Harvard Book Store welcomes Jasper Fforde—author of fifteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Eyre Affair, the first book in his Thursday Next series—for a discussion of the eighth and final installment in the Thursday Next series, Dark Reading Matter: The Last Thursday Next Novel. About Dark Reading Matter Will literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next find her happy ending? The outrageous, heartfelt conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series, which began with The Eyre Affair, will have you, Dear Reader, laughing out loud. Ex-Literary Special…

Presenting Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists RSVP is required for this event. Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Theaster Gates—award-winning artist, professor at the University of Chicago, and Director of Artists Initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College Museum of Art—and Henry Louis Gates Jr.—Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and an Emmy, Du Pont, and Peabody Award-winning…

Harvard Book Store welcomes Nghi Vo—USA Today bestselling author of Siren Queen, The Chosen and the Beautiful, Don't Sleep with the Dead, and The City in Glass—for a discussion of her new novel, The Scarlet Ball. She will be joined in conversation by Cassandra Khaw—bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Library at Hellebore, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, The Salt Grows Heavy, and Breakable Things. About The Scarlet Ball From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo, this all-consuming tale…

What happens when your taste is real but your world is fake? When your longing is legit but channels for expression have been defanged and sanitized? RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE is a novel built from the recorded cassette tape monologues of Anderson Humphrey, a music obsessive and aspiring snob known curiously as The Christian Humper in a vast but isolated underground scene in the 1990s. The stories are oral but recall zine culture at its photocopied peak, when music was…