Martha Frankel Reads from Hats and Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling Wednesday, February 27, 7 p.m. Harvard Coop, 3rd floor If you’ve mainly watched flashy Vegas poker on TV, you might think that the “hats and eyeglasses” in the title of Martha Frankel’s new memoir refer to the accessories of choice for poker players bent on getting good luck from their headgear or using tinted glasses to conceal any emotion in their eyes.......

Camille Paglia is back, and just as verbose as ever. She'll be in town tonight promoting her new book Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems. Paglia burst onto the literary scene with her book Sexual Personae, which takes Western culture, post-modernism and almost everything else to task. Known for her iconoclastic ideas on higher education, gay culture, art, feminism, and politics, over the years she's managed to piss off......