Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store welcomes Jim Shepard—award-winning author of eight novels and six story collections, including The Book of Aron and Like You’d Understand, Anyway—for a discussion of his new story collection, The Queen of Bad Influences. He will be joined in conversation by Margot Livesey—author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Flight of Gemma Hardy and her most recent novel The Road from […]

Harvard Book Store and The French Library welcome Leila Slimani—bestselling and Prix Goncourt-winning author of The Perfect Nanny—for a discussion of her new novel, I'll Take the Fire. She will be joined in conversation by Mylène Priam—scholar and writer who taught French and Francophone literature at Harvard University for more than a decade. About I'll Take the Fire One of The […]

Harvard Book Store invites you to a special midnight release party event for Threshing Day, the next book in Rebecca Yarros' blockbuster Empyrean series, containing thirteen stories starring your favorite characters and their dragons. Ticket holders will have access into the bookstore beginning at 10:30pm for 90 minutes of Empyrean-themed activities, including photo opportunities, a costume contest, […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Jorie Graham—Boylston Chair Emerita at Harvard University and the Pulitzer-prize winning poet—for a discussion of her new poetry collection, Killing Spree. She will be joined in conversation by Stephanie Burt—Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism, including Super Gay Poems and Don’t […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Gillian Daniels—poet and short fiction author whose works have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and other publications—for a discussion of her debut novel, Jenny Will Eat You Now: A Meat Cute. She will be joined in conversation by Bracken MacLeod—acclaimed horror writer and the author of Closing Costs and Let Not Your Sorrow Die. About Jenny Will Eat You Now Sometimes […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes danah boyd—Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University and founder of the research institute Data & Society—for a discussion of her new book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census. About Data Are Made, Not Found An eye-opening story of the people […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Emily Ogden—professor of English at the University of Virginia and acclaimed author of On Not Knowing and Credulity—for a discussion of her new book, Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe. About Darkness Becomes Bright A fascinating and intimate inquiry into Edgar Allan Poe’s shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work—and why […]

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 […]

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, […]