fuller's rendering of the brief and poignant life of one of Wyoming's native sons. Colton H. Bryant never wanted to leave Wyoming. ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
John Harwood, Gerald F. Seib (May 20 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to present prizewinning journalists Harwood and Seib, who reveal how today’s Washington power game really works in their new book. Pennsylvania Avenue, the 1.2-mile stretch between the White House and the Capitol, is where the influential and ambitious congregate. Through ... (more)
Gil Adamson (May 21 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome acclaimed short fiction writer and poet GIL ADAMSON to read from her first novel. "Set in 1903, Adamson's compelling debut tells the wintry tale of 19-year-old Mary Boulton (widowed by her own hand) and her frantic odyssey across Idaho and Montana. The details ... (more)
Kenn Kaufman, Tim Gallagher (May 22 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is delighted to host leading ornithologists KENN KAUFMAN and TIM GALLAGHER to discuss their respective new books, which combine birding history, personal memoir, and travelogue. At age sixteen, KAUFMAN left home to travel the world in search of birds. Now a grown man and a renowned ... (more)
David Sedaris (June 6 at 7:00pm)
Junot Diaz (September 3 at 6:00pm) Junot Diaz reads from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao . Event location: Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
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BRIAN GREENE (September 16 at 6:00pm) Tickets $5 Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
KERRY KENNEDY (September 17 at 7:00pm)
MARION NESTLE (September 18 at 7:00pm)
LYNN MARGULIS (September 18 at 7:30pm) Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
ANNETTE GORDON-REED (September 19 at 7:00pm)
NEAL STEPHENSON (September 20 at 7:00pm) $5 tickets on sale Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
DUBRAVKA UGRESIC (September 24 at 7:00pm)
JOHN ZOGBY (September 25 at 7:00pm)
ANDREW BACEVICH (September 26 at 7:00pm)
The Harvard Square Book Circle (September 29 at 7:00pm) The Harvard Square Book Circle will discuss Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
MATT WEILAND, Alison Bechdel, Tony Horwitz, Joshua Clark (September 29 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store and Powell's Books are very pleased to welcome State by State co-editor MATT WEILAND with contributors ALISON BECHDEL (Vermont), TONY HORWITZ (Virginia), JOSHUA CLARK (Louisiana), and more excellent individuals for a discussion of State by State--a collection of original writing on ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
William Corbett (September 30 at 7:00pm)
THOMAS FRANK (October 1 at 6:00pm) Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
JAMES TRAUB, JONATHAN MAHLER (October 2 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome New York Times Magazine contributing writers James Traub and Jonathan Mahler for a discussion of their new analyses of, respectively, America’s democratic evangelizing in The Freedom Agenda, and an historic Supreme Court showdown in The Challenge: Hamdan v. ... (more)
ROGER MARTIN (October 3 at 7:00pm) ROGER MARTIN reads from Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again.
Deborah Copaken Kogan (October 6 at 7:00pm)
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN (October 6 at 7:00pm)
MARJORIE GARBER (October 7 at 7:00pm)
DEXTER FILKINS (October 8 at 7:00pm)
JARED BERNSTEIN (October 8 at 7:30pm) Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
DAVID MACAULAY (October 10 at 6:00pm) Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
SARAH VOWELL (October 11 at 7:00pm) $5 tickets go on sale Fri., Sept. 19th. Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
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Greg Melville (October 13 at 7:00pm)
GREG MELVILLE (October 13 at 7:00pm)
DAVID MOORE (October 15 at 7:30pm) DAVID MOORE reads from The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls. Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
RUSSELL SHORTO (October 16 at 7:00pm)
JULIA ALVAREZ (October 16 at 7:30pm) Event location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall
MARK A. NOLL (October 17 at 3:00pm) MARK A. NOLL reads from God and Race in American Politics: A Short History.
DENNIS LEHANE (October 17 at 7:00pm) Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Laurence H. Tribe (October 20 at 6:00pm) Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
Fred Pearce (October 20 at 7:30pm) Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Gregory Maguire (October 22 at 6:00pm) Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
Art Spiegelman (October 23 at 6:00pm) Art Spiegelman reads from Breakdowns: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!. Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
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Sandy Pentland (October 24 at 3:00pm)
Roy Blount (October 28 at 6:00pm) Roy Blount discusses Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory. Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
James Wood (October 29 at 7:00pm)
Linda J. Bilmes (October 29 at 7:30pm) Linda J. Bilmes reads from The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Irene Pepperberg (October 30 at 7:00pm) Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Leslie S. Klinger (October 31 at 7:00pm) followed by a Lit-Inspired Costume Party
Andrew Schlesinger presents his father's Journals (November 5 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome ANDREW SCHLESINGER (Veritas) for a presentation of his father Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s posthumously published Journals 1952-2000, which Andrew co-edited.
