Harvard Book Store

RSVP is required for this event. Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Ben Wikler—political organizer and strategist who served as the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin from July 2019 to July 2025—for a discussion of his new book, This Is The Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy. He will […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Yotam Marom—leading activist, organizer, and co-founder of IfNotNow and the Wildfire Project—for a discussion of his debut book, For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness. He will be joined in conversation by Marshall Ganz—Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing and Civil Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Meg Richardson—writer, translator, and cartoonist from Iowa—for a discussion of her debut novel, Paradise Pawn, based on her experiences working behind the counter of a pawn shop. She will be joined in conversation by Hannah Kauders—local writer and translator who teaches in the Harvard College Writing Program. About Paradise Pawn A dazzling debut novel about best friends, […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor—professor of history at Smith College where she teaches courses on race, slavery, and one on her father, comedic legend Richard Pryor—for a discussion of her new memoir, Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me. She will be joined in conversation by Kellie Carter Jackson—Michael and Denise Kellen ‘68 Associate […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Lizzie Buehler—award-winning translator of The Disaster Tourist—for a discussion of her debut novel, The Obsessed, one of Best Life's "Best New Beach Reads Everyone Will Be Talking About This Summer". She will be joined in conversation by Joanna Rakoff—author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the award-winning novel A Fortunate Age. 

Harvard Book Store welcomes Peter Santenello—independent journalist and filmmaker with over four million subscribers on YouTube—for a signing of his new book, Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home, a heartening journey through the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons we've got to love this place--and one another. The signing will […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Sarah J. Jackson—Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania—for a discussion of her new book, A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom. She will be joined in conversation by Caleb Gayle—award-winning […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Rhonda M. Roorda—acclaimed speaker, author, and consultant on transracial adoption—for a discussion of her new memoir, Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee. She will be joined in conversation by Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao—Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. About Torn from the Root A powerful journey of identity and belonging. […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Chang-rae Lee—award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered—for a discussion of his new novel, A Tender Age. He will be joined in conversation by Claire Messud—author of six works of fiction and the Joseph Y. Bae and Janice Lee Senior Lecturer on Fiction at Harvard University.  About A Tender Age Guilt, innocence, and a boy on […]