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SUMMARY:Maria Tatar at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store\, the Harvard University Division of Science\, and the Harvard Library welcome Maria Tatar—John L. Loeb Research Professor of Folklore and Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures\, Emerita\, at Harvard University—for a discussion of her book\, Arachnomania: Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do For Us. She will be joined in conversation by Charlie Tyson—Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and regular contributor to The New Yorker\, The Baffler\, and The Atlantic.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/maria-tatar-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T190000
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SUMMARY:Molly Crabapple at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Molly Crabapple—two-time Emmy Award-winning animator\, author of Drawing Blood and co-author of Brothers of the Gun\, long-listed for a National Book Award—for a discussion of her new book\, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. She will be joined in conversation with Shaul Magid—author of many books and Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence at Harvard University. \nAbout Here Where We Live Is Our Country\nThe dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and their radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. \nWhen artist Sam Rothbort created his “Memory Paintings” in the aftermath of the Holocaust\, he was trying to resurrect the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. When his great-granddaughter\, the award-winning artist and journalist Molly Crabapple\, discovered his archives decades later\, one painting stood out: a girl\, her dress the same color as the sky above\, hurling a rock through a cottage window. Itka the Bundist\, Breaking Windows. \nThat single painting sent Crabapple on a journey into the Jewish Labor Bund. Once the most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe—and a player in some of the most important events of the twentieth century—they were secular\, socialist\, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist. They fought for dignity and equality\, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine\, but “here\, where we live.” \nIn the first popular history of the Bund\, Crabapple recreates their extraordinary world through dramatic portraits of leaders and foot soldiers alike. The characters Crabapple brings to such vivid life—insurgent poets and anti-religious rebels\, clandestine revolutionaries and lovers on the barricades—live deeply through this violent\, volatile\, and somehow hopeful period\, their stories intimately bound up with the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust. Crabapple also grapples with the vital question raised by their rise and fall: What can we learn from a movement that\, for all its toughness\, imagination\, and moral clarity\, was largely destroyed? \nWith intimate portraiture and sweeping history\, Here Where We Live Is Our Country reanimates a band of idealists who broadened our global political imagination. As we once again contend with nationalism\, repression\, and the struggle for belonging\, the Bund’s remarkable story and message—that liberation\, dignity\, and solidarity must begin where we stand—reaches across time as a guide to our own urgent moment.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/molly-crabapple-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund By Molly Crabapple Cover Image Molly Crabapple at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Molly Crabapple—two-time Emmy Award-winning animator\, author of Drawing Blood and co-author of Brothers of the Gun\, long-listed for a National Book Award—for a discussion of her new book\, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. She will be joined in conversation with Shaul Magid—author of many books and Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence at Harvard University.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-the-story-of-the-jewish-bund-by-molly-crabapple-cover-image-molly-crabapple-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T190000
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SUMMARY:Theo Baker at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Theo Baker—undergraduate at Stanford University and the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious George Polk Award—for a discussion of his book\, How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University. He will be joined in conversation by Indira Lakshmanan—co-host of NPR’s Here & Now. \nAbout How to Rule the World\nWinner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford’s president\, Theo Baker offers a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris.  \nSlush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley’s favored teenagers. \nSeventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like paradise. There were Rodin sculptures next to nuclear laboratories and inventors lounging with Olympians. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting\, that vested infinite excess and access in the hands of kids with few safeguards to catch bad behavior. \nStanford\, he realized\, was less a school than a business. Its annual budget was nearly twice that of Harvard or Yale and higher than those of 116 countries. The product? Students. Especially those special few identified as the next trillion-dollar startup founders. For them\, there were secret societies\, “pre-idea” funding offers\, and social calls from billionaires\, all with the expectation that these geniuses would soon join the ruling elite. \nAt the helm of this business was Marc Tessier-Lavigne\, a superstar neuroscientist and wealthy biotech executive. But when Baker joined the student newspaper and started poking around the Stanford president’s record\, he discovered never-reported allegations of research misconduct in studies published across two decades bearing Tessier-Lavigne’s name. \nOnly one month into college and thousands of miles from home\, Baker began receiving anonymous letters\, going on stakeouts\, and tracking down confidential sources. High-powered lawyers and public relations teams were hired to attack his reporting. Stanford opened an investigation into its own leader. And by the end of the year\, Tessier-Lavigne was out as president. \nThis is the incredible journey of a reluctant teenage reporter who uncovered a story that shook the scientific world and became front-page news across the country. It is also an unprecedented inside view of the students learning to rule the world—and what they’re learning from those who already do. \nHow to Rule the World is a shocking\, hilarious\, and moving debut\, showcasing Silicon Valley’s training ground as never before.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/theo-baker-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Theo Baker at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Theo Baker—undergraduate at Stanford University and the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious George Polk Award—for a discussion of his book\, How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University. He will be joined in conversation by Indira Lakshmanan—co-host of WBUR’s Here & Now.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/theo-baker-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T190000
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Vanessa Hua—national bestselling author of the novels A River of Stars and Forbidden City—for a discussion of her new novel\, Coyoteland. She will be joined in conversation by Julie Carrick Dalton—journalist and author of the award-winning novel The Last Beekeeper. \nAbout Coyoteland\nFrom the bestselling author of A River of Stars comes a funny\, heartfelt novel set in an affluent Bay Area suburb where a Chinese American family moves in and sets off a series of scandals\, for fans of Celeste Ng and Emma Straub. \nLiving in El Nido\, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley\, is supposed to mean you’ve made it. So when Jin Chang moves there with his wife and daughters after years of scraping by\, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck. What his family doesn’t know is that he’s bending the rules for one final scheme: to make it big in real estate. Next door\, Blair Belle prides herself on her progressive politics. After all\, she treats their new nanny\, Ana Rodriguez\, and her daughter like family—even if she doesn’t know them all that well. But she can’t help but feel skeptical of the new neighbors\, especially when she begins to suspect that Jin’s plans might interfere with the Belle’s own luxury development. \nJin’s teenage daughter Jane can tell her dad is keeping a secret\, but she’s also struggling to navigate El Nido’s cliques. Tasha Washington has always felt isolated\, too\, as one of the only Black girls at the school. In the wake of a coyote attack\, Jane and Tasha bond. Together\, they hatch a plot to expose the town’s hypocrisies. The shockwaves will rock their own families. As fire season escalates\, and the roaming coyote continues to unleash chaos\, the characters become embroiled in a series of scandals that will change El Nido—and their own fates—forever. \nUrgent\, riveting\, and deeply heartfelt\, full of sharp wit and keen empathy\, Coyoteland is at once a delicious suburban drama and an unflinching exploration of our current moment.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/vanessa-hua-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T190000
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Vanessa Hua—national bestselling author of the novels A River of Stars and Forbidden City—for a discussion of her new novel\, Coyoteland.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/vanessa-hua-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T170000