Louis Menard presents Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagnination (November 6 at 7:00pm)
John Stauffer (November 7 at 3:00pm)
Jay P. Dolan (November 10 at 7:00pm)
Steve Reifenberg (November 11 at 7:00pm)
Cass R. Sunstein (November 12 at 7:30pm) Cass R. Sunstein reads from Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
OED OCD! (November 13 at 5:30pm) Simon Winchester.; Jesse Sheidlower.; Ammon Shea.; Barbara Wallraff. Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
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Thomas J. Sugrue (November 14 at 3:00pm) Thomas J. Sugrue reads from Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.
Mia Kirshner (November 14 at 7:00pm)
Niall Ferguson (November 18 at 7:00pm)
Amitav Ghosh (November 19 at 7:00pm)
Robert J. Shiller (November 21 at 3:00pm)
Annie Leibovitz (November 24 at 7:00pm) Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
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Steve Fainaru (December 2 at 7:00pm)
David Hackett Fischer (December 3 at 7:00pm)
Sharon Waxman (December 3 at 7:00pm) Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
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Louisa Gilder (December 5 at 3:00pm)
Malcolm Gladwell (December 8 at 7:00pm) Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
History, Traditions, and Flavors: The Foods of Israeli and American Passover Celebrations (April 2 at 7:00pm) Joan Nathan. The Harvard University Dining Services Food Literacy Project, Harvard Hillel, and Harvard Book Store are pleased to welcome James Beard Award-winning food writer and cookbook author JOAN NATHAN for a discussion of the history, traditions, and flavors of Israeli and American Passover celebrations. The ... (more)Event location: Harvard Hillel, 52 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge
James Carroll (April 9 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning author and former Catholic priest JAMES CARROLL for a discussion of his new book, Practicing Catholic, a personal history of the American Catholic Church during Carroll’s lifetime and an explaination of why he is still a practicing Catholic. Practicing ... (more)
Walter Mosley (April 10 at 6:00pm) Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome the legendary WALTER MOSLEY for a presentation of the first book in his brand-new mystery series, The Long Fall. Event location: Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle Street Cambridge MA
JOSS WHEDON receives the Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism (April 10 at 8:00pm) Joss Whedon. The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, the Harvard Secular Society, and Cambridge Forum are pleased to welcome Academy-Award- and Emmy-Award-nominated writer and director JOSS WHEDON, recipient of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. Preceding the presentation of the award, Mr. Whedon ... (more)Event location: Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Wells Tower (April 14 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning fiction writer WELLS TOWER, whose first collection of stories is garnering raves.
George Scialabba (April 15 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome critic and Boston Globe book columnist GEORGE SCIALABBA for a discussion of the role of intellectuals in America, based on material in his new book, What Are Intellectuals Good For? Selected Essays. Mr. Scialabba will appear in conversation with essayist JOHN ... (more)
Gary Marcus (April 16 at 7:00pm) arvard Book Store is happy to welcome GARY MARCUS for a discussion of his newest book, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, just out in paperback. In Kluge, Gary Marcus argues convincingly that our minds are not as elegantly designed as we may believe. The imperfections result from a ... (more)
Susan Stewart (April 16 at 7:30pm) Cambridge Forum is pleased to welcome Princeton's SUSAN STEWART, award-winning poet and critic, for a discussion of poetry and perception. Stewart argues that poetry is a slow artform. She also argues that poetry most often treats what the poet sees out of the corner of his/her eye, not what is seen ... (more)Event location: First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge MA
Loren Graham (April 17 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome LOREN GRAHAM, professor emeritus of the history of science at MIT, for a discussion of his new book, coauthored with Jean-Michel Kantor, Naming Infinity. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to ... (more)
Slavoj Zizek (April 20 at 6:00pm) Slavoj Zizek discusses The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?. Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome once again renowned philosopher and critic SLAVOJ ZIZEK to the Brattle Theatre, this time for a discussion of his new book, The Monstrosity of Christ, in which he debates the meaning of theology, Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost, universality, and the foundations ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle Street Cambridge MA
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Arthur Phillips (April 21 at 7:00pm)
APRIL WINEDOWN with CHEF PETER DAVIS (April 22 at 7:00pm) Peter Davis promotes Fresh & Honest: Food from the Farms of New England and the Kitchen of Henrietta's Table. Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome Henrietta's Table Executive Chef PETER DAVIS for our April "Earthday" Winedown! Join us for a tasting, some wine, and a few words about Fresh & Honest: Food from the Farms of New England and the Kitchen of Henrietta's Table, Davis's new cookbook centered around ... (more)
Reza Aslan (April 23 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome best-selling author, religion scholar, and Middle East analyst for CBS News REZA ASLAN for a discussion of his new book, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror. How to Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the ideology ... (more)
