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SUMMARY:Danah Boyd at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout Data Are Made\, Not Found\nAn eye-opening story of the people who make the census\, the United States’ largest and most consequential dataset\, and the growing threats to their crucial work.  \nBy many measures\, the US census is the government’s largest non-wartime operation\, and one of the world’s oldest and biggest data-making endeavors. The 2020 census required more than a decade of planning and technical work—not to mention managing nearly a quarter of a million temporary workers simultaneously—to collect data about the American public. That data was then processed to count each of 331\,449\,281 residents once—and only once—and in the right place. The operation is also one of the country’s most consequential. Census data determine how political power and federal funding are allocated. Census data make politics\, and consequently\, politics make census data. In this urgent book\, danah boyd explores what it took for the Census Bureau to make the 2020 census\, amidst a global pandemic and natural disasters\, and while navigating political forces that constrained the budget\, micro-managed the schedule\, and attacked statisticians’ methods.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/danah-boyd-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Emily Ogden at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout Darkness Becomes Bright\nA fascinating and intimate inquiry into Edgar Allan Poe’s shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work—and why we are drawn to darkness in art.  \nSince Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 1849\, his stories and poems have captivated millions of readers around the world. Two centuries later\, why do we continue to descend into the darkness of his imagination—and of the genres\, from horror to crime\, that he pioneered? \nIn this spellbinding and singular book\, Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting grant recipient Emily Ogden plumbs the darkness within Poe and enters it alongside him. She interweaves stories from his mysterious and tragic life—from his strange disappearances and tortured romances to his nearly fatal use of opium—with those of his most famous readers and translators\, including poet Charles Baudelaire\, writer Julio Cortázar\, and psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte\, a descendant of Napoleon and a patient of Sigmund Freud. \nTracing their passionate attachments to Poe—and Ogden’s own\, unexpectedly sparked when she taught an introductory Poe course at the University of Virginia\, where Poe himself was once a student—Darkness Becomes Bright makes a different case for literature from the one we most often hear. This exquisite volume shows how Poe’s vision and its echoes across the generations allow us to make peace with our own flawed humanity.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/emily-ogden-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Jasper Fforde at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout Dark Reading Matter\nWill 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. \nEx-Literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final fictional adventure\, and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is\, others are aware of it\, too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and make the last Thursday Next novel\, Dark Reading Matter\, not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can’t let that happen\, and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists. \nIt won’t be easy. The Martians have broken out of their H. G. Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the BookWorld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter\, the realm where deleted books and unrealized literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage’s Shakesmania\, the nation’s second-worst Shakespeare theme park\, and the cozy world of Enid Blyton has been hijacked by ultra-right-wing nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire\, a partially redacted donkey\, a BookWorld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp collector with Philaticide on their mind\, Thursday has to navigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a satisfying conclusion. \nIt’s a tall order\, but thursday has several secret weapons: her own adaptability; her husband\, Landen; a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call upon—her readers.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/jasper-fforde-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Nghi Vo at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout The Scarlet Ball\nFrom USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo\, this all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Toro. \nPick a face\, pick a fate. \nJudith Ban\, former convent girl\, courtesan\, and failed thief\, is on the lookout for her next identity. The daughter of a Vietnamese adventuress and a French naval officer\, she’s no stranger to risk\, but she’s unprepared for the secrets of New York’s legendary Four Hundred\, or for the women who build their power at the city’s heart through blood-soaked\, gold-etched rituals of demonic marriage. \nIn exchange for enough wealth to outrun her past\, Judith strikes a deal with the matriarch of the powerful Howard family: she will stand in for the missing Howard granddaughter\, who was poised to make her debut when she disappeared. With Miss Iphigenia Marshall’s face stitched over her own\, Judith is white\, rich\, and about to risk body and soul in the deadly games that determine which girls will find a match—and which will be devoured. If she can keep her wits and her life\, her reward will be a husband with undreamt-of power who will be hers to command… so long as she can keep his infinite hungers fed. But to survive the season\, Judith will have to seduce a storm in the shape of a man\, before the night to which everything has been leading—the Scarlet Ball where the demons choose their brides. \nA razor-sharp subversion of romance tropes and nightmare of manners\, Vo’s fusion of history and fantasy does for Edith Wharton what her acclaimed debut The Chosen and the Beautiful did for F. Scott Fitzgerald.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/nghi-vo-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Kevin Galvin at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Kevin Galvin—former deputy national editor of The Boston Globe and correspondent for the Associated Press and The Seattle Times—for a discussion of his new book\, Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing of 1976. He will be joined in conversation by Mitchell Zuckoff—Sumner M. Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies at Boston University and author of nine books\, including the #1 New York Times bestseller 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi\, which was adapted into the Michael Bay/Paramount Pictures movie of the same name. \nAbout Troubled Times\nInterweaves the stories of a revolutionary and a bombing victim to explore the roots and unintended consequences of political violence. \n1976. The Vietnam War had ended\, but radical political groups still operated clandestinely throughout the United States. Nowhere was the threat of civil unrest greater than in Boston. Racial tensions had been building since a federal judge ordered the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools\, and civic leaders were counting on the pageantry of the nation’s Bicentennial to boost both tourism and investment. In April\, the Sam Melville-Jonathan Jackson Unit\, prison reformers schooled in Marxism and angered by US interventions abroad\, bombed the Suffolk County Courthouse\, injuring twenty-two people. The site of the blast marked the spot where the lives of two men intersected: a mill town kid who’d been radicalized in Vietnam and prison\, and an immigrant waiting in line because he needed to renew a cab license. \nFifty years after the bombing shook the city\, Troubled Times tells the story of lives changed by political violence at a time when the American experiment is again in crisis.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/kevin-galvin-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Simon Critchley at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Simon Critchley—Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York—for a discussion of his new book\, Heidegger Thinking: ‘Being and Time’ Explained. He will be joined in conversation by Sean Kelly—Dean of Arts and Humanities and Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. \nAbout Heidegger Thinking\nAn intelligent but approachable guide to the main concepts of Heidegger’s magnum opus\, Being and Time\, by one of the leading philosophers of our day. \nHeidegger Thinking: ‘Being and Time‘ Explained is a comprehensive\, long-form deep dive into what is arguably the most significant philosophical work of the last century. Scheduled for release ahead of the 2027 centenary of Heidegger’s masterpiece\, this volume by Simon Critchley (edited by Ben Olson) aims to explain the entirety of Heidegger’s project in terms that are understandable and—most importantly—usable for intelligent\, curious laypeople. \nThe book is structured into 18 chapters\, each presenting a key concept such as Dasein\, Being-in-the-world\, Anxiety\, and Ecstatic Temporality. Critchley avoids the “bazaar of pop philosophy\,” opting instead for a slow\, intimate journey through Heidegger’s notoriously difficult architecture without sacrificing depth. The work originated as a popular podcast series recorded during the 2020 pandemic\, capturing a cultural moment where themes of mortality and isolation were uniquely resonant. However\, this text is a complete rewrite\, clarified and expanded with a full scholarly apparatus for independent study. \nCritchley’s central thesis is that “Being is time and time is finite.” By stripping away Heidegger’s baroque jargon\, he demonstrates how Heidegger’s insights into our “thrown open clearing of finitude” can change one’s life. This book invites readers to master the “rhythm of existence” and move beyond the “cabinet of consciousness” to embrace a lived\, worldly experience. \nHeidegger Thinking is the essential guide for serious readers who intuit the importance of Heidegger’s thought but require a clear path through its legendary complexity.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/simon-critchley-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Aruni Kashyap at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Aruni Kashyap—acclaimed author\, translator\, and an associate professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia—for a discussion of his new novel\, How to Date a Fanatic. He will be joined in conversation by Neel Mukherjee—award-winning author and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard University. \nAbout How to Date a Fanatic\nIn this compassionate\, poignant novel set-in contemporary India\, a young professor searches for connection and love during a time of political and cultural upheaval. \nAs political tensions rise precipitously across India\, Rohit returns to Delhi University to teach and gets caught in a web of unrequited love with his friend Dhruv. To alleviate his inevitable heartbreak\, Rohit seeks relationships with other men in the city\, until he meets and embarks on a delicate new romance with the effervescent Sayan\, a literature student he hopes will be the answer to getting over Dhruv. \nRohit’s life soon becomes more complicated as the country’s political tensions erupt on campus\, sparking a turbulent student-led movement that entangles Rohit when Dhruv joins the fray\, a tipping point that changes Rohit’s life forever. Set against the vibrant\, volatile tapestry of modern India\, Rohit and his friends must learn to navigate the challenges and triumphs of queer life to survive in an unpredictable political landscape. \nPropulsive\, tense\, and charged with humor and tenderness\, How to Date a Fanatic is an exploration of identity\, connection\, and the enduring hope for a better future in a rapidly changing world.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/aruni-kashyap-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Cal Hoffman at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Cal Hoffman—acclaimed author of Easy to Slip—for a discussion of his new novel\, Judah Can’t Tell. He will be joined in conversation by Joanna Rakoff—author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the prize-winning novel A Fortunate Age.  \nAbout Judah Can’t Tell\nOn the morning a powerful US senator is accused of a long-buried sexual scandal\, his son Harris wakes to a world suddenly unrecognizable. \nA journalist\, husband\, and father\, Harris has built his life on reason\, responsibility\, and restraint. But as headlines spread and reputations unravel\, he is pulled back into the unresolved gravity of his childhood—into memories of political ambition\, parental absence\, and a father whose public idealism shaped Harris’s private life in ways he is only beginning to understand. \nAs Harris navigates a single charged day—balancing work\, marriage\, parenthood\, and a culture hungry for judgment—Judah Can’t Tell becomes a powerful meditation on power\, consent\, masculinity\, and moral inheritance. What do we owe the people we love when the truth threatens to destroy them? And what do we owe our children when silence feels safer than honesty? \nWritten with emotional acuity and moral clarity\, Judah Can’t Tell is a timely\, deeply human novel about reckoning—personal\, political\, and generational.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/cal-hoffman-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Ellen Warner at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Ellen Warner—author of The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty—for a discussion of her new book\, The Other Half: Forty Men Reveal Life After Fifty.  \nAbout The Other Half\nAn insightful and intimate look at aging and masculinity that includes interviews and portraits of men from around the world. \nWhat do men really think? From a taxi driver to a prince\, a fishmonger to a professional boxer\, The Other Half reveals the inner thoughts of men over fifty from different nationalities and different walks of life in their own words\, illuminated by their portraits. Author and photojournalist Ellen Warner traveled the world to find out what men really think about love\, work\, and aging\, speaking with well-known figures like film director James Ivory and journalist Bill Keller\, as well as a philosopher\, a chess grandmaster\, a hair stylist\, a financier\, and more. Interviewing men from Colombia\, Greece\, Saudi Arabia\, Sierra Leone\, Sweden\, and everywhere in between\, Warner assembles a moving portrait of their reflections\, insights\, challenges\, and hard-won triumphs. \nA companion to The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty\, Warner’s latest book shares the diverse\, vibrant experiences of men over fifty.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/ellen-warner-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Liza Black at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store and the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights welcome Liza Black—associate professor of history and of Native American and Indigenous studies at Indiana University and author of Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film\, 1941–1960—for a discussion of her new book\, How Settlers Get Away with Murder: The Killing of Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit People in the Americas. \nAbout How Settlers Get Away With Murder\nA forensic history of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people crisis that unmasks the Americas’ oldest and most relentless crime: Native genocide.  \nSince the arrival of Columbus\, thousands of perpetrators have gotten away with murder\, burying evidence of their crimes in police reports and court testimony. How Settlers Get Away with Murder unearths that hidden evidence to expose the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people (MMIW2S). \nHistorian and citizen of Cherokee Nation Liza Black examines 5 cases in Canada\, the US\, and Mexico\, from 1908 to 2017. Rejecting narratives that blame victims’ poverty or trauma\, Black dissects police files\, coroners’ reports\, and court records to uncover a harsh historical reality: The evidence of settler violence has been hiding in plain sight. \nThis landmark work delivers a damning verdict: The same systems of law and policing that have targeted Native people for centuries have also shielded their killers. Through meticulous archival interrogation\, Black demonstrates how police\, courts\, and coroners have functioned not as instruments of justice but as pillars of a system designed to protect settler violence.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/liza-black-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Julie Orringer at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Julie Orringer—author of three award-winning books: How to Breathe Underwater\, The Invisible Bridge\, and The Flight Portfolio\, which was the basis for the 2023 Netflix series Transatlantic—for a discussion of her new novel\, Luna\, Phoenix\, Queen. She will be joined in conversation by Jayne Anne Phillips—author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Night Watch. \nAbout Luna\, Phoenix\, Queen\nA spellbinding tour de force from the bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge—a novel about varieties of infidelity\, the provenance of a literary masterpiece\, and the power of storytelling to shape identity and destiny. \nDava and Barr Pennington\, professors at a Midwestern university\, both harbor potent secrets. Fiction writing is his specialty; English literature is hers. But Dava is unhappy in their marriage\, and secretly in love with a colleague\, Svetlana White\, who teaches in the Russian Studies department; spurred by their complicated liaison\, she spends her nights working on a novel about two women who run a domestic violence shelter in coastal Maine. Though she loves the work and the refuge it provides\, the writing becomes increasingly difficult as her memory begins to fail; tests reveal that she’s suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s. After a precipitous decline\, she moves to a memory-care facility in a neighboring town. Soon afterward\, her husband\, alone in the house at night\, discovers her hidden manuscript\, which he reads with envy\, and then with anger\, as he extrapolates his wife’s affair from the relationship described in the novel’s pages. Over the next two years he rewrites the novel and publishes it as his own\, to wide acclaim. But persistent feelings of guilt lead him to confess his theft to an unlikely party\, who leads others to the truth. \nLuna\, Phoenix\, Queen tells its tale of artistic and marital betrayal in a chorus of voices. We hear from Barr as he becomes obsessed with Luna\, a horrifically injured dog at a local shelter; from Dava as she meets Svetlana for the first time\, on a transatlantic flight to Dublin; from Milo\, Dava’s son\, as he hides in the woods with Naomi\, Svetlana’s daughter; from Svetlana\, experiencing the loss of a relationship that ended before it could come to fruition; from Evie\, Barr’s research assistant\, who witnessed Dava’s last days at home with her husband; from James\, the Pennington’s’ younger son\, who makes a startling discovery after his father’s death; and from Milo and Svetlana again\, as they grieve the injustice of Barr’s theft and confront the devastation of Dava’s disease. \nIn a narrative that spans four decades and four thousand miles\, Luna\, Phoenix\, Queen illuminates the power of storytelling and explores the terror of losing the ability to make sense of our world. It is a cry of rage against our vulnerability and helplessness; an acknowledgment of the mysteries beneath the familiar surface of our world; and ultimately\, if unexpectedly\, a radical testament to love in its many forms.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/julie-orringer-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian—cardiologist\, public health scientist\, and Director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University—for a discussion of his debut book\, Food Is Medicine: Healing Our Bodies\, Nourishing Our Minds\, and Transforming Our Food System. \nAbout Food Is Medicine\nAn urgent exposé of how the food we eat is making us sick\, how we can heal\, and the revolutionary new food system that can mend our health\, economy\, and planet from a world-renowned expert on nutrition and public health.  \nThe food we eat is making us sick. In the nation and around the world\, diet is now the leading cause of illness and premature death\, from heart disease to the global pandemic of diabetes. Advocates of “healthy diets” pin the blame on overeating\, but the bigger issue is that we undereat—we don’t consume enough nutritious food\, food that nourishes and heals. Harnessing the power of the right foods can do more than prevent illness; it can treat it\, extending life while reducing the crippling cost of ill health to our communities and economy. Food Is Medicine shows the way\, from transforming our diets to keep us healthy to getting the right foods into our stores and onto our plates—all while eating plentifully and pleasurably. \nA global authority at the intersection of nutrition\, medicine\, and public policy\, Dariush Mozaffarian\, MD\, DrPH draws on cutting-edge research to turn complex science into a clear\, actionable program to end our health crisis. Exposing a broken food system\, plagued by the harms of ultraprocessing and ruinous to the environment\, he lays out exactly how the meals we eat are damaging our bodies. He reveals the medicinal\, healing power of ideal nutrition and introduces the innovators who are pioneering solutions—at the doctor’s office\, in supermarkets\, in the halls of Congress\, and above all for individuals\, to empower them to access the foods they need to live well. \nWith clarity and optimism\, braiding science\, storytelling\, and practical wisdom\, Food Is Medicine lays out a vision for a twenty-first century food system that will restore health\, nourishment\, and equity without sacrificing convenience or choice. In the process\, these solutions can revitalize our economy\, and even help to heal our planet. \nPraise for Food Is Medicine\n“Drawing on three decades at the unique intersection of cardiology\, nutrition\, and public health\, Dariush Mozaffarian makes a compelling case that the story of modern health is fundamentally the story of food. Food Is Medicine is that rare book that manages to entirely reframe a debate you probably thought you understood while staying firmly grounded in science and the lived reality of patients.”—Dr. Sanjay Gupta \n“Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian’s message is urgent\, optimistic\, and crucial for reclaiming our health and agency. Dr. Mozaffarian masterfully bridges the gap between cutting-edge science and the everyday behavior changes needed to heal our bodies and minds. Food Is Medicine shows that we cannot truly thrive without reforming our approach to food.”—Arianna Huffington\, Founder and CEO of Thrive Global \n“Dariush Mozaffarian is my go-to voice for understanding how food fundamentally shapes human health and well-being. At a time when chronic disease defines modern life\, Food Is Medicine cuts through decades of confusion with clarity\, science\, and wisdom—explaining the root causes of why we are getting sicker and how we can heal. Deeply grounded in science\, wonderfully readable\, and ultimately hopeful\, this book is a roadmap for healthier people and a healthier planet.”—Bill Frist\, M.D.\, former Senate majority leader
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/dr-dariush-mozaffarian-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Fuchsia Dunlop at The Cambidge Public Library
DESCRIPTION:RSVP is required for this event. \nHarvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Fuchsia Dunlop—James Beard Award–winning author The Food of Sichuan and the IACP Award finalist Invitation to a Banquet —for a discussion of her new cookbook\, Five Tastes: Delicious Recipes for Chinese Flavors. \nTicketing\nRSVP for free to this event or choose the “Book-Included” ticket to reserve a copy of Five Tastes and pick it up at the event. Following the presentation will be a book signing. \nNote: Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event\, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the event.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/fuchsia-dunlop-at-the-cambidge-public-library/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Marcia Chatelain at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Marcia Chatelain—Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise—for a discussion of her new book\, How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington. She will be joined in conversation by Christian Hosam—Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Affiliate of the Albright Institute at Wellesley College. \nAbout How Bright the Path Grows\nFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the little-known story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen\, but barely heard\, at the 1963 March on Washington. \nThere is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom\, when 250\,000 Americans gathered beneath the Lincoln Memorial to call for an end to segregation. There were reverends and rabbis\, activists and Rat-Pack icons—and of course the day’s headliner\, whose prophetic dream of a post-Jim Crow world has forever defined the Civil Rights Movement. But there is no “class photo” of the Black women who helped organize the march\, performed on its main stage\, or were honored during its “Tribute to Negro Women Fighters for Freedom.” \nIn How Bright the Path Grows\, Marcia Chatelain weaves a gleaming group portrait of these singular women. Among this cohort were several household names: vaudeville icon Josephine Baker; civil rights activist Rosa Parks gospel legend Mahalia Jackson\, and Daisy Bates\, champion of the Little Rock Nine. But many were relative unknowns\, including Eva Jessye\, the choir director who designed the day’s musical program\, and Anna Hedgeman\, the coordinator who pushed in the eleventh hour for a tribute to Black women’s work. \nHow Bright the Path Grows is a scintillating group biography\, rendering the lives of thirteen Black women visionaries—some famous\, others soon to be—in novelistic detail and like never seen before.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/marcia-chatelain-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:20261022T190000
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SUMMARY:Akbar Shahid Ahmed at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Akbar Shahid Ahmed—award-winning journalist and Diplomatic Correspondent at NOTUS—for a discussion of his new book\, Crossing the Red Line: Biden\, His Advisors\, and Israel’s War in Gaza. He will be joined in conversation by Indira Lakshmanan—award-winning journalist and co-host of WBUR’s Here & Now. \nAbout Crossing the Red Line\nA powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza\, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist. \nFollowing Hamas’s horrific October 7 attack\, Israel launched an offensive of staggering violence in Gaza\, saying it targeted militants while regularly striking hospitals\, schools\, and homes. Critically acclaimed journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed offers extensive reporting and chilling new details about how the Biden administration enabled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—ignoring warnings from government experts and implicating Americans in thousands of apparent war crimes. Washington did little to free Israeli hostages or shield innocent Palestinians as protests grew nationwide