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SUMMARY:Joseph Osmundson at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Joseph Osmundson—professor of microbiology at New York University\, and the author of the National Book Critics Circle and Lambda Literary Award Finalist Virology—for a discussion of his new book\, Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood. He will be joined in conversation by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein—prize-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos\, and an associate professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/joseph-osmundson-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Liaquat Ahamed at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Liaquat Ahamed—Pulitzer-prize winning author of Lords of Finance—for a discussion of his new book\, 1873: The Rothschilds\, the First Great Depression\, and the Making of the Modern World. He will be joined in conversation by Roger Lowenstein—New York Times bestselling author of Buffett\, When Genius Failed\, and The End of Wall Street.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/liaquat-ahamed-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T190000
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Fairyington at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephanie Fairyington—journalist who writes on gender\, sexuality\, family\, and parenting—for a discussion of her memoir\, Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by Abbie E. Goldberg—Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, where she also serves as the Director of Women’s & Gender Studies and the Director of Clinical Training\, and the author of four books including\, LGBTQ Family Building.  \nAbout Ugly\nA tender\, moving\, and insightful account of queer motherhood and an interrogation of life on the margins of American culture as a self-described “ugly” woman.  \nUgly is a word with fangs that can kill a woman’s self-esteem in one bite. Edicts about how women should look\, behave\, and think are the brutal forge through which they are made — not born. And to defy the pretty imperative is to become invisible. It can be a hard thing to admit to yourself\, let alone to your child— to say the words\, “I am ugly\,” or “I am seen as ugly.” But early on in her motherhood journey\, watching her young daughter begin to wrestle with beauty standards\, Stephanie Fairyington felt compelled to face her own demons\, to unpack her own ugly self-perception\, one that she could trace to her own childhood\, in order to conquer this seemingly immoveable frontier\, far too taboo even among women to broach—the ways in which women’s lives are unfairly contoured by the nature of their looks. \nThe multiple iterations of ugliness that Fairyington saw in her young self—her physical appearance\, her unavoidably obvious queerness\, and her dissonant gender expression—are not present in her beautiful and traditionally feminine daughter. But Fairyington’s old feelings of inadequacy take on new meaning as she confronts fresh insecurities around her role as the non-biological mother in her relationship\, exacerbating wounds from a lifetime of being treated differently: from the poverty of her genetic inheritance to questions about her parentage to doubts about the legitimacy of her family. \nInterlacing cultural history and analysis with memoir\, Ugly is a probing investigation into cultural norms and the formation of our aesthetic sense of self. Fairyington contrasts her so-called ugliness with her daughter’s attraction and adherence to beauty ideals\, a tender and tenuous condition that by age seven she was already walking a tightrope to maintain. By sharing the history of her troubled self-image\, Fairyington invites us to go rogue\, to invent a new language and logic to overthrow all the ways that women have been cultivated to hate themselves.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/stephanie-fairyington-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T190000
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Fairyington at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephanie Fairyington—journalist who writes on gender\, sexuality\, family\, and parenting—for a discussion of her memoir\, Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by Abbie E. Goldberg—Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, where she also serves as the Director of Women’s & Gender Studies and the Director of Clinical Training\, and the author of four books including\, LGBTQ Family Building. 
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/stephanie-fairyington-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T190000