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Raymond Arsenault (April 24 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning historian RAYMOND ARSENAULT for a discussion of his new book, The Sound of Freedom, which tells the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial—an early milestone in civil rights history—on the seventieth anniversary ... (more)
Alva Noe (April 24 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Berkeley philosopher ALVA NOE for a discussion of his newest book, in which he re-examines the problem of consciousness and proposes a startling solution: Do away with the two hundred-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain. ... (more)
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Maria Tatar (April 27 at 6:00pm) Harvard Book Store is very pleased to welcome MARIA TATAR, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard, for a discussion of her latest book, Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood. Professor Tatar will appear in converstation with Harvard's Homi K. Bhabha. Ever ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle Street Cambridge MA
Book club discussion of Perseoplis (April 27 at 7:00pm) The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book-discussion group, will talk about Marjane Satrapi's stunning graphic novel, Persepolis, for its April meeting. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic ... (more)
Richard Mason (April 28 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome RICHARD MASON for a reading from his new novel Natural Elements. The setting is London. The time is the present. Mother and daughter are choosing an assisted-living facility and have come to The Albany, a late-nineteenth-century Victorian mansion, the flagship ... (more)
T. J. Stiles (April 29 at 7:30pm) Cambridge Forum is honored to welcome award-winning author and historian T. J. STILES for a discussion of his newest book, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Event location: First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge MA
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Barbara Moran (April 30 at 7:00pm) arvard Book Store is very pleased to welcome award-winning science journalist and NOVA senior researcher BARBARA MORAN for a discussion of her latest book, The Day We Lost the H-Bomb. Based on a wealth of new research, Moran's new book is the dramatic and epic account of the greatest disaster in our ... (more)
Sarah Waters (May 1 at 6:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning and best-selling British novelist SARAH WATERS for a reading from her lastest work, The Little Stranger. Waters’s trilogy of Victorian novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith, earned her legions of fans around the world, a number ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle Street Cambridge MA
Ellen J. Langer (May 27 at 7:00pm)
Jose Luis Peixoto (May 28 at 7:00pm)
Rita Dove (June 1 at 7:00pm)
China Mieville (June 3 at 7:00pm) Event location: The Meeting Room at Two Arrow Street
Alice Hoffman (June 3 at 7:00pm)
Thomas Levenson (June 8 at 7:00pm)
Ali Sethi (June 10 at 7:00pm)
Reif Larsen (June 11 at 7:00pm)
Joseph O'Neill (June 15 at 7:00pm)
Kate Walbert (June 16 at 7:00pm)
Adam Reid (June 17 at 7:00pm) Adam Reid promotes Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes.
Chandler Burr (June 18 at 7:00pm)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (June 19 at 7:00pm)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (June 22 at 7:00pm)
Robert Wright (June 24 at 7:00pm)
Lisa M. Hamilton (June 25 at 7:00pm)
Ethan Gilsdorf (September 1 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is happy to welcome journalist ETHAN GILSDORF for the first author event of the fall, a discussion of his new book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks...and more! In addition to the usual reading, Q&A, and book-signing, for this event there will be a trivia contest with prizes; prizes ... (more)
Jennifer Carol Cook, Abbie Kozolchyk, Kathleen Spivack, and Terri Trespicio recount their out-of-Dodge experiences in The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (September 2 at 7:00pm) Jennifer Carol Cook discusses The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World .; Abbie Kozolchyk discusses The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World .; Kathleen Spivack discusses The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World .; Terri Trespicio discusses The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World . Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome Jennifer Carol Cook, Abbie Kozolchyk, Kathleen Spivack, and Terri Trespicio, contributors to The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009, for a night of readings from their anthologized travel writings.
H. M. NAQVI (September 3 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is happy to welcome Pakistani writer H.M. NAQVI for a reading from his first novel, Homeboy, which was mostly written during Mr. Naqvi's stay in an apartment above our store.
HOWARD DEAN (September 8 at 7:00pm) HOWARD DEAN reads from Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer . $5 tickets go on sale Tues., Aug. 18th. Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome physician, former Vermont governor, and recent chairman of the Democratic National Committee HOWARD DEAN, for a discussion of his new book Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform. In his new book, Howard Dean—the physician ... (more)Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
TOM VANDERBILT (September 9 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome design, technology, science, and culture writer TOM VANDERBILT for a discussion of his book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us), which is now out in paperback.
