Wednesday, February 11th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store
T.C. BOYLE
reads from his newest novel The Women
Thursday, February 12th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store
MARIO LIVIO
Is God a Mathematician?
Wednesday, February 18th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store
AZADEH MOAVENI
Honeymoon in Tehran:
Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Tuesday, February 24th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store
JONAH LEHRER
How We Decide
Wednesday, March 4th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store
MARLON JAMES
The Book of Night Women
Brookline Booksmith
Tuesday February 24 7PM
Ulrich Boser - The Gardner Heist
A book about the biggest art heist in history was long overdue. Now, reporter Ulrich Boser investigates the unsolved break-in at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, picking up where the crime’s top investigator left off. Join him as he uncovers a world as colorful as the stolen work.
Thursday, March 5 7PMJedediah Berry - Manual of Detection
Northampton-based author Jedediah Berry, an editor at the beloved independent publisher Small Beer Press, has had stories featured in Best New American Voices and Best American Fantasy. His debut novel, The Manual of Detection, follows a clerk thrust into the role of master sleuth. A cross between Borges and Chabon, this novel will thrill fans of imaginative fiction.
Boston Public Library (Copley)
Jeff Gordinier -- Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. in the Orientation Room. Jeff Gordinier is Editor-at-Large at Details magazine. Flipping conventional wisdom on its head, Gordinier’s recent book, X Saves the World revisits the glory years of the “slackers” who were born between 1960 and 1977—and takes a sharp look at the culture they’ve created in spite of (or maybe because of) their ongoing marginalization. If you’re interested in the humorous analysis of major trends in American culture, you will devour this volume.
Innovation in Hollywood -- Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. in the Orientation Room. In an illustrated spin through Hollywood history, Boston Globe columnist and author Scott Kirsner will discuss how innovators like Edison, the Warner Brothers, Pixar, George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bing Crosby have changed the movie industry. Scott's talk is based on his new book, Inventing the Movies: Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo. Books will be available for sale.
Thomas Barnett -- Thursday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall. In Great Powers: America and the World After Bush, Thomas Barnett delivers a tour de force analysis of the grand realignments that are both already here and coming up fast in the spheres of economics, diplomacy, defense, technology, security, the environment, and much more. The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map brings a remarkable analysis of the post-Bush world, and America ’s leadership role in it .Thomas P.M. Barnett regularly advises the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Special Operations Command, and Central Command, and routinely offers briefings to senior members of the four military services, the intelligence community, and Congress. For more information, click here.
Mary Pat Kelly -- Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m.in the Orientation Room. Author and filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly discusses Galway Bay, her newest work of fiction with its roots based in the story of her own great-great-grandmother who escaped with her family from the Great Starvation of 1840s Ireland. This event is co-hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland, Boston and The Eire Society of Boston. For more information, click here.
Pamela Newkirk -- Thursday, Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Abbey Room. Letters from Black America is a collection of extraordinary letters and a milestone in American history. It presents the pantheon of African American experience in the most intimate way possible – through the heartfelt correspondence of the men and women who lived through monumental changes and political events. For more information, click here.
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman -- Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. in the Abbey Room.Bones of the Dragon is the first book in the Dragonships of Vindras series—and an introduction to a new world, a new cast of heroes and heroines, and a new adventure by the creators of no less than five New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series. With Bones of the Dragon, these two storytelling masters have conjured a rich new world of Viking-like warriors who sail the seas in ships powered by dragons in search of untold treasure. When strife and chaos threatens their world, however, they are duty-bound to follow their gods on a fantastic quest that will not only determine the fate of mortals—but the fate of the gods as well. For more information, click here.
Mysterious Massachusetts -- Thursday, Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Orientation Room. Local authors Jedediah Berry and Hallie Ephron will discuss their debut novels and what it’s like to write a mystery. Jedediah Berry has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has been published in The Best New American Voices 2008, as well as in literary magazines and online fiction sites. In The Manual of Detection, his tightly plotted debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people’s dreams. Hallie Ephron is an award-winning book reviewer for the Boston Globe where her On Crime column of crime fiction book reviews appears the last Sunday of each month in the Ideas section. Hallie combined writing talent with a love of teaching in Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'Em Dead with Style. Her debut novel is a gripping psychological suspense novel, Never Tell a Lie. For more information, click here.
Michael Palmer -- Tuesday, March 3 at 6 p.m. in the Abbey Room. Michael Palmer is the author of twelve novels of medical suspense, all international bestsellers. In addition to writing, Palmer is an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society Physician Health Services, devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental illness, physical illness, behavioral issues, and chemical dependency. In The Second Opinion, Michael Palmer has created a cat-and-mouse game where one woman must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test
Murder in New England – Thursday, March 5 at 6 p.m. in the Orientation Room. Murder comes in all tones and styles as this pair of mystery writers from New England will show. Rosemary Harris is a certified Master Gardener and docent at her local arboretum. In her latest mystery, Big Dirt Nap, readers will find that something stinks to gardener Paula Holliday, and it isn’t just the corpse flower, named for its off-putting fragrance. Paul Tremblay has won acclaim for his short fiction, and received two nominations for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award. Wildly imaginative and with a pitch-perfect voice, The Little Sleep is the first in a new series that casts a fresh eye on the rigors of detective work, and introduces a character who has a lot to prove—if only he can stay awake long enough to do it.
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