Results tagged “Boston Book Events”

Monday, November 16 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store *Cory Doctorow, Makers 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Steve Buckley, A Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports

Sunday, November 8 All day: Harvard Book Store’s annual frequent buyer sale. Customers who have signed up for a Frequent Buyer Card BEFORE November 8th will be eligible to receive 20% off all purchases of new, used and bargain books, as well as data-based Print on Demand titles and non-book items throughout the store.

November's not quite as packed with book events as October was, but some big names are still coming to town. The list includes Al Gore and David Plouffe, as well as Jonathan Safran Foer, Cory Doctorow (of BoingBoing) and John Krasinksi, who's adapted David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men for the screen. Harvard Book Store is also hosting a special sale for "frequent buyers," though you must sign up for the club before November 8 to qualify. Check the list to see what your favorite events might be this month.

Sunday, October 25 Webcast of Kate DiCamillo reading The Magician’s Elephant, Porter Square Books, 4:00 pm Submit questions to webcast@candlewick.com. 7:00 PM, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $25 *Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

It's the week of the Boston Book Festival, which will hit town on Saturday the 24th, bringing in big names like Orhan Pamuk and John Hogdman alongside lesser-known folks. Make sure to attend to get a new perspective on books in the 21st century. Bostonist will have interviews with Book Festival founder Deborah Porter and tech expert Nicholas Negroponte later this week. If you can't make it to the festival, at least check out one of the other literary events going on about town.

Tuesday, September 29 10:00 am, Porter Square Books Shannon Hale, Forest Born

Monday, September 21

Monday, September 14 7:00 pm, Enormous Room Four Stories featuring Lisa Borders, Steven Brykman, Tim Horvath, and Sebastian Stuart 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism

Even if you can't make some of the interesting events this week, be sure to check out the Bookish Ball in Harvard Square on Saturday for some literary fun.

Summer was getting to be a snooze, but September is stepping it up. The big names don't stop with Tracy Kidder and Nicholson Baker but go all the way up to Howard Dean and E.L. Doctorow—and that's just at Harvard (which also hosts a Bookish Ball on the 12th). You'll definitely need to hit the books this fall in preparation for these awesome author events.

Too sweaty to read? Enjoy air conditioning at an indoor book event this week.

Tuesday, August 18 7pm 
at Brookline Booksmith Christine Lehner,
Absent A Miracle

 Brigid Pasulka,
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True

6:30pm at BPL Hyde Park Branch Creating Universes, How to Create a World with Dr. David Joutras, author of "The Mole Chronicles" and "Brother's Keepers."

Monday, August 3 7pm at Brookline Booksmith Lydia Peelle, Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing

Sunday, July 19 7:00 p.m., Grub Street (160 Boylston) Dirty Water Reading Series with Ben Stein and James Scott

We're a little late with the book events this week, so some of this stuff is going on, uh, right now. Maybe if you hurry you can catch the end of something, or meet the authors on their way out. If not today, there's always tomorrow. Or Thursday. But no book events on the weekend? There must be something going on—anyone have some info?

Wednesday, July 1

Adam Ried, Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes

Bloomsday's on Tuesday, but BC celebrates it today with Bloomsday Boston 2009 featuring readings, performances, and other celebrations of James Joyce.

Monday, June 8, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Frances Osborne, The Bolter

Sunday, May 24

Saturday, May 2 2:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose (of Postcards from Yo Momma), Love, Mom

Monday, April 20 6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre, $5 Slavoj Zizek, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? Sponsored by Harvard Book Store

This week will be as full of book events as of leftover Easter candy. Everyone from Jay McInerney to Jim Lehrer is here, joined by Wells Tower (twice!) and even a couple of poets. Check out both known and new authors this week.

From Jay McInerny to Jim Lehrer to Germaine Greer to Homi Bhabha, this April is an insane month for book events. If the lovely spring weather (hey, we can dream) doesn't keep you outside, you'll have plenty of indoor entertainment at bookstores and libraries around town. Oh, and don't forget that April is National Poetry Month, aka the time when all the poetry books come out and people pretend to care about poems for a few weeks. Uplifting!

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This is one sexy week of books! Slime it up with Tucker Max tomorrow at the Back Bay Borders or learn how to combat the sexualization of children Thursday at Porter Square Books. The prudish among us can keep their minds on the economy by attending Robert G. Kaiser's Cambridge Forum on lobbying this Wednesday.