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May

Friday, May 16th 3:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

Friday Forum

MARTHA NUSSBAUM discusses
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

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Friday, May 16th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

CARL ZIMMER discusses
 
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

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Monday, May 19th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

ALEXANDRA FULLER reads from
 
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
 
$5 tickets on sale now.

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Tuesday, May 20th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

 
JOHN HARWOOD and
GERALD F. SEIB discuss
 
Pennsylvania Avenue:
Profiles in Backroom Power

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Wednesday, May 21st 7:30 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store

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Wednesday, May 21st 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

GIL ADAMSON reads from
The Outlander: A Novel

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Thursday, May 22nd 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

KENN KAUFMAN and TIM GALLAGHER discuss
 
Flights Against the Sunset:
Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son
 
and
 
Falcon Fever:
A Falconer in the Twenty-First Century

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Friday, May 23rd 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

Winedown

 Latin, Swing, Disco, Greek, and Bollywood
Dance Instruction Demos
 
from the instructors at 
The Cambridge Center for Adult Education

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Tuesday, May 27th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

TED SORENSEN discusses
 
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History 
 

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Wednesday, May 28th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

MARGOT LIVESEY reads from
  
The House on Fortune Street: A Novel

 

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Thursday, May 29th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

 
RUSSELL BANKS, MIKE GRAVEL,
 
and HOWARD ZINN
 
  
"A Conversation on American Identity"

 

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Friday, May 30th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

ARMISTEAD MAUPIN reads from
 
Michael Tolliver Lives: A Novel

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June

Tuesday, June 3rd 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

MARJORIE GARBER has been
 Profiling Shakespeare

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Friday, June 6th 6:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

DAVID SEDARIS presents
 
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
 
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT (5/15/08).
 

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Saturday, June 7th 7:00 PM
@ First Parish Church Meetinghouse

LEWIS BLACK presents
 
Me of Little Faith
 
$5 tickets on sale now.

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Monday, June 9th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

ANDRE DUBUS III reads from
The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
 
$5 tickets go on sale Monday, May 19th. 

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Tuesday, June 10th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

JEFFREY ALFORD and NAOMI DUGUID
 present

Beyond the Great Wall:
Recipes and Travel in the Other China

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Wednesday, June 11th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

ROBERT H. PATTON discusses

Patriot Pirates:
The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune
in the American Revolution

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Thursday, June 12th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

KELLY McMASTERS
reads from
Welcome to Shirley:
A Memoir from an Atomic Town

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Tuesday, June 17th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

ALISON BASS discusses
Side Effects:
A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower,
and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

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Wednesday, June 18th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

NIGEL HAMILTON lays out
How To Do Biography: A Primer

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Wednesday, June 18th 7:30 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store

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Thursday, June 19th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

GARY MARCUS discusses

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction

of the Human Mind

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Monday, June 23rd 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

DAVID WROBLEWSKI reads from
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel

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Tuesday, June 24th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

SAMUEL SHEM reads from
his new novel
The Spirit of the Place

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Wednesday, June 25th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

SASA STANISIC reads from
How the Soldier Repairs the Grammaphone

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Thursday, June 26th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

ALAN FURST reads from
The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel
 
$5 tickets go on sale Thurs., June 5th. 

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Friday, June 27th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

BARBARA EHRENREICH discusses
This Land Is Their Land:
Reports from a Divided Nation

$5 tickets go on sale Mon., June 9th.

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Monday, June 30th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

Introducing...

The Harvard Square Book Circle

A new monthly book-discussion group
at Harvard Book Store

First up: John Banville's
Booker Prize-winning The Sea

More Details to Come...

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