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Tuesday, February 9th at 7pm Dwayne Raymond was waiting tables in Provincetown when he became Norman Mailer’s personal assistant. Mornings tells the moving story of their ten-year friendship, which lasted through Mailer’s four final books and ended with his death. Touching, revelatory and completely unexpected, this book is a must for any fan. |
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Wednesday, February 10th at 7:30pm Nancy Kehoe is a nun and psychology clinician. In her first book, she makes a compelling argument for faith as a means to make decisions and order one’s life. With great empathy, she shares stories of the troubled people she has helped and writes of the way religious feeling has shaped her own choices. “Remarkable,” says Cokie Roberts. |
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Monday, February 15th at 7pm Kevin and Hannah Salwen – The Power of Half
Kevin Salwen was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and founded the magazine Motto. Hannah is his idealistic 15 year-old daughter. The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back is the inspiring story of what happened when Hannah convinced her family to sell their Atlanta home and gave half the money to charity. |
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Tuesday, February 16th at 7pm Brookline’s own Risa Miller (Welcome to Heavenly Heights) teaches writing at Emerson College. Her latest novel, set in Brookline and Israel, deftly explores the battlegrounds between parents and children and faith and reason, following two sisters floored by their father's sudden conversion to Orthodox Judaism and his refusal to return from the Holy Land. |
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Wednesday, February 17th at 6pm At the Coolidge Corner Theatre - tickets $5 One of the world’s best-selling mystery writers will pay a visit to Brookline in honor of what’s already being called his greatest thriller yet. Swedish sensation Henning Mankell, the man behind Wallander (portrayed by Kenneth Branagh in the PBS series of that name) has crafted a story that takes readers on a journey from a Swedish hamlet to Beijing and beyond. |
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Thursday, February 18th at 7pm Book-lovers beleaguered by the ascension of digital information can find solace in acclaimed writer Marilyn Johnson’s new work. Through smart and funny stories about both carbon- and binary-based information professionals, she provides us with an invaluable perspective on the cyber revolution and the ever-increasing necessity of librarians. |
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Friday, February 19th at 7pm Join us every third Friday during the Spring semester for the Breakwater Reading Series, featuring fiction and poetry by writers from UMass-Boston and Emerson MFA programs. For more information, please contact Angela: breakwater.reading@gmail.com |
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Tuesday, February 23rd at 7pm The editor of the Rose Metal Press Guide to Flash Fiction has written a collection of beautifully-observed short stories set in far-flung corners of the globe. Published by North Carolina's beloved indie Press 53, Where the Dog Star Never Glows is a wise and emotionally honest look at characters seeking – or seeking to lose – themselves. |
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Wednesday, February 24th at 7pm Marisa Meltzer, a freelance writer and regular contributor to the Daily Beast and the Awl, chronicled the rise and fall of the world’s best teen magazine in How Sassy Changed My Life. She brings the same wit and verve to Girl Power, an analysis of and paean to the early days of third-wave feminism, when Bikini Kill was a household name. |
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Thursday, February 25, 7pm
Ilan Stavans - Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years
Latino literary hero (Becoming Americans, Spanglish) and Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans visits the Booksmith in honor of his long-awaited biography of the late, great Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The first of a two-volume biography, the book covers Marquez’s life until the publication of 100 Years of Solitude.
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Tuesday, March 2, 7pm The poems in January O’Neil’s debut collection “offer masterfully complex portraits of childhood—both through the speaker’s memory and observations of her own children,” says Denise Duhamel. “O’Neil’s collection is substantial, playful, and compassionate.” Joining her is Nin Andrews, whose work has been called outrageous, scandalous & beautiful. |
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Wednesday, March 3, 7pm In 2001, two Massachusetts nurses were investigated for murder when their patient – whom they had been helping with debilitating pain – died. Guggenheim Fellow Dr. Lewis Cohen examines this case as part of a larger ideological debate raging in hospitals everywhere: how should the dying and suffering be treated? |
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Thursday, March 4, 7pm Wildly acclaimed novelist Katharine Weber (Triangle, The Music Lesson) returns with a novel about the daughter of a repressed New England family who tries to mold herself into the model Jewish wife when she marries into the Ziplinskys, owners of Zip’s Candies. Says the New York Times: “True Confections is a great American tale.” Also: free candy! |
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Saturday, March 6, 7pm Judith Warner (Perfect Madness; the columnist of the New York Times’ “Domestic Disturbances”) spoke with a cross section of parents, psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, researchers, and therapists over the course of five years to find out how meds are affecting our children. The enlightening result is a wake-up call. |
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Wednesday, March 10, 7pm “Sam Lipsyte can get blood out of a stone” – Edmund White. If the Booksmith has prayers, they’ve been answered: the funniest writer in America is coming to Brookline. Sam Lipsyte (Home Land, Venus Drive) has written his third novel, The Ask, a screed against university development, capitalism, artistic leanings, and the middle classes. Après Lipsyte, le déluge. |
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Thursday, March 11, 6pm A discussion with the co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles, the person behind The Mortal Instruments and the author of Pretty Monsters? Don’t mind if we do! The Booksmith presents a YA extravaganza to benefit Franciscan Hospital for Children. Email your questions for the authors to hollycassandrakelly@gmail.com. The discussion will be followed by a signing back at the Booksmith. |
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Monday, March 15, 7pm Have you ever wanted to write nonfiction? Learn how at the Booksmith’s first-ever writing workshop! Billerica-based writing coach Sherry Ellis (Now Write, Illuminating Fiction) celebrates the release of her latest writing guide, Now Write! Nonfiction with a writing class. Joining her will be fellow teachers Hershman and Cohen. During this workshop you will have the opportunity to start some of the writing exercises included in the book. |
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Wednesday, March 17, 7pm Follow Stanford professor Elif Batuman as she visits Tolstoy's estate to investigate a possible murder and loses Isaac Babel's family at the airport. Batuman (Harper’s, The New Yorker, LRB and n+1) has literally walked a mile in the footsteps of her heroes in a sharp, funny, personal literary history that takes us from California to the Caucasus. |
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Thursday, March 18, 7pm An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch - Ten Walks/Two Talks With Damon Krukowski and Matvei Yankelevich Ugly Duckling is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit art and publishing collective. Join them as they celebrate the release of Ten Walks/Two Talks, a book Time Out describes as “philosophical, formally innovative and fascinating." Also appearing are Damon Krukowski (The Memory Theater Burned, of bands Galaxie 500 & Damon and Naomi) and Matvei Yankelevich (Boris by the Sea), one of the press’s founders. |
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Friday, March 19, 7pm The Breakwater Reading Series features fiction, non-fiction and poetry by writers from UMass-Boston and Emerson College MFA programs. Join us on the third Friday each month to hear these extraordinary emerging voices. For more information, please contact Angela: breakwater.reading@gmail.com |
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Thursday, March 25, 7pm Sonya Chung teaches writing at NYU and the Gotham Writer’s Workshop. Long for This World centers around a Korean family in America. Kate Walbert calls it "an intricately structured and powerfully resonant portrait of lives lived at the crossroads of culture, and a family torn between the old world and the new… a powerful debut from a young writer of great talent and promise." |
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Monday, March 29, 7pm Memoirist (The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, Enough About You), sportswriter (Body Politic, Baseball Is Just Baseball) novelist (A Handbook for Drowning, Dead Languages) and Guggenheim Fellow David Shields will visit the Booksmith in honor of his latest work, Reality Hunger, that left Jonathan Lethem “astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed.” |
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