CELEBRATE!
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner ADAM JOHNSON reads and talks with ANTHONY MARRA
Friday, May 24 7:30 PM at The Booksmith
Events
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06/07/2013 - 6:30pmJune means Pride, so get ready for our queerest Bookswap yet! Bring your favorite genre-bender: a queer book you love, a book by a queer author, a story you love illicitly - it all works. You'll talk about it in small groups, and at the end, we'll have a big, rowdy, white-elephant swap. $25 gets you dinner, an open bar, a closed bookstore all to yourself (and 40 of your new...
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06/10/2013 - 7:30pmWhat is a home? In FINDING HOME: How Americans Prevail, journalist and Haight Ashbury resident Sally Ooms showcases everyday people around the country who say home is rarely just the structure they live in. Americans are dealing with housing problems on a daily basis: vets and foster kids, single moms and laid-off workers, retirees and small business owners. Using her reporter’s skills to...
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06/11/2013 - 7:30pmAnti-globalization advocate Jerry Mander explores and expands on the inevitable failures of capitalism. "What may have worked in 1850 and 1900 is calamitous in 2012," says Mander, in his classic book, now in paperback. "It is killing the planet, dismantling democracy, and making people less happy, not more." In a departure from most previous writings about our...
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06/12/2013 - 7:30pmA startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov’s life and works -- notably Pale Fire and Lolita -- The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov brings new insight into one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic authors. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son...
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06/13/2013 - 7:30pmBabette's Feast meets Pirates of the Caribbean... “Cinnamon and Gunpowder reads like Joss Whedon and Patrick O’Brian sailed to Copenhagen together and, after surviving a ninja attack and firefight at sea, fell in love over a seven-course meal at Noma.” -- Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia During the golden age of piracy, female pirates were few and far between. In...
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