Of course, everybody knows that the AWP annual conference (being held this year in Denver, CO, if you haven’t heard) is all about making connections with other people in the industry, and hearing great authors speak, and discovering wonderful new journals that you’d otherwise never come across. But occasionally, at the end of a long [...]
Entries Tagged as 'author readings'
On Drinking Networking
February 24th, 2010 5 Comments
Tags: Andrew · author readings · Brooks · networking · publishing industry
George Saunders and Ha Jin
January 17th, 2010 No Comments
George Saunders and Ha Jin read earlier today at Boston Public Library, which was was pretty impressive. Don’t despair if you missed it—Saunders has three Boston readings scheduled for February (link), and I assume Ha Jin will read again at some point, since he teaches at BU. Though they differ stylistically, both readers share [...]
Tags: author readings · Brooks
December 3 Events
November 28th, 2009 No Comments
Mary Oliver - Evidence
Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. 6 pm
Harold Evans and Jason Epstein - My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times and Eating: A Memoir
Brattle Theater. 6 pm. $5
Ha Jin - A Good Fall
Porter Square Books. 7 pm
Tags: author readings · bookstores · Independent bookstores · nonfiction
December 2 Events
November 27th, 2009 No Comments
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Ha Jin - A Good Fall
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Time: 7 pm
Maria Tatar and Odds Bodkin - “Stories and Storytelling”
Location: First Parish Church
Time: 6:30 pm
Steve Almond - This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey
Location: Harvard Book Store
Time: 7 pm
An Evening of Poetry with Joan Houlihan and Jennifer Militello
Location: [...]
Tags: author readings · bookstores · Independent bookstores
December 1 Events
November 26th, 2009 No Comments
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Victor LaValle
Location: Barnes and Noble at Emerson College, 114 Boylston Street
Time: 6 pm
The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines Modern Manhood
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Time: 7 pm
Mo Lotman - Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950
Location: Harvard Book Store
Time: 7 pm
Tags: author readings · books · bookstores · Boston · Emerson College WLP Department · fiction · Independent bookstores · nonfiction
November 30 Events
November 24th, 2009 No Comments
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An Evening with Author William M. Bulger
Local author William M. Bulger will speak on his new book, James Michael Curley.
Time: 630 pm
Location: South Boston Branch Library
Tags: author readings · Boston Public Library
November 23 Events
November 20th, 2009 No Comments
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Elisa New - Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey From the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore
Location: Harvard Hillel
Time: 7:30 pm
John Buntin - L.A. Noir
Location: Porter Square Books
Time: 7 pm
Tags: author readings · bookstores · Independent bookstores
November 19 Events
November 17th, 2009 No Comments
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James Schwartz-In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Time: 7 pm
Gordon S. Wood-Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Location: Harvard book Store
Time: 7 pm
Hallie Ephron, Katherine Hall Page, and Hank Phillippi Ryan
Location: Porter Square Books
Time: 7 pm
Tags: author readings · bookstores · fiction · Independent bookstores · nonfiction
November 16 Events
November 10th, 2009 No Comments
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Steve Buckley - A Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports
Time: 7pm
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Cory Doctorow - Makers
Time: 7pm
Location: Harvard Book Store
Tags: author readings · books · Independent bookstores
November 10 Events
November 8th, 2009 No Comments
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Sebastian Stuart - The Hour Between
Jonathan Strong - Drawn from Life
Time: 7pm
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Dorothy Lamb Crawford - A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler’s Emigres and Exiles in Southern California
Time: 7pm
Location: Porter Square Books
Tags: author readings · bookstores · Boston · Independent bookstores