and international human rights principles crumbled. Still\, President Joe Biden denied he was giving Netanyahu a blank check. He set a “red line” over the town of Rafah\, where more than 1 million Palestinians were sheltering\, saying an assault there would risk Israel’s pipeline of American bombs. Yet after Netanyahu’s advance began\, deepening Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe\, Biden’s team kept weapons flowing. \nIn vivid prose and with unparalleled access to insiders\, Ahmed depicts a White House that resisted a course correction as its failures became undeniable. He probes Biden’s inner circle: a paranoid and imperious group shaped by the War on Terror\, whose choices fueled tens of thousands of avoidable deaths among Palestinians\, Lebanese\, and Israelis\, torpedoed long-time standards for warfare\, and created a more dangerous world for us all. The Biden administration’s decisions drove voter backlash that helped Donald Trump regain power\, and established patterns of impunity that have spurred wider bloodshed under Trump. \nCrossing the Red Line is an urgent reckoning with Biden’s record on Gaza that is vital to understanding historic damage to America’s standing in the world\, and a period whose dark consequences will resonate globally for decades to come.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/akbar-shahid-ahmed-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:20261023T190000
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SUMMARY:Jim Emison at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Jim Emison—retired Tennessee trial attorney\, co-founder of Tennesseans for Historical Justice\, and a board member of the Tennessee Historical Society—for a discussion of his book\, Murder on the Hatchie: The NAACP’s First Martyr. He will be joined in conversation by Cornell William Brooks—Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School. \nAbout Murder on the Hatchie\nA groundbreaking work of true crime and civil rights history\, Murder on the Hatchie uncovers the 1940 lynching of NAACP leader Elbert Williams–America’s first martyr for Black voting rights–and the federal failures that buried the case for more than eighty years. \nThe forgotten lynching that launched America’s fight for Black voting rights–and the federal cover-up that followed. \nMurder on the Hatchie uncovers one of the earliest and most consequential crimes in America’s long struggle for Black voting rights: the 1940 lynching of Elbert Williams in Brownsville\, Tennessee. A founding member of the local NAACP\, Williams was murdered for attempting to register Black voters\, decades before the more famous murders of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers. \nThrough rigorous research and gripping narrative\, retired trial attorney Jim Emison reconstructs the events surrounding Williams’s lynching and the federal government’s failure to prosecute his killers. Drawing on FBI files\, Department of Justice correspondence\, and eyewitness accounts\, Emison reconstructs how white officials conspired to silence a community\, implicating local law enforcement\, federal agents\, and even national NAACP leadership. \nEmison repositions Brownsville as a pivotal site in civil rights history and exposes how voter suppression\, racial terror\, and government complicity shaped the American democracy we inherit today. With a foreword by Margaret A. Burnham\, Murder on the Hatchie challenges liberal assumptions about justice and the embedded character of Jim Crow. For readers of Blood Done Sign My Name and By Hands Now Known\, this is both a gripping true-crime investigation and a vital work of historical restoration.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/jim-emison-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:October Harvard Square Book Circle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our October Harvard Square Book Circle meeting!\nThis month we’re discussing Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey. \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. We love new participants! If you are interested in joining the Book Circle’s email list\, sign up through this form. \nAbout Ghostland\nOne of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016\nFrom the author of The Unidentified\, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history. \nColin Dickey is on the trail of America’s ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels\, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals\, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination\, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and “zombie homes\,” Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as “the most haunted mansion in America\,” or “the most haunted prison”; others\, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia\, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget. \nWith boundless curiosity\, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living—how do we\, the living\, deal with stories about ghosts\, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed\, for whatever reason\, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story\, but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made—and why those changes are made—Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks\, one of things left undone\, crimes left unsolved. \nSpellbinding\, scary\, and wickedly insightful\, Ghostland discovers the past we’re most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/october-harvard-square-book-circle/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Thomas Frank at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Thomas Frank—a founding editor of The Baffler\, a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal\, and the bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen\, Liberal—for a discussion of his new book The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America’s Biggest Racket. \nAbout The Creativity Con\nA bold indictment of America’s chronic obsession with creativity and innovation\, tracing how these beloved ideas came to dominate our political and economic conversation while serving to mask inequality and protect elite interests.  \n“Innovation” and “creativity” have been the defining watchwords of American exceptionalism for decades. They’re deployed by business leaders\, tech gurus\, military strategists\, educators\, and urban planners to describe our unique standing in the world. While other countries supposedly suffer from regimentation and a fatal lack of imagination\, the United States is often portrayed as an unmatched dynamo of new ideas and products. In The Creativity Con\, Thomas Frank disabuses us of this notion\, offering a provocative account of the way creativity and innovation have been used as a kind of ideological cover for policies that reinforce the class system. \nFrank charts the construction of America’s glamorous self-image from Sputnik to Silicon Valley\, Apple to Lockheed Martin\, Madison Avenue to Main Street\, Richard Florida to Donald Trump. He deconstructs the innovation agendas touted by politicians; reads pop psychology; tours SXSW\, the mecca of creativity\, where musicians mingle with Pentagon officials; and looks in on the cafés\, sidewalk murals\, and bike lanes that populate the neighborhoods built for the creative class. Along the way\, Frank uncovers the insidious effects of centering innovation and creativity in our rhetoric while\, in practice\, nurturing exactly the opposite. He shows how\, in the name of these noble goals\, our leaders have reoriented the American economy around white-collar knowledge work\, cut taxes for the wealthy\, deregulated banks\, offshored manufacturing\, reoriented cities\, and destroyed what is truly creative about this country. \nDeeply original\, marked by Frank’s signature brilliance and acerbic wit\, The Creativity Con is a troubling X-ray of postwar American business and political culture—and a crushing indictment of the clichés that have undergirded its many failures.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/thomas-frank-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:ACOTAR Book #6 Midnight Release Party at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store invites you to a special midnight release party event for the highly anticipated sixth book in Sarah J. Maas’ smash-hit A Court of Thorns and Roses series. The title and cover will be announced soon. \nTicket holders will have access into the bookstore beginning at 10:30pm for 90 minutes of ACOTAR-themed activities\, including photo opportunities\, a costume contest\, and more. Come dressed as your favorite character and join us as we count down to midnight when each ticket holder will receive their copy of ACOTAR Book #6. Ticketing information and details are below. \nTicketing\nTickets include admission for one and one hardcover copy of A Court of Thorns and Roses Book #6 by Sarah J. Maas. \nNote: Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event\, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the event. \n  \n\nImage
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/acotar-book-6-midnight-release-party-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:20261027T180000
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SUMMARY:The Practice of Wisdom Panel with contributors Davíd Carrasco\, Arthur Kleinman\, Stephanie Paulsell & Michael Puett at the Cambridge Public Library
DESCRIPTION:The Practice of Wisdom Panel with contributors Davíd Carrasco\, Arthur Kleinman\, Stephanie Paulsell & Michael Puett at the Cambridge Public Library
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/the-practice-of-wisdom-panel-with-contributors-david-carrasco-arthur-kleinman-stephanie-paulsell-michael-puett-at-the-cambridge-public-library/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Taylor Grothe at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Taylor Grothe—writer of adult and young adult horror\, horror romance\, and dark fantasy\, and scholar of medieval literature and Nordic Saga—for a discussion of their adult debut novel\, Lethal Kiss. They will be joined in conversation by Christa Carmen—Bram Stoker Award-winning and three-time Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island\, How to Fake a Haunting\, and Beneath the Poet’s House.  \nAbout Lethal Kiss\nA blood-soaked love story of rage\, revenge\, and belonging\, Taylor Grothe’s adult debut is a sapphic horror/romance that’s as grotesque as it is beautiful. \nPreston University wasn’t Marcella’s first choice of employment\, but there’s only so many deaths that can be chalked up to mysterious circumstances before people get suspicious\, and her 300 years on Earth have taught her how to pack up and move quickly. She’s resolved to keep her head down and enjoy a couple semesters at Preston—and keep her feedings few and far between. That is\, until a professor is found murdered on campus\, and it’s not her doing. \nWhen Lacie was hired as an assistant professor at Preston a year ago\, she knew not everyone makes tenure. But when her only friend disappears without a word\, she begins to suspect that her other missing coworkers didn’t just quit. Unfortunately\, there’s only one person she can trust enough to ask for help—the beautiful\, aloof\, and tantalizingly secretive latecomer\, Marcella. \nLacie and Marcella team up to make a chilling discovery: there’s something festering under the marble floors of Preston University\, and it’s hungry. Marcella might be a monster\, but the deeper into the mystery they dig\, the more she’s attracted to Lacie’s immovable bravery and quiet intelligence. And the closer they grow\, the more Lacie is drawn to Marcella’s vicious nature. \nThe weight of spilled blood and stolen opportunity might be too heavy to carry alone\, so it’s a good thing they have each other. Marcella just has to get her fill\, first.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/taylor-grothe-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Dr. Raj Panjabi at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Dr. Raj Panjabi—Former White House Senior Director\, Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering\, and Associate Physician at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School—for a discussion of his new book\, Safer: A Playbook—Turning Fear into Action and Crisis into Community.  \nAbout Safer\nThe essential guide for navigating crisis and uncertainty from the acclaimed physician who led the White House response to the world’s most dangerous health emergencies. \nWhen crisis hits—a sudden illness\, a global disruption\, or a career upheaval—our instinct is to retreat. Yet decades of research prove that our greatest protection isn’t isolation\, it’s connection. \nFrom high-stakes decisions in the White House Situation Room and hospital emergency room to dramatic shocks of violence and illness his family struggled with in their own living room\, Dr. Raj Panjabi has navigated humanity’s most precarious moments. Now\, he translates hard-earned wisdom into a step-by-step roadmap. Through gripping storytelling and cutting-edge science\, Safer reveals the eight practical “plays” to protect what matters most at home and work. \nYou will learn how to: \n\nNavigate Fear and Denial: Use Situation Room insights to take decisive action without falling into paralysis.\nCut Through the Noise: Use science to assess your risk and protect those you love amidst the flood of misinformation.\nBuild Trust in Divided Times: Move from isolation to connection and find common ground.\nGain Control Despite Chaos: Adapt to change and transform vulnerability into your greatest strength.\n\nIn an era of uncertainty\, you don’t have to live in fear. You just need a better playbook. Safer gives us the tools for emerging from any crisis more connected than ever before.