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SUMMARY:MJ Corey at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes MJ Corey—writer and psychotherapist best known as Kardashian Kolloquium on TikTok and Instagram—for a discussion of her new book\, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto. She will be joined in conversation by Tameka Vasquez—Guyanese-American futurist\, strategist\, trainer\, and speaker. \nAbout Dekonstructing the Kardashians\nFrom the creator of the highly popular Kardashian Kolloquium comes a new media manifesto for the TikTok age\, blending theory and cultural analysis to explain the meteoric rise of the Kardashians and explore what their fame can teach us about the way media functions today.  \nSince 2007\, Kim Kardashian and the extended Kardashian family have been mesmerizing—and scandalizing—America. Whether we’ve liked it or not\, we’ve been inundated with stories of their social lives\, scandals\, and reality show shenanigans and have witnessed the subsequent ascent of their multibillion-dollar fashion\, beauty\, and media empire. But the question remains: Why are the Kardashians so famous in the first place? And what does this tell us about the new media that have delivered them to us? \nIn Dekonstructing the Kardashians\, MJ Corey\, creator of the viral social media presence Kardashian Kolloquium\, brings us not only the definitive chronicle of the family that’s captivated a nation\, but\, perhaps more important\, the story of how media has transformed in the internet age and how it continues to transform us as individuals and as a culture at large. Part media theory\, part cultural analysis\, Dekonstructing the Kardashians interweaves history from the past fifty years of Western media—from the Old Hollywood studio system\, to the advent of the twenty-four-hour news cycle\, to tabloid culture and beyond—with analysis of the cultural influence Kim Kardashian wields over us all and the influences that have shaped her in kind. In so doing\, Corey offers proof that the Kardashians are\, in fact\, the First Family of our image-saturated and deeply divided nation\, while also demonstrating how they hold the keys to understanding the disjointed\, self-referential reality of our current era.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/mj-corey-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T190000
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SUMMARY:MJ Corey at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes MJ Corey—writer and psychotherapist best known as Kardashian Kolloquium on TikTok and Instagram—for a discussion of her new book\, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/mj-corey-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T190000
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SUMMARY:Jimin Han at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Jimin Han—acclaimed author of The Apology and A Small Revolution—for a discussion of her new novel\, Dreamt I Found You. She will be joined in conversation by Jean Stehle—literary influencer. librarian\, and  co-founding organizer of the Newton Children’s Book Festival. \nAbout Dreamt I Found You\nFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Apology comes a contemporary retelling of Korea’s Romeo & Juliet\, as the cousin of the star-crossed lovers helps them avoid a tragic fate.  \nWhen Dahee Shin was nine years old\, she made a promise to protect her favorite cousin\, Channing\, who has always been like a sister to her. Now\, at thirty\, Dahee has found herself in a Korean American community in a New England beach town\, once more running to the rescue of her debt-ridden relative. Ever the idealist\, Channing—who has spent her life haunted by the tragic story of Chunhyang and Mongryong\, Korea’s parallel Romeo & Juliet—has fallen in love with Minjae Oh\, all the while fending off the advances of powerful\, manipulative Kent Cho\, a local politician. As Channing and Minjae’s romance blossoms\, and as Kent’s suspicion and obsession grow\, Dahee begins to realize that it may be up to her to make sure her cousin and beloved escape Chunhyang and Mongryong’s doomed end. \nFor fans of Hello Beautiful\, Dreamt I Found You is a wondrous\, tender retelling of Korea’s most classic love story\, steeped in the travails of a rigid class system\, the power of premonition\, and shot through with Korean folklore and magic.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/jimin-han-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T190000
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SUMMARY:Dylan Gottlieb at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Dylan Gottlieb—Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University and cohost of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast—for a discussion of his new book\, Yuppies: The Bankers\, Lawyers\, Joggers\, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. He will be joined in conversation by Quinn Slobodian—Professor of International History at Boston University and author of Globalists\, Crack-Up Capitalism\, and Hayek’s Bastards.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/dylan-gottlieb-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T190000
