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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T190000
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SUMMARY:Theo Baker at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Theo Baker—undergraduate at Stanford University and the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious George Polk Award—for a discussion of his book\, How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University. He will be joined in conversation by Indira Lakshmanan—co-host of 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T080000
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SUMMARY:Joseph Osmundson at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Joseph Osmundson—professor of microbiology at New York University\, and the author of the National Book Critics Circle and Lambda Literary Award Finalist Virology—for a discussion of his new book\, Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood. He will be joined in conversation by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein—prize-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos\, and an associate professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/joseph-osmundson-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Liaquat Ahamed at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Liaquat Ahamed—Pulitzer-prize winning author of Lords of Finance—for a discussion of his new book\, 1873: The Rothschilds\, the First Great Depression\, and the Making of the Modern World. He will be joined in conversation by Roger Lowenstein—New York Times bestselling author of Buffett\, When Genius Failed\, and The End of Wall Street.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/liaquat-ahamed-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T190000
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Fairyington at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephanie Fairyington—journalist who writes on gender\, sexuality\, family\, and parenting—for a discussion of her memoir\, Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by Abbie E. Goldberg—Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, where she also serves as the Director of Women’s & Gender Studies and the Director of Clinical Training\, and the author of four books including\, LGBTQ Family Building.  \nAbout Ugly\nA tender\, moving\, and insightful account of queer motherhood and an interrogation of life on the margins of American culture as a self-described “ugly” woman.  \nUgly is a word with fangs that can kill a woman’s self-esteem in one bite. Edicts about how women should look\, behave\, and think are the brutal forge through which they are made — not born. And to defy the pretty imperative is to become invisible. It can be a hard thing to admit to yourself\, let alone to your child— to say the words\, “I am ugly\,” or “I am seen as ugly.” But early on in her motherhood journey\, watching her young daughter begin to wrestle with beauty standards\, Stephanie Fairyington felt compelled to face her own demons\, to unpack her own ugly self-perception\, one that she could trace to her own childhood\, in order to conquer this seemingly immoveable frontier\, far too taboo even among women to broach—the ways in which women’s lives are unfairly contoured by the nature of their looks. \nThe multiple iterations of ugliness that Fairyington saw in her young self—her physical appearance\, her unavoidably obvious queerness\, and her dissonant gender expression—are not present in her beautiful and traditionally feminine daughter. But Fairyington’s old feelings of inadequacy take on new meaning as she confronts fresh insecurities around her role as the non-biological mother in her relationship\, exacerbating wounds from a lifetime of being treated differently: from the poverty of her genetic inheritance to questions about her parentage to doubts about the legitimacy of her family. \nInterlacing cultural history and analysis with memoir\, Ugly is a probing investigation into cultural norms and the formation of our aesthetic sense of self. Fairyington contrasts her so-called ugliness with her daughter’s attraction and adherence to beauty ideals\, a tender and tenuous condition that by age seven she was already walking a tightrope to maintain. By sharing the history of her troubled self-image\, Fairyington invites us to go rogue\, to invent a new language and logic to overthrow all the ways that women have been cultivated to hate themselves.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/stephanie-fairyington-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T190000
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Fairyington at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephanie Fairyington—journalist who writes on gender\, sexuality\, family\, and parenting—for a discussion of her memoir\, Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by Abbie E. Goldberg—Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, where she also serves as the Director of Women’s & Gender Studies and the Director of Clinical Training\, and the author of four books including\, LGBTQ Family Building. 
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/stephanie-fairyington-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T190000
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SUMMARY:MJ Corey at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes MJ Corey—writer and psychotherapist best known as Kardashian Kolloquium on TikTok and Instagram—for a discussion of her new book\, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto. She will be joined in conversation by Tameka Vasquez—Guyanese-American futurist\, strategist\, trainer\, and speaker. \nAbout Dekonstructing the Kardashians\nFrom the creator of the highly popular Kardashian Kolloquium comes a new media manifesto for the TikTok age\, blending theory and cultural analysis to explain the meteoric rise of the Kardashians and explore what their fame can teach us about the way media functions today.  \nSince 2007\, Kim Kardashian and the extended Kardashian family have been mesmerizing—and scandalizing—America. Whether we’ve liked it or not\, we’ve been inundated with stories of their social lives\, scandals\, and reality show shenanigans and have witnessed the subsequent ascent of their multibillion-dollar fashion\, beauty\, and media empire. But the question remains: Why are the Kardashians so famous in the first place? And what does this tell us about the new media that have delivered them to us? \nIn Dekonstructing the Kardashians\, MJ Corey\, creator of the viral social media presence Kardashian Kolloquium\, brings us not only the definitive chronicle of the family that’s captivated a nation\, but\, perhaps more important\, the story of how media has transformed in the internet age and how it continues to transform us as individuals and as a culture at large. Part media theory\, part cultural analysis\, Dekonstructing the Kardashians interweaves history from the past fifty years of Western media—from the Old Hollywood studio system\, to the advent of the twenty-four-hour news cycle\, to tabloid culture and beyond—with analysis of the cultural influence Kim Kardashian wields over us all and the influences that have shaped her in kind. In so doing\, Corey offers proof that the Kardashians are\, in fact\, the First Family of our image-saturated and deeply divided nation\, while also demonstrating how they hold the keys to understanding the disjointed\, self-referential reality of our current era.
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LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:MJ Corey at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes MJ Corey—writer and psychotherapist best known as Kardashian Kolloquium on TikTok and Instagram—for a discussion of her new book\, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/mj-corey-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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