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/dr-raj-panjabi-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Edward Steed at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Edward Steed—award-winning cartoonist for the New Yorker and Grammy-winner for Best Recording Package for his Father John Misty album cover—for a discussion of his new book\, Happy Hour: A Book of Drawings. He will be joined in conversation with Ruth Lichtman— Emmy-nominated director and producer of film\, audio\, and theatre. \nAbout Happy Hour\nA generational talent’s old cartooning soul returns for a second round.  \nEdward Steed continues his winning streak as the most exciting cartoonist in The New Yorker’s pages in the 21st century. Hailed as the last great hope of the single panel gag strip\, the sole saving grace of a print media taking its last dying breaths\, Steed brings a deftly scrawled lacerating sense of humour that alludes to classic New Yorker cartoonists like Charles Addams\, William Steig\, and Sol Stenberg as well as modern cringe alt-comedy. \nWith Happy Hour out hot on the heels of his best-selling and critically-lauded debut collection\, Forces of Nature\, Steed proves he’s no flash in the pan but an enduring comedic talent. Every page in this collection is a hilarious master class on how to tickle a funnybone.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/edward-steed-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:20261031T200000
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SUMMARY:Harvard Book Store After Dark
DESCRIPTION:Happy Halloween! Stop by Harvard Book Store for a special Halloween trick-or-treating shopping experience. \nFrom 8:00pm-10:00pm\, we’ll be turning the lights off for some spooky browsing among the shadows\, where participants will be provided a flashlight (while supplies last). Customers who wear their Halloween costume during this shopping experience will get 15% off their purchase\, valid only on October 31\, 2026 from the hours on 8:00pm-10:00pm\, excludes items already discounted. Candy will be given out\, while supplies last. \nThis shopping experience is free to attend\, but please RSVP below so we have a rough idea of how many customers to expect.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/harvard-book-store-after-dark/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deni Elliott at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Deni Elliott—co-director for the National Ethics Project and professor emerita in the Department of Journalism and Digital Communication at the University of South Florida—for a discussion of her new book\, Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself. \nAbout Catching Sight\nOne woman’s journey through progressive blindness and the extraordinary guide dog who kept her safe along the way.  \nWhen ethics scholar Deni Elliott\, born with limited vision\, realized she could no longer navigate the world safely alone\, she turned to a guide dog—a decision that reshaped her understanding of disability and independence. \nWritten in collaboration with master trainer Graham Buck\, Catching Sight offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of guide dog breeding and training\, revealing the intelligence and decision-making skills these dogs develop from birth. \nCatching Sight is for readers interested in the transformative power of human relationships with animals. As Deni confronts her changing reality\, she shares the hidden world of guide dog training and introduces Alberta\, a yellow Lab whose quiet brilliance changed her interaction with the world and herself. \nCatching Sight offers a fresh and unforgettable perspective on disability\, identity\, and the power of partnership.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/deni-elliott-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Riley Black at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Riley Black—science correspondent for Smithsonian\, widely-recognized expert on paleontology\, and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs—for a discussion of their new book\, Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love\, Life\, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore. \nAbout Tyrant Lizard Queen\nFrom the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs\, an imaginative celebration of T. Rex from hatching to adulthood.  \nTyrannosaurus rex is a prehistoric celebrity. Exceeding 40 feet in length and weighing over 9 tons\, the largest individuals of this dinosaurian species were intimidating predators capable of crushing bone and consuming more than a hundred pounds of flesh in a bite. But the last of the tyrant dinosaurs had a life beyond ripping and tearing. More than 66 million years ago\, T. rex courted each other\, nested\, watched over their offspring\, slept\, drank\, and explored ancient floodplains inhabited by a fantastic cast of impressive dinosaurs like the huge long-neck Alamosaurus and burly\, three-horned Torosaurus. For the first time\, the life story of this impressive\, sensitive predator is told as if you were there to watch it unfold. \nIn her latest prehistoric nature walk\, bestselling and award-winning author Riley Black follows the life of plucky T. rex Snaggletooth from the time she hatches through her tumultuous adulthood. The prehistoric forest Snag emerges into is full of danger\, and yet\, as Riley weaves the latest fossil discoveries into the story\, the carnivorous dinosaur survives to play\, court\, fight\, sleep\, nest\, and more as she grows up in Cretaceous North America. She tussles with rival tyrannosaurs\, hunts for delectable prey\, and finds soft moments of connection in the forest. Even the most die-hard dinosaur fan will come away with a new perspective and appreciation for the Tyrant Lizard Queen.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/riley-black-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:20261109T190000
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SUMMARY:Lloyd Schwartz at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Lloyd Schwartz—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism\, Poet Laureate of Somerville\, and the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston—for a discussion of his latest poetry collection\, Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4\, 1948) and Other Poems.  \nAbout Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4\, 1948) and Other Poems\nLloyd Schwartz’s luminous new collection Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4\, 1948)and other poems reaffirms his place as one of our most keenly attentive poetic voices. With characteristic wit\, intimacy\, and musical acumen\, these poems move fluidly between the rooms of memory and the rooms we live in\, between wry horror\, elegy\, and celebration. The title poem “has so many planes\,” said Helen Vendler. “It’s one of the most dramatic lyrics I think that it’s possible to write.” One of our most celebrated music critics tunes his verse to what Nicholas Everett tags the “idioms and nuances of American speech.” It’s like being invited into the cluttered study of a good and brilliant friend\, where even the most mundane observation is shot through with a bemused heart buoyed by the nimblest of intellects. Each line twinkles at “That dark\, knowing little joke\,” that we are all of us connected deeply and across time by the art we love and create\, and that attention itself is the highest form of devotion.