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SUMMARY:Liv Mae Morris at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Liv Mae Morris—2022 Lambda Literary Fellow\, 2024 recipient of the Binc Foundation’s Susan Kamil Prize for Emerging Writers\, and bookseller at Harvard Book Store—for a discussion of her debut middle-grade novel\, The Last Dragon House. She will be joined in conversation by Elaine Dimopoulos—critically acclaimed author of The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow and other middle-grade and young adult novels. \nAbout The Last Dragon House\nA spellbinding middle-grade debut about a magical boarding house for dragons and the unlikely siblings destined to save it. \nSiblings Olly and Jenny Atwood have never met a dragon—Olly doesn’t even think they’re real. But when the strange and brilliant Dr. Lady Abernathy offers Olly a job at her mysterious house\, the Atwoods learn that these incredible beasts are very much alive—and they need help. \nDragons have been forced into hiding\, and as caretakers of the Dragon House\, Dr. Lady and Olly are the only protectors these magnificent creatures have left. But when evil forces conspire to poison Dr. Lady\, Olly and his dragon friends find themselves locked in a race against time\, political conspiracies…and one very large corgi. Can Olly recover the antidote before it’s too late? And can Jenny harness her stirring powers to keep Dr. Lady alive until then? Or could this be the end of the Dragon House—and dragons—as they know it? \nThe Last Dragon House is a showstopping novel full of fast-paced\, laugh-out-loud adventure and endearingly flawed characters. It’s also about how our seemingly impossible problems will ultimately be solved: Not by waiting for a Chosen One\, but by banding together and sharing our unique strengths. Another word for those strengths? Magic.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/liv-mae-morris-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T190000
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SUMMARY:Liv Mae Morris at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Liv Mae Morris—2022 Lambda Literary Fellow\, 2024 recipient of the Binc Foundation’s Susan Kamil Prize for Emerging Writers\, and bookseller at Harvard Book Store—for a discussion of her debut middle-grade novel\, The Last Dragon House. She will be joined in conversation by Elaine Dimopoulos—critically acclaimed author of The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow and other middle-grade and young adult novels.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/liv-mae-morris-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T173922
CREATED:20260505T165636Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Preston at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Elizabeth Preston—award-winning science journalist\, who contributes regularly to The New York Times and The Boston Globe\, and has written for publications including Science and National Geographic—for a discussion of her new book\, The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care. She will be joined in conversation by Cynthia Graber—co-host/co-founder of the internationally popular and acclaimed podcast Gastropod and instructor in the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing. \nAbout The Creatures’ Guide to Caring\nA lively and revelatory journey through the evolution of caretaking on Earth\, from animal parents to modern-day humans\, making the case that caring for children and each other made us who we are. \nPoison frog fathers carry tadpoles on their backs. Killer whale grandmothers hunt to feed their adult sons. Tropical birds incubate their friends’ eggs. Spider moms let their hatchlings eat them alive. Around the world\, animals from the exotic to the familiar go to astonishing lengths to keep their young alive. Their biology\, brains and behaviors show us what we have in common with other creatures\, as well as what’s unique about Homo sapiens. \nWith warmth\, humor\, and occasional run-ins with bodily fluids\, science journalist Elizabeth Preston leads a highly accessible tour of cutting-edge research into how and why we and other animals care for young. She discovers that humans evolved to raise our kids in cooperative groups\, and that the tools we’ve inherited for caretaking aren’t only for moms or dads—they’re the basis for our human society. \nPraise for The Creatures’ Guide to Caring\n“Reading this book is like sitting at a dinner table with your smartest\, funniest friend. Elizabeth Preston’s writing shimmers with wit\, charisma\, and infectious delight\, as she shows how the act of caretaking connects us to the rest of the animal kingdom.” —Ed Yong\, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World \n“This fascinating\, compelling\, and comforting book convincingly argues that whether we choose to become parents or not\, we—as well as many other animals—were born pre-programmed to care for others. At a time when human overpopulation threatens all the earth’s species\, it’s great to know we can harness our inborn genius for love to do more than just churn out more and more baby humans—we can extend that love to care for life in all its glorious forms.” —Sy Montgomery\, bestselling author of What the Chicken Knows \n“Elizabeth Preston is an engaging\, brilliant\, often hilarious guide to the WTF world of non-human parenting. This book is astonishing—for the breadth of Preston’s research and the eye-opening\, jaw-dropping things it uncovers: dads who incubate their young in their throats and burp them out. Babies that survive by peeling and eating their mother’s skin. Gender-changing fish! Lactating male bats! The message is clear: there is no one way to be a parent. A must read for mothers (and fathers) and everyone who has one.” —Mary Roach\, New York Times bestselling author of Replaceable You
