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SUMMARY:Roshan Sethi at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Roshan Sethi—award-winning writer\, director\, and practicing oncologist—for a discussion of his debut book The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero\, about the rise and fall of an unemployed actor who lands the greatest role of his life when he’s hired as a personal assistant to a demanding\, highly absurd Hollywood family.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/roshan-sethi-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:20260702T190000
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SUMMARY:Mark Peterson at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Mark Peterson—Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University and the Faculty Director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library—for a discussion of his book\, The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History. He will be joined in conversation by Emilie Connolly—Assistant Professor of History at Yale University and the award-winning author of Vested Interests.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/mark-peterson-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:20260701T190000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Margulis at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Elizabeth Margulis—Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Music at Princeton University\, where she directs the Music Cognition Lab—for a discussion of her new book\, Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams. She will be joined in conversation by Psyche Loui—Associate Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice in the Department of Music at Northeastern University\, where she directs the MIND (Music\, Imaging\, and Neural Dynamics) Lab.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/elizabeth-margulis-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:20260630T190000
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SUMMARY:Loubna Mrie at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Loubna Mrie—Syrian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times\, The London Review of Books\, Rolling Stone\, and The Atlantic—for a discussion of her new book\, Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening\, Rebellion\, and Survival in Syria. She will be joined in conversation by Ambassador Samantha Power—Pulitzer Prize–winning author\, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under President Biden\, and the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School\, as well as the William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/loubna-mrie-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:20260629T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T200000
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SUMMARY:Isaac Butler at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Isaac Butler—author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner The Method and the coauthor of The World Only Spins Forward—for a discussion of his new book\, The Perfect Moment: God\, Sex\, Art\, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/isaac-butler-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:20260626T190000
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SUMMARY:Phill Branch at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Phill Branch—writer\, live performance storyteller\, and regional Emmy Award-winning filmmaker—for a discussion of his new memoir The Double Dutch Fuss. He will be joined in conversation by Erica Buddington—public scholar\, poet\, and educator and Founder & CEO of Langston League.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/phill-branch-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:20260625T190000
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SUMMARY:Michael Bronski at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Michael Bronski—Professor of Practice in Media and Activism in the Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Program at Harvard University—for a discussion of his revised and expanded edition of his first book\, A Queer History of the United States: Revised and Expanded.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/michael-bronski-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:20260624T190000
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SUMMARY:Meg Stone at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Meg Stone—Executive Director of IMPACT Boston\, an abuse-prevention and empowerment self-defense organization—for a discussion of her book “Don’t Fight Back”: And 10 Other Myths About Crime\, Personal Safety\, and Gender-Based Violence. She will be joined in conversation by Shameka Gregory—Executive Director of the Domestic and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Program for the City of Cambridge.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/meg-stone-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:20260623T190000
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SUMMARY:Thomas S. Mullaney at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Thomas S. Mullaney—award–winning Stanford historian\, Guggenheim fellow\, and former Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress—for a discussion of his new book\, How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/thomas-s-mullaney-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:20260623T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T170000
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SUMMARY:Dave Zirin at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Dave Zirin—author of eleven books on the politics of sport and sports editor at The Nation Magazine—for a discussion of his new book\, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn. He will be joined in conversation by Howard Bryant—author of eleven books and winner of a 2025 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Series as an executive producer for Netflix’s The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox. \nAbout The People’s Historian\nA biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn\, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America. \nFrom The Nation magazine columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Zirin\, The People’s Historian is a deeply researched biography of Howard Zinn\, the beloved author of the classic national bestseller with more than four million copies sold\, A People’s History of the United States.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/dave-zirin-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:20260622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T200000
DTSTAMP:20260521T132253Z
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SUMMARY:Stephen O'Connor at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephen O’Connor—author of seven books\, including the novel Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings and the short story collection Here Comes Another Lesson—for a discussion of his latest novel\, We Want So Much to Be Ourselves. He will be joined in conversation by Rick Moody—author of six novels\, including The Ice Storm\, and professor at Tufts University.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/stephen-oconnor-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:20260617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T200000
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SUMMARY:Fergus M. Bordewich at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Fergus M. Bordewich—the award-winning author of nine previous nonfiction books\, including The First Congress and America’s Great Debate—for a discussion of his new book\, Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future. He will be joined in conversation by Kate Clifford Larson—prize-winning author of several biographies\, including Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer and Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter. 
