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Thursday, August 26 at 7pm Boston-bred journalist Alexander Zaitchik’s Salon.com exposé of Glenn Beck generated so much momentum that Beck denounced it on his show. In Common Nonsense, Zaitchik explains why Beck is always crying, why he has so many conservative enemies, why he’s so fond of conspiracy theories and why he’s bad for America. |
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Thursday, September 2, 7pm Alan Khazei is the co-founder of City Year and founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc. In 2009, he ran for the U.S. Senate. In his new book, Big Citizenship, he shares his insight into how pragmatic social action can change America for the better. |
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Tuesday, September 7, 7pm Brookline author and B.U. alum Daphne Kalotay (Calamity and Other Stories) returns to the Booksmith for the launch of her first novel. A rumination on art and beauty under oppression, Russian Winter tells the tale of a former Bolshoi ballerina who flees to Boston but is followed by her past. |
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Thursday, September 9, 7pm Local poet and founding director of Boston’s 826 youth writing center Daniel Johnson presents a performance piece like no other. Johnson will read from his recent collection, How to Catch a Falling Knife, accompanied by video and live music. |
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Saturday, September 11, 5pm We're pretty happy. In fact, we're thrilled! The bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale swings by the store to read from her new novel, Getting to Happy, a follow up to Waiting that revisits Savannah and the others fifteen years on. |
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Tuesday, September 14, 7pm Author of the National Book Award finalist Gorgeous Lies and New York Times Notable Book Bright Angel Time Martha McPhee will read from her new novel Dear Money. This satirical tale of boom and bust follows a struggling writer who transforms into a high-power bond trader during Wall Street’s second gilded age. |
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Wednesday, September 15, 6pm Master satirist Gary Shteyngart's new novel places a classic love story in a future where books are obsolete and the rich live forever. The author of Absurdistan and one of The New Yorker's top 20 writers under 40, Shteyngart is sure to give a stellar reading of this sweet, hilarious, and super sad story. Come laugh with us at the Coolidge and get your own signed "printed, bound media artifact." |
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Thursday, September 16, 6pm Author of the beautiful bestseller Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson returns with a humorous and heartbreaking account of a mother and her grown son trying to make do as they deal with cancer and divorce during the collapse of the Soviet Union. Don’t miss this chance to see one of the world's true literary luminaries at the Coolidge. |
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Friday, September 17, 7pm Join us in our Readers' and Writers' room for a night of new stories, essays, and poems by MFA candidates from Emerson and UMass Boston. Come watch the fresh faces of future literary greatness so that you can say you saw them before they even had publicists. For more information, visit breakwaterreadingseries.blogspot.com. |
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Tuesday, September 21, 7pm In early 20th century Boston, The Watch and Ward Society put a stranglehold on morally suspect material, from “hoochy-coochy” dancers to Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and Upton Sinclair’s Oil. Join Tufts professor Neil Miller as he reads from this fascinating history. Reading may be cancelled if deemed inappropriate (just kidding). |
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Wednesday, September 22, 6pm Sci-fi legend William Gibson, whose groundbreaking Neuromancer won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards, comes to the Coolidge to read from his newest work, Zero History. This technological thriller traces the path of journalist Hollis Henry as she follows her powerful employer and a unique team into a world of arms dealing and uncontrollable danger. |
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Thursday, September 23, 6pm Host of NPR's All Things Considered Michele Norris set out to track talk of race throughout the US in the age of Obama and unearthed instead her own family's hidden past. Come to the Coolidge to hear her read from her first book, an intensely personal, poignant snapshot of race in America. |
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Friday, September 24, 7pm Our staff step out from behind the registers to showcase their writing and art in support of our own Ric Amante’s wonderful new poetry collection, Digging In. Come and see what we do when we’re not restocking Twilight. Guaranteed to be a good time. |
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Monday, September 27, 7pm The author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Bending Heaven follows magistrate Laurence Dunne as he tries to explain how 173 people died seeking shelter from a German air raid in a London Underground station. Kane’s brilliant first novel presents a beautiful, humane portrait of how we search for answers when faced with the incomprehensible. |
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Tuesday, September 28, 7pm Dial the date into your time machine: Charles Yu, winner of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, will be here for his debut novel. Startling, funny and mind-blowing, it follows the life of a time-travel technician trying to find his father in a paradoxical world at the edge of fiction. |
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Wednesday, September 29, 7pm Brookline's Thea Singer has reported on science and health for The Nation, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. For her new book, she's gathered the latest scientific findings on the mental and physical impact of stress on women and explains how small life changes can make you live longer, look younger and feel better. |
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Tuesday, October 5 at 7pm Linda Hammerick experiences words as flavors and falls in love with names. But when a tragedy calls her back home to North Carolina, she is brought to face a family and a history she has never known. Monique Truong is the award-winning author of the bestselling The Book of Salt. |
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Wednesday, October 6 at 7pm Master storyteller Antonya Nelson (Nothing Right, Female Trouble) comes to the Booksmith to read from her first novel in ten years. Bound is a tale of love and secrets set in the Wichita of Nelson’s childhood, a city plagued by the BTK serial killer.