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/lloyd-schwartz-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:David Weinberger at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes David Weinberger—researcher at Harvard metaLAB\, long-time affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center\, and bestselling author of Everyday Chaos—for a discussion of his new book\, Beautiful Particulars: How AI’s Attention to the Smallest of Differences Is Reshaping Our Biggest Ideas. \nAbout Beautiful Particulars\nA fresh and eye-opening new explanation of AI—and how its focus on specifics is changing our ideas about ourselves and our world. \nFrom a Harvard researcher\, philosopher\, entrepreneur\, former comedy writer\, and bestselling author.  \nAmid the clamor about AI\, Beautiful Particulars poses a unique question: Not how does our use of AI change what we do\, but how is the idea of AI already subtly yet fundamentally reshaping how we think about ourselves and our world? \nIn clear\, engaging\, and even humorous prose\, David Weinberger offers a new perspective on how machine learning works and how it may already be changing our basic and deepest ideas. Through lively examples\, he shows that AI’s success—with all its risks and dangers—is taking us past our millennia of reliance on laws and principles by revealing what morality\, free will\, creativity\, causality knowledge\, and even reality itself look like now that we’re able to let the particulars speak their tiny truths. \nThe author poses questions not usually asked: What does a coin look like to AI? When AI gives you evidence that the earth is round\, why are its own reasons for saying that so different? Why does an AI image generator create a “selfie” of ancient Aztec warriors with broad smiles that it “believes” are historically unlikely? If AI becomes conscious but bodiless\, could it still make good moral decisions? Why is the world so much better at being causal than AI could ever “understand”? How does AI show us that genuine creativity is not about a “spark” but about moments that feel right? And how can you take the temperature of a joke? \nBeautiful Particulars offers a new—and hopeful—perspective on how machine learning works\, and how that’s already changing how we understand what it means to be human in the age of AI.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/david-weinberger-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Dana Mashoian Walrath at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Dana Mashoian Walrath—award-winning writer\, artist\, and author of the graphic memoir Aliceheimer’s—for a discussion of her haunting new graphic narrative\, The Book of Genocides. \nAbout The Book of Genocides\nIn this haunting graphic narrative\, an award-winning writer\, artist\, and descendant of genocide survivors brings history’s darkest horrors to life\, calling on us to remember\, repair\, and resist. \nThe Book of Genocides is a haunting graphic narrative that compels readers to confront the most harrowing chapters of human history not as distant events but as visceral experiences. Dana Mashoian Walrath covers ten major atrocities across five centuries: the mass slaughter of the First Peoples of the Americas\, the brutalization of Black Americans\, the devastation of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders\, the Armenian genocide\, the Holocaust\, the Cambodian killing fields\, the Rwandan genocide\, the Bosnian genocide\, the deadly persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar\, and the genocide in Gaza. \nWalrath makes plain that the purpose of genocide is always a land grab\, and its central apparatus is dehumanization: each chapter delves into how dehumanization operates\, not just through violence but through the political and intellectual systems that enable it. The book’s unique interactive design allows readers to reshape images of victims into grotesque forms mirroring the mental mechanisms of dehumanization. With each page turn\, the victims’ humanity is restored\, making their suffering undeniable. \nThe Book of Genocides is an unsettling experience\, shot through with the emotional gravity of horrific events—not just historical memories but ongoing realities\, painful truths that shape our world and demand our action.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/dana-mashoian-walrath-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Charrise Barron at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Charrise Barron—minister\, a gospel artist\, and Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University—for a discussion of her new book\, The Platinum Age of Gospel: The Years When Crossover Music Changed Everything. She will be joined in conversation by Jeremy D. Battle—senior pastor at The Avenue: The Historic Massachusetts Avenue & Western Avenue Baptist Church. \nAbout The Platinum Age of Gospel\nThe story of gospel music’s chartbusting mainstream success and the accompanying shifts in Black Christian theology. \nFrom the clandestine spirituals of the enslaved—songs that voiced sorrow\, hope\, and an unshakeable belief in divine deliverance—to the rousing anthems of the Civil Rights era\, gospel music has shaped and reflected the deepest yearnings of Black Americans striving toward freedom. During gospel’s celebrated golden age (ca. 1945–1965)\, the music became inseparable from the struggle for racial justice. At the same time\, the genre gained unprecedented visibility in Black churches and the American mainstream. Performers such as Clara Ward\, Mahalia Jackson\, and Sam Cooke expanded the reach of sacred music\, carrying its message across cultural and religious boundaries. \nEthnomusicologist\, minister\, and singer Charrise Barron explores the next major era in Black gospel: the two decades between 1993 and 2013\, which she calls the platinum age. In this transformative period\, gospel music fully embraced the aesthetics of popular culture. Artists like Kirk Franklin and Mary Mary topped the charts\, adopted contemporary styles\, and reached audiences far beyond traditional church settings. Commercial success both fostered and responded to profound shifts. Influenced by Pentecostal megachurches and new theological trends\, platinum-age gospel retained its spiritual resonance while largely dispensing with the golden age’s political impulses. \nWhile the platinum age delivered popularity and financial returns\, it also diluted gospel’s historical role as a prophetic voice against injustice. Combining music criticism\, cultural history\, and theological insight\, Barron offers a compelling account of how gospel music has continually reinvented itself—and what it gained and lost in the process.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/charrise-barron-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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