Coincidentally, a few days after I wrote my post comparing British and American book covers last month, I went home to Britain for the holidays — and was struck by another subtle but (to me, anyway) interesting difference between the publishing industry in the two countries: reading in Britain is a lot more “lowbrow” than [...]
Entries Tagged as 'bookstores'
On National Character, Pt. 2
January 24th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Andrew · bookstores · publishing industry
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 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 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
November 5 events
November 3rd, 2009 No Comments
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7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mary Karr
Mary Karr visits the Booksmith to read from her first memoir in over ten years. Where The Liar’s Club brought to life Karr’s terrifying Texas childhood and Cherry her sexual awakening, Lit lets us know how she made it out alive. Told with Karr’s signature poetic language and wit, Lit is well [...]
Tags: author readings · books · bookstores · Independent bookstores
October 19 events
October 15th, 2009 No Comments
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Porter Square Books, 7 pm
Workshop for Publishing Poets is a series of readings by poets from the Workshop for Published Poets. Robin Pelzman, Matthew Sisson, and Suellen Wedmore will be reading.
Harvard Book Store, 7 pm
Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Kahn will be talking about her new book [...]
Tags: author readings · bookstores · Boston · poetry
October 17 events
October 14th, 2009 No Comments
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Stuart Weisberg on Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman
Location: Harvard Bookstore
Time: 4 pm
Alex R. Goldfeld on The North End: A Brief History of Boston’s Oldest Neighborhoods
Location: North End Branch Library
Time: 12 pm
Tags: author readings · books · bookstores · Independent bookstores · nonfiction · reading
