Local Readings and Events

May
7

Jane Hyun

Jane Hyun discusses Leadership Toolkit for Asians: The Definitive Resource Guide for Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling at Point 32 Health. Find more information here.

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May
7

Mark Cecil

Mark Cecil discusses Bunyan and Henry: Or, The Beautiful Destiny, in conversation with Jane Roper, at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.

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May
8

Hilke Schellmann

Hilke Schellmann discusses The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, And Why We Need To Fight Back at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.

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May
8

Larry Tye

Larry Tye discusses The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America, in conversation with Gary Burton, at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.

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May
8

John Dear

John Dear discusses The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark, and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence at Sacred Heart Church. Find more information here.

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May
8

Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan discusses Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality, in conversation with Antonio Regalado, at Harvard University. Find more information here.

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May
8

Robin Bernstein

Robin Bernstein discusses Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit, in conversation with Koritha Mitchell, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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May
9

Joan Nathan

Joan Nathan discusses My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories, in conversation with Judith Rosenbaum, at The Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.

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May
9

Susan Zalkind

Susan Zalkind discusses The Waltham Murders: One Woman's Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.

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May
10

Isaac Arnsdorf

Isaac Arnsdorf discusses Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy, in conversation with Steven Levitsky, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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May
13

Malia C. Lazu

Malia C. Lazu discusses From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, in conversation with Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates, at GBH. Find more information here

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May
14

Larry Tye

Larry Tye discusses The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.

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May
14

Caroline Paul

Caroline Paul discusses Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking — How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age at Belmont Books. Find more information here.

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May
15

John Kaag

John Kaag discusses American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation, in conversation with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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May
17

Robin Bernstein

Robin Bernstein discusses Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, in conversation with Brandon M. Terry, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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May
19

Andrea Kriz

Andrea Kriz discusses Discussion: Learning To Hate Yourself As A Self-Defense Mechanism: and Other Stories, in conversation with Shariann Lewitt, at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.

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May
20

Lucas Mann

Lucas Mann discusses Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, in conversation with Nina Maclaughlin, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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May
21

Shefali Luthra

Shefali Luthra discusses Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in a Post-Roe America, in conversation with Deborah Becker, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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May
22

Erik Larson

Erik Larson discusses The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, in conversation with Emiko Tamagawa, at The Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.

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May
29

Tom Seeman

Tom Seeman discusses Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds, in conversation with Mira Bartók, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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May
1

Sabrina Sholts

Sabrina Sholts discusses The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs, in conversation with Dr. Larry Madoff, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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Apr
30

Mark Cecil

Mark Cecil discusses Bunyan and Henry or, The Beautiful Destiny, in conversation with Steve Almond, at Porter Square Books: Boston. More information can be found here.

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Apr
30

Renée Bergland

Renée Bergland discusses Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science, in conversation with Anna Henchman, at Harvard Book Store. More information can be found here.

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Apr
30

Alice Wong

Alice Wong discusses Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Nicole Lee Schroeder, and Ellen Samuels at Harvard Book Store (virtual). Find more information here.

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Apr
30

Melissa Giberson and Amy Ferris

Melissa Giberson discusses Late Bloomer: Finding My Authentic Self at Midlife and Amy Ferris discusses Mighty Gorgeous: A Little Book about Messy Love, in conversation with Jessica Keener, at East End Books Boston. More information can be found here.

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