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Harvard Book Store

1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

617-661-1515; infoharvard.com

New/Used: Not set

Web site: http://www.harvard.com

Events: http://www.harvard.com/events/ (updated February 2009)

Twitter account: @HarvardBooks

Added by: ablachly.  Contacted: Not contacted.  Venue ID: 7

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Comment wall

I frequently attend readings at Harvard Bookstore so I am concerned as to why only a September 23 event shows up here when there are readings almost every week this summer including next week when Junot Diaz will be speaking. How do we get appropriate updates on upcoming events at Harvard Bookstore?
July 2008 by HMOKeefe
This has ben one of my favorite bookstores for years, but I was shocked this evening when I showed up at Harvard Memorial Church for a reading and book signing by Salman Rushdie and was confronted by a woman who identified herself as the "event coordinator" from Harvard Book Store and informed me that unless I had purchased a $5 ticket to the reading in advance, I would not be allowed in. There is no mention of this at Random House's author events page (). Aside from the poor taste of charging for tickets to an author signing, this was very unprofessionally advertised and handled by their staff at the door of what the publisher described as a public event.
July 2008 by parker
I'd know that blurry backdrop anywhere! http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/...
May 2008 by timspalding
Check out the basement for used books and a fantastic remainders section.
April 2008 by ablachly
The best general and academic bookstore in Harvard Square.
March 2008 by timspalding

Upcoming events

Jun
18
Philipp Meyer will be promoting The Son (Tuesday, June 18 at 7pm)
Philipp Meyer will be promoting The Son (added from HarperCollins)
Jun
21
John Edward Huth, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way (Friday, June 21 at 7pm)
John Edward Huth, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store (added from Harvard University Press)
Jun
26
Simon Critchley, Jamieson Webster (Wednesday, June 26 at 7pm)
Simon Critchley (Stay, Illusion!, The book of dead philosophers)
Jamieson Webster (Stay, Illusion!)

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He also teaches at Tilburg University and the European Graduate School. His many books include Very Little . . . Almost Nothing, The Faith of the Faithless, and The book of dead philosophers. He is the series moderator of The Stone, a philosophy column in The New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and Its Sublimation and has written for Apology, Cabinet, The New York Times, and many psychoanalytic publications. She teaches at Eugene Lang College at the New School and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York. (added from Random House)
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Jul
10
J. Courtney Sullivan (Wednesday, July 10 at 7pm)
J. Courtney Sullivan (Commencement, Maine, The engagements)

J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel Commencement. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, New York, Elle, Glamour, Allure, and Men’s Vogue, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.J. Courney Sullivan is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (www.rhspeakers.com) (added from Random House)… (more)
Jul
11
Daniel Bergner will be promoting What Do Women Want? (Thursday, July 11 at 7pm)
Daniel Bergner will be promoting What Do Women Want? (added from HarperCollins)
Jul
16
Andrew Sean Greer will be promoting The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (Tuesday, July 16 at 7pm)
Andrew Sean Greer will be promoting The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (added from HarperCollins)
Jul
31
Dick Lehr (Wednesday, July 31 at 7pm)
Dick Lehr (Whitey) (added from Random House)
Sep
6
Robert M. Neer, Napalm: An American Biography (Friday, September 6 at 3pm)
Robert M. Neer, Napalm: An American Biography

Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store (added from Harvard University Press)
Sep
12
Steve Yarbrough (Thursday, September 12 at 7pm)
Steve Yarbrough (Prisoners of war, Safe from the Neighbors, The End of California, Visible Spirits, The Realm of Last Chances)

Born in Indianola, Mississippi, Steve Yarbrough is the author of four previous novels and three collections of stories. A PEN/Faulkner finalist, he has received the Mississippi Authors Award, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Award, and an award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. He now teaches at Emerson College and lives with his wife in Stoneham, Massachusetts. (added from Random House)… (more)
Oct
10
Jonathan Lethem (Thursday, October 10 at 6pm)
Jonathan Lethem (The Man Who Was Thursday, Dombey and Son, As She Climbed Across the Table, Chronic City, Fortress of solitude, Girl in Landscape, Men and cartoons, Motherless Brooklyn, The Disappointment Artist, The Fortress of Solitude, The Vintage Book of Amnesia, You Don't Love Me Yet, Dissident Gardens, The Ecstasy of Influence, Mind of an Outlaw)

Jonathan Lethem is the author of eight novels, including most recently Dissident Gardens. A recipient of the MacArthur fellowship, Lethem has published his stories and essays in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The New York Times, among others. He lives in California. (added from Random House)
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Jan
23
Eric Asimov will be promoting How to Love Wine (Thursday, January 23, 2014 at unknown time)
Eric Asimov will be promoting How to Love Wine (added from HarperCollins)
Feb
1
Vivek Bald, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 3pm)
Vivek Bald, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store (added from Harvard University Press)
Feb
22
Teddy Wayne (Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 07am)
Teddy Wayne, the author of Kapitoil, is the winner of a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award and a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He lives in New York. (added from Simon & Schuster)
Feb
22
John Burt, Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict (Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 3pm)
John Burt, Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store (added from Harvard University Press)
Mar
27
Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 7pm)
Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store (added from Harvard University Press)
Apr
8
Jess Walter will be promoting Beautiful Ruins (Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 7pm)
Jess Walter will be promoting Beautiful Ruins (added from HarperCollins)
Apr
9
Jacqueline Winspear will be promoting Leaving Everything Most Loved (Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 7pm)
Jacqueline Winspear will be promoting Leaving Everything Most Loved (added from HarperCollins)
May
21
Bill Cheng will be promoting Southern Cross the Dog (Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 7pm)
Bill Cheng will be promoting Southern cross the dog (added from HarperCollins)
May
23
Abigail Tarttelin (Friday, May 23, 2014 at 7pm)
Abigail Tarttelin is a writer, an actress, and the book editor for Phoenix magazine in the UK. She lives in London. Find out more at AbigailTarttelin.com. (added from Simon & Schuster)
May
26
Margalit Fox will be promoting The Riddle of the Labyrinth (Monday, May 26, 2014 at 7pm)
Margalit Fox will be promoting The Riddle of the Labyrinth (added from HarperCollins)
Jun
3
Daphne Kalotay will be promoting Sight Reading (Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 7pm)
Daphne Kalotay will be promoting Sight Reading (added from HarperCollins)
Jun
11
Marjan Kamali will be promoting Together Tea (Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 7pm)
Marjan Kamali will be promoting Together Tea (added from HarperCollins)

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