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/elizabeth-preston-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Preston at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Elizabeth Preston—award-winning science journalist\, who contributes regularly to The New York Times and The Boston Globe\, and has written for publications including Science and National Geographic—for a discussion of her new book\, The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care. She will be joined in conversation by Cynthia Graber—co-host/co-founder of the internationally popular and acclaimed podcast Gastropod and instructor in the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/elizabeth-preston-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T190000
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SUMMARY:David Epstein at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes David Epstein—author of the New York Times bestsellers Range and The Sports Gene—for a discussion of his new book\, Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better. He will be joined in conversation with Robert Waldinger—Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development\, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever done. \nAbout Inside the Box\nHow do we do more with less?\nLimits are the key to stimulating creativity\, innovation\, and collaboration. \nWe live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and prizes freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding what to do\, who to be\, and how to spend our time. All that choice is wonderful; it is also overwhelming. The irony is that total freedom can be paralyzing\, and unlimited resources don’t necessarily lead to the biggest breakthroughs. In fact\, overvaluing complete freedom can be disastrous for everything from starting a company to harnessing creativity to finding personal satisfaction. \nDavid Epstein argues that all of us—individuals\, businesses\, institutions\, even societies—can benefit from narrowing our options. He dives into the science and practice of constraints\, exploring exactly when and how guardrails can be beneficial\, whether we’re working with limited resources or using self-imposed boundaries to tap unexpected wells of focus and innovation. \nOriginal\, galvanizing\, and deeply researched\, Inside the Box tells absorbing stories of people and organizations that embraced constraints to transform themselves\, and the world—as well as a few that struggled from a lack of limits. Epstein reveals how boundaries create breakthroughs\, and how setting the right constraints can help you become the most creative\, productive\, and satisfied version of yourself.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/david-epstein-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Radford at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Morgan Radford—co-anchor for NBC News Daily and Harvard University alumna—for a discussion of her debut novel\, Now Then. She will be joined in conversation by Andrew Manuel Crespo—Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he teaches criminal law and procedure and serves as the Executive Faculty Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration. \nAbout Now Then\nIn this sweeping debut novel by NBC News Anchor Morgan Radford\, Now Then follows a Harvard student navigating her own path to self-discovery while uncovering her mother’s secret past fleeing the Cuban Revolution.  \nNow — 1991 Cambridge\, MA. Liliana Soto Walker is an 18-year-old freshman who arrives at Harvard from the humble Appalachian home of her Cuban immigrant mother and Black American father. Lily feels out of place in this new world of privilege\, but her roommate Hana and a budding romance with Vikram – a charming Indian-British postdoctoral student – stirs a new sense of belonging. As Lily navigates the complexities of college life\, her mother\, Marisol\, finally begins to reveal her past through heartfelt letters\, sparking Lily’s journey to uncover hidden histories and discover what it means to endure – and find happiness again. Meanwhile\, Lily and Vikram form a deep bond that sweeps across decades and continents\, one marked by amazing-turned-devastating missed connections. \nThen — 1957 Havana\, Cuba. Marisol\, Lily’s mother\, is a bright young woman with dreams of becoming a journalist. But as the calls for a government coup reach a deadly crescendo\, one deadly night ahead of the Cuban Revolution forces Marisol to flee her homeland\, leaving her scarred in ways she has never revealed. Until now. Through their letters\, the secrets Marisol has kept hidden for years finally begin to surface\, challenging Lily’s understanding of who her mother really is — and by extension\, herself. \nHeartfelt and romantic\, suspenseful and surprising\, Now Then is a powerful tale that explores the weight of secrets\, the hope that comes with second chances\, and the choices we live with – and love through – forever.