Local Readings and Events

Jun
24

Elissa Altman

Elissa Altman discusses Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create, in conversation with Tova Mirvis, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here

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Jun
25

Kate Marvel

Kate Marvel discusses Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, in conversation with Miriam Wasser, at Brattle Theatre. Find more information here

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Jun
25

John Sanbonmatsu

John Sanbonmatsu discusses The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, in conversation with Frances Moore Lappé, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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Jun
29

Janice Hechter

Janice Hechter discusses Where Are the Women? The Girl Scouts' Campaign for the First Statue of Women in Central Park at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here

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Jun
30

André Aciman

André Aciman discusses Room on the Sea: Three Novellas, in conversation with Allegra Goodman, at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.

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Jul
1

Alex Beam

Alex Beam discusses Wallace Stegner: Dean of Western Writers, in conversation with Joan Wickersham, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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Jul
8

Brian C. Black

Brian C. Black discusses Ike’s Road Trip: How Eisenhower's 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel, in conversation with Ted Widmer, at American Ancestors. Find more information here.

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Jul
8

Tracy Slater

Tracy Slater discusses Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp at Newtonville Books. Find more information here

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Jul
10

Fred Mollin

Fred Mollin discusses Unplugged: Stories and Secrets from a Life of Making Records, Scoring Film, and Working with the Legends of Music at Beacon Hill Books and Café. Find more information here

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Jul
15

Two Page Tuesday

Two Page Tuesday, with Fabienne François Keck, Jessica A. Kent, Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Kate Pyontek, Leticia Priebe Rocha, Logan Buckley, and Meagan Masterman, at Charlie's Kitchen. Find more information here.

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Jul
16

Chris Berdik

Chris Berdik discusses Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World — and How We Can Take It Back, in conversation with Ben Markham, at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here

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Jul
16

Diane Kiesel

Diane Kiesel discusses When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law, in conversation with Michael Greenburg, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here

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Jul
17

Mary Noé

Mary Noé discusses The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan, A Life of Arsenic, Anarchy and Intrigue at Boston Public Library: Jamaica Plain. Find more information here

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Jul
17

Dave Wedge

Dave Wedge discusses Blood & Hate: The Untold Story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler's Battle for Glory at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here

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Jul
19

Susan Pranger

Susan Pranger discusses Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World at Boston Public Library: Jamaica Plain. Find more information here

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Jul
20

Joseph Lee

Joseph Lee discusses Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity at Peabody Essex Museum. Find more information here

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Jul
22

Jessa Crispin

Jessa Crispin discusses What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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Jul
23

Zara Anishanslin

Zara Anishanslin discusses The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Find more information here

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Jul
23

Dave Wedge

Dave Wedge discusses Blood & Hate: The Untold Story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler's Battle for Glory, in conversation with Emily Sweeney, at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here

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Jul
28

Henry Wiencek

Henry Wiencek discusses Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here

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Jun
23

Kevin Sack

Kevin Sack discusses Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church, in conversation with Jim Dao, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Bennett Parten and Manisha Sinha

Bennett Parten discusses Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation and Manisha Sinha discusses The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 at American Ancestors. Find more information here

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