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Thursday, October 7 at 7pm Between 1894 and 1897, Joseph Vacher murdered and mutilated 25 people in the French countryside. Co-director of BU’s Center for Science and Medical Journalism Douglas Starr (Blood) follows Vacher and famed criminologist Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne in a fascinating and horrifying history at the dawn of modern forensics. |
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Tuesday, October 12 at 7pm Clarke set the literary world aflame with his novel An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England. In his new book, darkly funny and touchingly absurd, he takes on the voice of a precocious but delusional nine-year-old who is convinced he can save his comatose (awake, but absent) father by finding the (dead) author Frederick Exley. |
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Wednesday, October 13 at 7pm Brookline's Amir Aczel (Uranium Wars, The Jesuit and the Skull) tackles the beginning of the universe with an in-depth exploration of humanity’s most ambitious experiment to date: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Come learn what a Higgs-Boson particle is from one of our favorite science writers. |
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Thursday, October 14 at 7pm Amnesty International’s Regional Director, Associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and local author Joshua Rubenstein has edited the largest English-language collection of first-person accounts of the Holocaust in Soviet territories. Come listen to him discuss these harrowing tales of atrocity and survival. |
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Friday, October 15 at 7pm Join us in our Readers’ and Writers’ room for a night of new stories, essays, and poems by MFA candidates from Emerson and UMass Boston. One day you can tell your grandkids that you walked uphill both ways to see literature’s stars before they were big. For more information, visit breakwaterreadingseries.blogspot.com. |
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Tuesday, October 19 at 7pm When beloved Brookline professor and movie marketer Joseph Helfgot passed away during a heart operation, his family was given a tough choice: whether or not to donate his tissue for the Northeast’s first face transplant. Joseph’s widow tells a touching and surprising tale, weaving together the lives of two men through one medical miracle. |
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Wednesday, October 20 at 7pm National Book Award winner, NEA fellow, local author and friend of the store Julia Glass (Three Junes) comes to read from her new novel. It is the quirky, charming, and beautiful story of Percy Darling, a 70-year-old recluse and widower who finds the world encroaching on his solitary life when he opens his barn to a progressive preschool. |
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Thursday, October 21 at 6pm * At the Coolidge Corner Theatre - Tickets on sale 9/1 - $5 * There are few better places to be than Madhur Jaffrey’s kitchen. The actress-turned-cooking-guru has won five James Beard Foundation awards and is a world authority on Indian cuisine. Come join us at the Coolidge Corner Theatre for a taste of her new book, which includes simple South Asian recipes perfect for time-pressed cooks. |
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Monday, October 25 at 7pm Don’t miss one of America’s most promising writers reading from his new novel, the tale of an Ethiopian émigré family striking out for Tennessee. Dinaw Mengestu is author of the New York Times’ Notable Book The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and was recently named one of the top 20 writers under the age of 40 by The New Yorker. |
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Tuesday, October 26 at 7pm The author of Anywhere but Here and A Regular Guy comes to share her first novel in ten years. The story follows Claire, a Hollywood housewife, and Lola, the Philippine mother she hires as a nanny, through issues of marriage, motherhood, and money. |
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Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm Founder of the Boston Wine School, wine writer, and local oenophile extraordinaire Jonathon Alsop comes to talk about his Wine Lover’s Devotional, 365 daily lessons that will teach you to pair, swish, and savor with the pros. Tasting included for those over 21. |
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Thursday, October 28 at 7pm Join us for the launch of local author Bruce Macbain’s novel of murder and intrigue in Ancient Rome. When a known senatorial informer and libertine is found murdered, suspicion falls on his house slaves, and Plinius Secundus must find the man’s murderer or witness the slaves being burned alive in the arena as part of the Roman Games. |
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Don't miss our terrific lineup at the Coolidge in November! Monday, November 1 at 6pm Friday, November 5 at 6pm Tuesday, November 30 at 6pm |
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Check out all of the great events at our sister store Wellesley Booksmith, including the finest in contemporary children's and young adult authors. Stay super up-to-date with the event series on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook. |
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