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/morgan-radford-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Radford at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Morgan Radford—co-anchor for NBC News Daily and Harvard University alumna—for a discussion of her debut novel\, Now Then. She will be joined in conversation by Andrew Manuel Crespo—Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he teaches criminal law and procedure and serves as the Executive Faculty Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/morgan-radford-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T173922
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SUMMARY:Laura Zigman at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Note: This event starts at 6pm.\n\n\n\n\n\nHarvard Book Store welcomes Laura Zigman—acclaimed author of Small World\, Separation Anxiety\, and Animal Husbandry—for a discussion of her highly anticipated new novel\, The Author Weekend. She will be joined in conversation by Alice Hoffman—bestselling author of thirty works of fiction\, including Practical Magic.  \nAbout The Author Weekend\nThe Devil Wears Prada meets White Lotus in a story of colliding egos and shocking betrayal\, as intoxicatingly ice-cold as the pink Prosecco that flows all weekend. \nEverything needs to be just right for bestselling mystery writer Faye Wader’s first ever fan weekend. Her sales might be slipping—only a little!—but her readers still love her enough to pony up for three days and two nights on Great Misery Island. The retreat is precisely planned\, from the small batch artisanal donuts to the perimenopausal Mermaid Meditation\, by Faye and her beleaguered assistant Jade—an aspiring author who can’t seem to finish her own novel. \nFaye’s long-time agent and editor will be there\, as well as Faye’s number one fan\, Peggy Mercer\, who has been first in line at every one of Faye’s events. When news comes that the weekend will be crashed by glamorous\, charismatic\, rival novelist Abby Schuss\, Faye thinks things can’t get worse … until one of the attendees is found dead in her room\, setting off an unexpectedly murderous chain of events that make pre-pub anxiety seem like a day at the beach. How far is Faye willing to go to get exactly what she wants from her author weekend? \nThe Author Weekend is a thrilling and hilarious dive into the dark heart of envy\, and a glorious exploration of a woman of a certain age desperate to survive the dog-eat-dog world of publishing and control her own narrative. \nPraise for The Author Weekend\n“Writers and readers alike will love this dark and hilarious novel about the mysteries of publishing. It’s the perfect book club book that is as funny as it is thought-provoking. Laura Zigman fans rejoice! She’s back with a vengeance.” —Alice Hoffman\, New York Times bestselling author \n“What wicked\, brilliant fun! A blistering and sharply observed satire about the monstrous world of publishing\, celebrity\, and being a woman of a certain age. This is a novel that holds nothing back and its bold\, dark delights are utterly gripping and infectious: I couldn’t put it down.” —Mona Awad\, bestselling author of Bunny and Rouge \n“The Author Weekend is everything I love in a novel. Brilliant\, laugh-out-loud dialogue\, unforgettable characters\, and a rollicking\, fabulously twisted plot. I thought it would be a perfect weekend read\, but I greedily inhaled it in one sitting. What a gem!” —Ann Leary\, New York Times bestselling author of The Good House and The Foundling \n“Dark\, hilarious\, gripping and insightful\, The Author Weekend is a send-up of the publishing business written by someone who has seen it all – the good\, the bad\, and the very ugly. Zigman is a master of suspense. I couldn’t stop turning pages to see what would happen next\, until I reached the story’s perfect conclusion.” —J. Courtney Sullivan\, New York Times bestselling author of Friends and Strangers
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/laura-zigman-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T180000
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SUMMARY:Laura Zigman at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Laura Zigman—acclaimed author of Small World\, Separation Anxiety\, and Animal Husbandry—for a discussion of her highly anticipated new novel\, The Author Weekend. She will be joined in conversation by Alice Hoffman—bestselling author of thirty works of fiction\, including Practical Magic. 
