Local Readings and Events

Jun
14

Don Gillis

Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers, in conversation with Ben Weber and Enid Eckstein, at Boston Public Library: Jamaica Plain. Find more information here

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Jun
16

Marcus Rediker

Marcus Rediker discusses Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea, in conversation with Lee Blake, at American Ancestors. Find more information here

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Jun
16

Don Gillis

Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers, in conversation with Bill Walczak, at Boston Public Library: Codman Square. Find more information here

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Jun
17

Don Gillis

Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers at West End Museum. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Dahlia Adler

Dahlia Adler discusses Come As You Are, in conversation with Diana Urban and Jennifer Dugan, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here

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Jun
20

Thomas Mallon

Thomas Mallon discusses The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994, in conversation with Christopher Castellani, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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Jun
23

Bennett Parten and Manisha Sinha

Bennett Parten discusses Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation and Manisha Sinha discusses The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 at American Ancestors. Find more information here

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Jun
23

Kevin Sack

Kevin Sack discusses Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church, in conversation with Jim Dao, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Elissa Altman

Elissa Altman discusses Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create, in conversation with Tova Mirvis, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here

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Jun
25

Kate Marvel

Kate Marvel discusses Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, in conversation with Miriam Wasser, at Brattle Theatre. Find more information here

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Jun
25

John Sanbonmatsu

John Sanbonmatsu discusses The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, in conversation with Frances Moore Lappé, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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Jun
29

Janice Hechter

Janice Hechter discusses Where Are the Women? The Girl Scouts' Campaign for the First Statue of Women in Central Park at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here

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Jun
13

A'Lelia Bundles

A'Lelia Bundles discusses Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, in conversation with Callie Crossley, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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Jun
13

Adam Met

Adam Met discusses Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World at First Parish Church. Find more information here

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Jun
13

Don Gillis

Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here

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Jun
12

Dr. Pria Anand

Dr. Pria Anand discusses The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains, in conversation with Dr. Suzanne Koven, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here

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Jun
12

Julia Blanter

Julia Blanter discusses The Martha's Vineyard Cookbook, in conversation with Elle Simone Scott, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here

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Jun
12

Michael Vorenberg

Michael Vorenberg discusses Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War, in conversation with Dimitry Anselme, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here

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Jun
12

Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson discusses The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success, in conversation with Vanessa Kirsch, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here

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Jun
12

Don Gillis

Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers at Boston Public Library: South Boston. Find more information here

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Jun
12

Dr. Pria Anand

Dr. Pria Anand discusses The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains, in conversation with Dr. Jason Silverstein, at BioMed Realty. Find more information here

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