Nick McDonell (September 10 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Twelve author and recent Harvard grad NICK McDONELL for a reading from his third novel, An Expensive Education. "McDonell's third novel, a story of the messy consequences attendant upon a rogue American operation conducted against a Somalian freedom fighter, introduces ... (more)
Danya Ruttenberg (September 14 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store and Harvard Hillel are pleased to welcome Rabbi DANYA RUTTENBERG for a discussion of the book of essays she's edited on the Torah and sexuality, recently published in paperback, The Passionate Torah. "It is not often that an academic title about religion stimulates other parts of the ... (more)
CLEA SIMON , HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN (September 15 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is tickled to welcome mystery writers CLEA SIMON and HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN for a night of double the intrigue and charm. In Simon's latest, the first in the brand-new Dulcie Schwartz feline-filled mystery series—Dulcie's having an awful summer. Her beloved cat Mr. Grey's been put to ... (more)
HARVEY COX (September 16 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is delighted to host Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox as he discusses The Future of Faith, in which he examines the future of the Christian faith. Tracing the evolution of the faith through what he calls The Age of Faith and The Age of Belief, Professor Cox goes on to argue ... (more)
JESSE SHEIDLOWER (September 17 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is a little worried our moms will find out, but we're excited to host an evening with OED editor at large JESSE SHEIDLOWER and his new, in-depth look at that most offensive, rhymes-with-pluck, four-letter English obscenity, The F-Word. This second edition includes many new words and ... (more)
NICHOLAS THOMPSON (September 18 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome NICHOLAS THOMPSON for a discussion of his double biography, The Hawk and the Dove, a close look at the friendship of Paul Nitze and George Kennan, the former who believed that the best way to avoid a nuclear clash was to prepare to win one, and the latter a diplomat ... (more)
Nicholson Baker (September 21 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome NICHOLSON BAKER, acclaimed writer of both fiction and non-fiction, to discuss his new novel The Anthologist. The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder—a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. ... (more)
TRACY KIDDER (September 22 at 6:00pm) $5 tickets go on sale Tues., Sept. 1st. Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome back Pulitzer Prize-winning author and literary journalist TRACY KIDDER to discuss his most recent work, Strength in What Remains. Strength in What Remains is Kidder's account of Deogratias, or Deo, a young man from the ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
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JAMES ELLROY (September 23 at 6:00pm) $5 tickets go on sale Wed., Sept. 2nd. Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome beloved L.A. crime novelist JAMES ELLROY as he reads from his newest hair-raiser, Blood's a Rover. Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks ... (more)Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
Harvey A. Silverglate (September 24 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is honored to welcome local attorney and author HARVEY SILVERGLATE to discuss Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. Harvey Silverglate's new book reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors ... (more)
NELSON LICHTENSTEIN (September 25 at 3:00pm) Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome historian and award-winning author NELSON LICHTENSTEIN for a discussion of his new book, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business. “Offers penetrating insights…. Lichtenstein sheds valuable light on the technological reasons ... (more)
E. L. DOCTOROW (September 29 at 7:00pm) $28 tickets will go on sale Tues., Sept. 8th. (Tickets are redeemable for a copy of Mr. Doctorow's new novel before or at the event.) Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome legendary, award-winning American novelist E. L. DOCTOROW for a discussion of his newest novel, Homer & Langley. Doctorow once ... (more)Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Tad Friend (September 30 at 7:00pm) Tad Friend reads from Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor . Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome New Yorker staff writer TAD FRIEND as he gives us a glimpse of Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor. Tad Friend has an illustrious family tree which also happens to include numerous alcoholics, depressives, and assorted eccentrics. ... (more)
Kay Redfield Jamison (October 1 at 7:00pm) $5 tickets go on sale Thurs., Sept. 10th. Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT (October 2 at 12:30pm) Detailed ticket information for this event forthcoming. Tickets will go on sale Fri., Sept. 11th. Event location: UpStairs on the Square, 91 Winthrop St. Cambridge MA
Karen Armstron (October 2 at 7:00pm) $5 tickets go on sale Fri., Sept. 11th. Event location: First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF , SHERYL WuDUNN (October 5 at 7:00pm) $5 tickets will go on sale Mon., Sept. 14th. Event location: Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)
JILL McCORKLE (October 6 at 7:00pm)
RABIH ALAMEDDINE (October 7 at 7:00pm)
ARIEL SABAR discusses My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past (October 20 at 7:00pm) Event location: The Enormous Room Above The Central Kitchen 567 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA
James Orbinski (October 21 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store and Doctors Without Borders are pleased to welcome physician and humanitarian JAMES ORBINSKI for a conversation about his new book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century.
Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein (October 23 at 7:00pm) Harvard Book Store is tickled to welcome comedy and philosophy gurus THOMAS CATHCART and DANIEL KLEIN for a discussion of Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between.
MARGARET ATWOOD (October 23 at 7:00pm) $25 tickets are on sale now (proceeds from ticket sales will go to benefit a number of environmental organizations) THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD EVENT is a unique combination of a book launch, a 70-minute dramatic reading, and a fund-raising event for a number of environmental organizations. Margaret Atwood’s ... (more)Event location: First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge MA
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