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/laura-zigman-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T190000
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CREATED:20260414T174125Z
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SUMMARY:Juliet Faithfull at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Juliet Faithfull—Spanish-British-American writer and trilingual psychotherapist\, whose short stories have been published in the Bellevue Literary Review and Urbanus Magazine—for a discussion of her acclaimed debut novel\, Liar’s Dice. She will be joined in conversation by Michelle Hoover—co-founder of the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program and author of the acclaimed novels The Quickening and Bottomland.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/juliet-faithfull-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T190000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Acker at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Jennifer Acker—acclaimed author of The Limits of the World\, and founder and editor in chief of The Common—for a discussion of her new novel\, Surrender. She will be joined in conversation by Teju Cole—the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard and award-winning author of Open City.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/jennifer-acker-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T190000
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SUMMARY:Mark Oppenheimer at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Mark Oppenheimer—journalist\, historian\, and acclaimed author of five books\, including Squirrel Hill and The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia—for a discussion of his new biography\, Judy Blume: A Life. He will be joined in conversation by Callie Crossley—host of GBH’s Under the Radar with Callie Crossley. \nMark Oppenheimer has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale\, and has taught at Stanford\, Wesleyan\, Wellesley\, NYU\, Boston College\, and Yale\, where he was the founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative. From 2010 to 2016\, he wrote the “Beliefs” column for The New York Times\, and he has also written for publications including The New Yorker\, The Nation\, GQ\, Slate\, and many more. He created Unorthodox\, the world’s most popular podcast about Jewish life and culture\, with over 7 million downloads. More recently\, he hosted an eight-part podcast called Gatecrashers\, about the history of Jews and antisemitism at Ivy League schools. He is the author of five books\, including The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia and\, most recently\, Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. He edits Arc magazine and lives in Connecticut with his wife\, four daughters\, one son\, and one dog. \nCallie Crossley hosts Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and shares radio essays each Monday on GBH’s Morning Edition. She also formerly hosted Basic Black\, which focused on current events impacting communities of color. Crossley has won numerous awards\, including the prestigious Gold Baton DuPont Columbia award\, a national Edward R. Murrow Award\, a national Emmy and an Oscar nomination for her producer work on “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years.” She was awarded two Harvard Fellowships and serves as on the Board of Trustees of her alma mater\, Wellesley College.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/mark-oppenheimer-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T190000
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SUMMARY:Evan Wang at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Evan Wang—9th National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and the first male and Chinese individual to hold this title—for a discussion of his poetry collection\, Slow Burn. He will be joined in conversation by Cindion Huang—first-year student studying English and Economics at Harvard College and prize-winning poet. \nEvan Wang (王潇) is the 9th National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States\, the first male and Chinese individual to hold this title\, and author of Slow Burn (Northwestern University Press\, 2026)\, the youngest winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. His work appears in POETRY Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, Waxwing\, The Harvard Advocate\, and elsewhere. Deemed a “prodigy” by Teen Vogue\, Evan has been featured at and recognized by the Biden White House\, the United Nations\, the Smithsonian Institution\, and Google DeepMind. Evan is a first-year student at Harvard College. \nCindion Huang is a first-year student studying English and Economics at Harvard College. Her poems appear in the Harvard Independent\, Harvard Undergraduate Tuesday Magazine\, The Incandescent Review\, and TeenWritersProject Quarterly. Raised in Shanghai\, she first encountered poetry through classical Chinese verse and later became enraptured by the traditions of English literature. Her work has received several Scholastic Gold Keys\, the Brian Ford Writing Prize\, and finalist recognition at the Hill-Stead Museum Poetry Competition. Cindion is currently taking a poetry workshop with Tina Chang\, Brooklyn Poet Laureate\, and teaching creative writing to international Chinese high school students passionate about the craft of writing.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/evan-wang-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T173922
CREATED:20260325T165344Z
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SUMMARY:Omer Bartov at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Omer Bartov—Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University and award-winning author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz—for a discussion of his new book\, Israel: What Went Wrong?. He will be joined in conversation by Shaul Magid—Professor of Modern Judaism in Residence at Harvard Divinity School\, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard\, co-editor of Harvard Theological Review\, contributing editor to ARC Journal\, and rabbi emeritus of the Fire Island Synagogue in New York.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/omer-bartov-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T193000
DTSTAMP:20260614T173922
CREATED:20260325T164957Z
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SUMMARY:April's Harvard Square Book Circle
DESCRIPTION:This month we’re discussing Blackouts: A Novel by Justin Torres. \nDon’t forget each book we discuss is part of our featured Select 70 for frequent buyer members. \nThe Book Circle is Harvard Book Store’s monthly book club open for members of the community to meet and discuss a thoughtfully selected book. We’ll meet in the third room of the store from 6–7:30 PM. Registration is not required and no commitment is necessary.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/aprils-harvard-square-book-circle/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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