Book events were dwindling pretty sadly in December, but 2010 sees them back in full force, with everyone from Joseph Stiglitz to Raj Patel unleashing brainpower on Boston. Gear up for the new year by hitting the books... and then the bookstores... to spark some new ideas. Innovative events include a wine tasting, a mini-conference on climate change, and Joe Pernice's unique novel/soundtrack combo, so there's more than enough to entertain even the less literarily inclined.
Monday, January 4
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Workshop for Published Poets
Emily Ferrara, The Alchemy of Grief
Eric Hyett, English Through Pictures
Lee Firestone, Cocktail Shaker
Tuesday, January 5
6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
*Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Jonathan Edlow, M.D. - The Deadly Dinner Party
Wednesday, January 6
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Sherry Ellis, Illuminating Fiction
In conversation with Julia Glass and Margot Livesey
Thursday, January 7
6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5 (sold out)
*Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
6:00 pm, Boston Public Library
Toby Lester - The Fourth Part Of The World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
Co-presented with the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center and the Boston Map Society
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Benoit Denizet-Lewis - American Voyeur
Friday, January 8
6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Mika Brzezinski, All Things at Once
Saturday, January 9
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Karen Pryor, Reaching the Animal Mind
Monday, January 11
6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
With NPR's On Point producer John Wihbey
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite
7:30pm, Brookline Booksmith
Booksmith Book Club discusses Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Tuesday, January 12
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Anne Cabot Wyman, Kipling's Cat: A Memoir of My Father
Wednesday, January 13
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Gretchen Rubin - The Happiness Project
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
Thursday, January 14
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
A Taste of Sweet Bordeaux: A wine tasting with Aline Baly
7:00 pm, Lizard Lounge
Joe Pernice, It Feels So Good When I Stop (combination novel and soundtrack)
Friday, January 15
7:00 pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Saturday, January 16
11:00 am, Forest Hills Cemetery
Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Jamaica Plain, MA
Presented by the Jamaica Plain Historical Society
4:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Tracy Chevalier - Remarkable Creatures
Sunday, January 17
11:00 am, Porter Square Books
PSB Book Club will be discussing Broccoli and Other Tales of Love and Food. Visit the Book Club page for more information.
1:30 pm, Boston Public Library
*George Saunders and Ha Jin
Tuesday, January 19
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Adriana Trigiani - Very Valentine
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves: A Novel
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Maxim Shrayer, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories
Wednesday, January 20
6:30 pm and 9:30 pm, Cafe 939
Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb
with music from Eric Martin (of the Neats and Illyrians) and Drew O’Doherty at 7; Bill Janovitz and Chris Colbourn of Buffalo Tom, as well as Franc Graham at 9:30
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Jonathan Dee - The Privileges
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Charlotte Dennett, The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encountered Along the Way
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Peniel Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights
7:30 pm, Harvard Book Store, Lower Level
The Philosophy Café discusses "Philosophy Off the Cuff: Are Intuitions Indispensable?"
Thursday, January 21
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Celia Gilbert - Something to Exchange
Ruth Lepson - I Went Looking For You
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Boston Comics Roundtable, Inbound #4, A Comic Book History of Boston
Monday, January 25
6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
with noted editor Cullen Murphy
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
The Harvard Square Book Circle discusses On the Origin of Species
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Tuesday, January 26
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Gail Godwin - Unfinished Desires
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
January Winedown for Let's Go
Featuring an informal budget travel workshop
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Steve Almond, Sherry Ellis, Lise Haines, Elizabeth Searle - Illuminating Fiction: Today's Best Writers of Fiction
Wednesday, January 27
6:00 pm, Boston Public Library
Lowell Lecture: Arthur Frommer
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Sadie Jones - Small Wars
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
David M. Walker, Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
Thursday, January 28
1:00 pm, First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum presents A Mini-Conference on Global Climate Change
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Amy Bloom, Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Chris Farrell - The New Frugality
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Sophia Pappas, Good Morning Children
Saturday, January 30
4:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Robert S. Lyons, On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell
with Upton Bell
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