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Sebastian Junger at Harvard Book Store June 7

June 4th, 2010 1 Comment

This is late notice, but worth mentioning.
Sebastian Junger will be at Harvard Bookstore Monday, June 7 at 6pm, to talk about his new book War and, presumably, a documentary he made with Tim Hetherington called Restrepo (which won the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries at Sundance Film Festival 2010).  Both works grew out of Junger’s [...]

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Without Irony, You Are Dead: Tim O’Brien at the Harvard Book Store Reading Series — Guest Post by Wilmur Makepeace O’Toole

March 29th, 2010 9 Comments

[The author of this post, an Emerson MFA candidate and guest writer for Vernacular, has requested that I post it under a pseudonym: Wilmur Makepeace O'Toole. - Peter]
The Things They Carried holds a secure place on the reading lists of American classrooms, from high schools to graduate programs. The book’s international prestige (it won the [...]

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In like an Emerson Lion:
Upcoming Literary Happenings in March

February 28th, 2010 No Comments

Unless you’ve been to see any creepy soothsayers recently, you probably don’t need to beware the Ides of March. Nonetheless, these events should inspire you to avoid the idleness of March. So get out there!
Tomorrow night at 6 pm, at Emerson’s own Paramount Theater, Dan Baum–former New Yorker writer (and “frenemy” of said [...]

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Espresso Book Machine Arrives at Harvard Book Store

September 29th, 2009 3 Comments

“We’ve come to the end of the Gutenberg era…we can’t even begin to understand what the technology replacing it is going to do…and that technology is digitalization.” -Jason Epstein

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Howard Dean at Harvard Book Store

September 5th, 2009 No Comments

Above photo courtesy of stevebott from Flickr Creative Commons
I’d like to introduce to you all a Harvard Book Store event. Since they have already written their own introduction, I will let them present themselves:
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome physician, former Vermont
governor, and recent chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Howard Dean, for a discussion [...]

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This Week at the Harvard Book Store…

June 15th, 2009 No Comments

This week, come on out to my favorite indie bookstore in Harvard Square for some great readings with great authors! Here’s the line-up of events:
Tonight- Joseph O’Neill reads from Netherland at 7 pm
Tomorrow, 6/16- Kate Walbert reads from A Short History of Women: A Novel at 7 pm
Wed, 6/17- Adam Reid serves up Thoroughly Modern [...]

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The Harvard Book Store Vs. The Harvard Coop: A Death Match

January 15th, 2009 4 Comments

If I’m going to meet someone at the Harvard Book Store who hasn’t been there before, I usually have to remind them of one crucial tidbit: “It’s NOT the Harvard Coop.” A small, but highly important distinction:
Read the Rest…
The Harvard Coop (short for cooperative, but pronounced “coop”- yes, like chicken coop):… is the Harvard [...]

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My New Year’s Resolution: Buy More New Books

January 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Happy New Year, Vernacular readers! After a holiday-season-slowdown in posting, we are back, refreshed, and full of snark! Despite all of 2008’s rocky adventures, we at Vernacular are very thankful for having had the opportunity to establish this blog as a digital dialogue and resource for anyone interested in writing, literature, and publishing–in [...]

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This Week in Publishing and Writing: Literary Events Extravaganza!!

October 1st, 2008 No Comments

Back from long hiatus, “This Week” we have some announcements of great upcoming literary events in the Boston area! And what a lovely time of year to travel around Boston and meet fellow enthusiasts of the written word. Think of it as your October Calendar of A-list fall excitement*:
Fri, Oct 3:Emerson Graduate Reading [...]

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This Week in Publishing: Where to Go For a Good (Literary) Time

September 1st, 2008 No Comments

Happy Labor Day– a day that has always held deeply ambivalent sentiments for me. On the one hand, summer as we know it is kind of over, and certain unpleasant cold weather-related events lurk just beyond the horizon: school starting, scratchy sweaters, number 2 pencils, midterms. On the other hand, fall is one [...]

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