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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
Monday, June 1, 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Dr. Nick Trout, Tell me Where It Hurts Monday, June 1st 7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store *Rita Dove, Sonata Mulattica: Poems
826 Boston, Dave Eggers' less-ironic-than-usual literary endeavor, teaches kids about writing. It's a noble cause, and you can join it tonight for only $150. 826's spring benefit happens this evening at the WilmerHale Conference Center (60 State Street, 26th floor—how convenient for 826!). There will be beautiful views, talented people (Steve Almond! Julia Glass!), and copies of 2% of 2% of All the World's Stories, a book of bedtime stories by 826 Boston workshop participants. If you can't (afford to) attend tonight, the book will be on sale at 826 after the event. We're just in it for the frog wars. For the reading/writing-minded, Thursday promises a Literary Death Match to boot.
Monday, May 18 7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store *Phillip Lopate, Notes on Sontag 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Peter Abrahams, Reality Check 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith (Coolidge Corner Theatre) Lee Woodruff, Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress
Vernacular Spring Gala Friday, May 15 from 7 - 10 pm at Grub Street (160 Boylston St) $3 advance / $5 doors [ more info ]
Aleksandar Hemon is appearing at the Harvard Book Store this Friday, May 15, at 7 P.M.
Monday, May 11 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Selden Edwards, The Little Book 7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store Colm Toibin, Brooklyn
Saturday, May 2 2:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose (of Postcards from Yo Momma), Love, Mom
Saturday, April 25 through Sunday, April 26 The Muse and the Marketplace, Park Plaza Hotel (50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street) Sponsored by Grub Street What better way for you, a starving artist, to spend $320 than on a weekend of schmoozing with fellow writers, literary agents, publishers, and other folks guaranteed to help your book make it on a bestseller list? If this event can't make you a success, maybe you should just quit trying.
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.
ZOMG! Joss Whedon will be here on Friday! To win an award for cultural humanism! Uh, too bad it's sold out. Maybe you can stand outside straining to hear and hoping for a glimpse of Joss... or you could just wait for our writeup of the event. We might even liveblog it! We know you are holding your breath. We encourage you to breathe, and try some poetry with Robert Pinsky on Tuesday, or console yourself with Walter Mosley on Friday.
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!
behind the infamous Gardner heist—though ultimately offering few concrete answers.
March brings us Women's History Month and a host of book events, some of them female-focused. From fine fiction to incisive historical analysis, the readings this month run the gamut. Big names are largely absent, but big ideas still abound.
Eugene Mirman is a comedian. He has done several wonderful things. This coming Wednesday—Feb. 25th, for calendar nerds—at 7PM, he will be reading from his new self-help book The Will to Whatevs at the Brookline Booksmith.
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.
7pm, free!
