Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store welcomes Isaac Butler—author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner The Method and the coauthor of The World Only Spins Forward—for a discussion of his new book, The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Loubna Mrie—Syrian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic—for a discussion of her new book, Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria. She will be joined in conversation by Ambassador Samantha Power—Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Elizabeth Margulis—Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Music at Princeton University, where she directs the Music Cognition Lab—for a discussion of her new book, Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams. She will be joined in conversation by Psyche Loui—Associate Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice in the Department of Music at Northeastern […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Mark Peterson—Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University and the Faculty Director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library—for a discussion of his book, The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History. He will be joined in conversation by Emilie Connolly—Assistant Professor of History at Yale University and the award-winning author of Vested Interests.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Roshan Sethi—award-winning writer, director, and practicing oncologist—for a discussion of his debut book The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero, about the rise and fall of an unemployed actor who lands the greatest role of his life when he's hired as a personal assistant to a demanding, highly absurd Hollywood family.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Chloe Chapin—American historian, costume designer, and fashion scholar—for a discussion of her new book, Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men. She will be joined in conversation by Michelle Finamore—fashion & design Curator, author, and historian who was previously Curator of Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome Rowan Jacobsen—acclaimed author of nine books, including A Geography of Oysters, Fruitless Fall, and Truffle Hound—for a discussion of his latest book In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure. 

Harvard Book Store welcomes Howard A. Rodman—a vice president of the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and one of seventeen members of the Screenwriters Hall of Fame—for a discussion of his novels Destiny Express and The Great Eastern. He will be joined in conversation by Sam Marks—award-winning playwright, television writer, and Senior Lecturer on Playwriting at Harvard University.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Carson Markland—acclaimed writer and filmmaker from South Carolina featured in the Best Microfiction Anthology—for a discussion of her debut novel, Men Like Us. She will be joined in conversation by Brian Castleberry—acclaimed author of Nine Shiny Objects and The Californians.

Harvard Book Store welcomes P.C. Verrone—award-winning writer whose work has appeared in FIYAH and PodCastle—for a discussion of his debut novel, Rabbit, Fox, Tar, a Debutiful "Most Anticipated Book of the Year". He will be joined in conversation by Linda Schlossberg—Associate Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Harvard University and author of the novel Life in Miniature.