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/fergus-m-bordewich-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T200000
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SUMMARY:Abigail Savitch-Lew at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Abigail Savitch-Lew—writer whose short stories have been published in The Round\, Post Road\, The Best Teen Writing of 2010\, and The Apprentice Writer—for a discussion of her debut novel\, Livonia Chow Mein. She will be joined in conversation by Michelle Min Sterling—the New York Times bestselling author of Camp Zero and professor of creative writing and literature at Berklee College of Music.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/abigail-savitch-lew-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:20260612T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T200000
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SUMMARY:Julie Schumacher at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Julie Schumacher—author of the national bestseller Dear Committee Members\, and award-winning Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota—for a discussion of her new story collection\, Patient\, Female: Stories.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/julie-schumacher-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:20260611T190000
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DTSTAMP:20260520T195200Z
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SUMMARY:Steven Pfau at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Steven Pfau—writer and editor based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in DIAGRAM\, Guernica\, The Iowa Review\, The Offing\, Passages North\, and other publications—for a discussion of his new memoir\, Say Nephew: On Boyhood\, Unclehood\, and Queer Mentorship\, a Debutiful “Most Anticipated Book of the Year”.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/steven-pfau-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:20260610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T200000
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SUMMARY:Tillie Walden at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Tillie Walden— cartoonist\, illustrator\, and creator of a number of award-winning graphic novels\, including On a Sunbeam\, Spinning and the Walking Dead’s Clementine Trilogy—for a discussion of her new graphic novel\, Charity and Sylvia. She will be joined in conversation by Michael Bronski—Professor of the Practice in Activism and Media in the Studies of Women\, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/tillie-walden-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:20260609T180000
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SUMMARY:Tom Lin at the Cambridge Public Library
DESCRIPTION:RSVP is required for this event. \nHarvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Tom Lin—Carnegie Medal-winning author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\, and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Iowa—for a discussion of his highly anticipated new novel\, Babylon\, South Dakota.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/tom-lin-at-the-cambridge-public-library/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260609T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260609T170000
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SUMMARY:Christopher M. Finan at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Christopher M. Finan—former executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship and the former president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression—for a discussion of his new book Freedom of Speech: A People’s History of Democracy’s Most Essential Right. He will be joined in conversation by Randall Kennedy—Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School and the author of Say It Loud!: On Race\, Law\, History\, and Culture. 
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/christopher-m-finan-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:20260608T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T200000
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SUMMARY:Anna Badkhen at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Anna Badkhen—author of eight books of nonfiction\, including Bright Unbearable Reality\, longlisted for the National Book Award—for a discussion of her new essay collection\, To See Beyond. She will be joined in conversation by Teju Cole—novelist\, essayist\, photographer\, and the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard University.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/anna-badkhen-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:20260603T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260603T190000
DTSTAMP:20260506T195502Z
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SUMMARY:Justin Baer at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Justin Baer—award-winning journalist and editor for The Wall Street Journal—for a discussion of his new book\, House of Fidelity: The Rise of the Johnson Dynasty and the Company That Changed American Investing. He will be joined in conversation by Bill Haynes—founder of BackBay Communications and recently retired financial services communications professional\, having spent nearly 40 years in the field. \nAbout House of Fidelity\nThe gripping\, definitive account of the private family behind one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.  \nWhen Edward C. Johnson 2d founded Fidelity in 1946\, investing was a pursuit reserved for the elite. Today\, more than $15 trillion flows through Fidelity’s customer accounts and investment funds—touching the lives of one in five American adults. Fidelity helped invent modern retail investing: democratizing access to mutual funds\, introducing the 401(k)\, and upending the need for traditional brokers. But behind the scenes of this financial juggernaut is a family saga unlike any other. \nIn House of Fidelity\, veteran journalist Justin Baer tells the definitive story of the Johnsons—a New England dynasty that fiercely guarded control of their company while reshaping Wall Street. From the founder’s bold leap into Boston’s insular investing circles\, to the meteoric rise of Peter Lynch\, to behind-closed-doors battles over succession and legacy\, Baer reveals a company and a family locked in a delicate balance of innovation\, influence\, and internal power struggles. \nHouse of Fidelity is a sweeping history of American investing—and the dynasty that came to define it. \nPraise for House of Fidelity\nHouse of Fidelity pulls the curtain back on one of the country’s most powerful and mysterious financial institutions…It’s a must read.” —William D. Cohan\, New York Times bestselling author of Power Failure \n“House of Fidelity is an important book\, an engrossing\, lively look at the transformation of both the nation’s most important investment firm — and modern-day financial markets.”—Gregory Zuckerman\, author of The Man Who Solved the Market
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/justin-baer-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:20260602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T190000
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SUMMARY:Robert Pinsky at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:About Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems\nThe remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author.  \nAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America—announced the arrival of a major new voice in American poetry. Now\, these acclaimed books are presented together in a single volume featuring a new preface by the author\, introducing a new generation of readers to the groundbreaking early work of a beloved poet. Sadness And Happiness explores everyday subjects such as the streets and oceanfront of Pinsky’s hometown of Long Branch\, New Jersey\, while the long title poem of An Explanation of America examines personal and national myths as it transports readers across the country. \nAbout On Poetry\, Culture\, and Democracy\nTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author.  \nFor Robert Pinsky\, poetry’s individual\, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium—with poems brought to life by one person at a time—gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the former poet laureate—The Situation of Poetry and Democracy\, Culture and the Voice of Poetry\, in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/robert-pinsky-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Morgan Thomas at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Morgan Thomas—acclaimed author of the story collection Manywhere—for a discussion of their debut novel\, Mad Eden. They will be joined in conversation by Milo Todd—acclaimed author of the national bestselling novel The Lilac People and co-editor-in-chief for the award-winning LGBTQ+ literary journal\, Foglifter Journal. \nNOTE: Photos and videos are prohibited at this event. We kindly ask that audience members do not photograph the speakers.  \nAbout Mad Eden\nFrom a pathbreaking writer\, a thrilling\, form-bending novel about a trans healthcare worker whose carefully built life is suddenly imperiled \nRo and Liam live in a ramshackle cabin in a secluded stretch of Florida. Neither their home nor their sometimes-tumultuous relationship is what the world would call perfect\, but to Ro—newly diagnosed with autism and working as a patient navigator for people seeking gender-affirming care—their life\, despite the deeply inhospitable political climate\, is a kind of paradise. \nIt’s hard to pinpoint exactly what shatters their peace. There’s Quentin\, the unpredictable teenager for whom Liam and Ro are quasi-parents\, who visits on his way to college\, where he plans to finally start T. There’s the appearance of “Mad Eden\,” an online fantasy serial about heroic dragon riders that increasingly becomes Ro’s obsession. And then there’s a seemingly innocuous patient video call that results in consequences both unexpected and grave. This triad of circumstances sends Liam’s and Ro’s world spinning toward disaster—unless Ro can become the real-life hero their situation demands without betraying who they are and who they love. \nWith colossal heart and preternatural skill\, Morgan Thomas crafts a deliciously destabilizing debut novel that challenges us to confront and reinvent questions of language\, sex\, prejudice\, identity\, and the shifting scales of morality. Playing with the possible relationship between autism and time to forge an ingenious new kind of storytelling\, Mad Eden imagines\, with exhilarating courage\, how we might yet joyfully live in a precarious world.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/morgan-thomas-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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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. \nAbout Arachnomania\nIn praise of spiders in all their inspirational glory.  \nSpiders are often found lurking in dusty corners\, where we can observe them with interest or brush them away with disgust—or make a run for it\, as the agitated Miss Muffet does. They are just as prevalent in our cultural landscapes\, starring in horror films\, inspiring works by famous artists and writers\, and featured in myths and folktales. In Arachnomania\, Maria Tatar explores how these creatures became our totem animals\, our significant others\, and our curved mirrors. Spiders model engineering genius in the construction of webs that have become powerful metaphors for drawing us out of our social isolation and connecting us in a fragile ecosystem. But these arachnids are also solitary in their habits and savage in their survival tactics. Spiders combine horror and beauty\, and that may explain why we endow them with symbolic cultural weight. \nTatar invites us to acknowledge our collective arachnophobia yet also embrace arachnophilia and celebrate spiders for their cultural benefits and real-world merits. Spiders have been portrayed as the kindred spirits of femmes fatales and spinster sleuths. They have operated as proxies for our fear of nuclear annihilation but appear also in the form of benevolent gods and\, in E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web\, as a heroic barnyard savior. Spiders\, Tatar reminds us\, enable us to sustain our way of life on earth even as they continue to scare the living daylights out of us. With Arachnomania\, Tatar offers up an anthem to the humble creatures that haunt our imaginations\, reminding us of just how much we are the kindred spirits of the arachnids we should think of as “some spiders.”
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/maria-tatar-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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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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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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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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