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Wednesday, March 28th, 6:00 PM, 2007
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

SETTING THE OLDWAYS TABLE

A Panel Discussion at The Brattle Theatre

and Special Post-Panel Reception at Casablanca Restaurant

Tuesday, March 20th, 6:30 PM, 2007
@ Harvard Book Store

ELLEN COONEY reads from A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies

Monday, March 19th, 6:30 PM, 2007
@ Harvard Book Store

LIONEL SHRIVER reads from The Post-Birthday World

Friday, March 16th, 3:00 PM, 2007
@ Harvard Book Store

ABNER SHIMONY discusses Science, Understanding, and Justice: The Philosophical Essays of Martin Eger

Wednesday, March 14th, 6:30 PM, 2007
@ First Parish Church

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

A CELEBRATION OF W.H. AUDEN presented by Harvard Book Store and The Poetry Society of America

Thursday, March 8th, 6:30 PM, 2007
@ Harvard Book Store

SHERWIN NULAND reads from The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being

Tuesday, March 6th, 6:30 PM, 2007
@ Harvard Book Store

MARILYN JOHNSON reads from The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

Monday, March 5th, 6:30 PM, 2007
@ Harvard Book Store

WILLIAM URY discusses The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes

Wednesday, March 7th, 6:00 PM, 2007
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

TY BURR discusses The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together

Tuesday, March 13th, 6:00 PM, 2007
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

ISHMAEL BEAH reads from A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Monday, March 12th, 6:00 PM, 2007
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

JOHN BANVILLE as BENJAMIN BLACK reads from his new novel, Christine Falls

Wednesday, March 7th, 6:00 PM, 2007
@ First Parish Church

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

ELAINE PAGELS and KAREN L. KING discuss Reading Judas: The Gospels of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity

Friday, March 9th, 6:30 PM, 2007
@ Harvard Book Store

STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST discusses 100 Places Every Woman Should Go

Thursday, March 1st, 6:00 PM, 2007
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

JANE SMILEY reads from Ten Days in the HillsTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO A WINTER STORM

Wednesday, May 31st, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

LYNDALL GORDON discusses Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

Friday, May 12th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

ANTHONY FLINT discusses This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America

Thursday, May 25th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

DAVID REMNICK in conversation with NPR's TOM ASHBROOK about his new book Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker

Thursday, April 20th, 7:00 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

The Pen and the Sword: Writing and Expression in Wartime and the 2006 Vasyl Stus Freedom-to-Write Award Ceremony with Nathaniel Fick, Uzodinma Iweala, and Geraldine Brooks

Monday, May 15th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

GAY TALESE in conversation with Robert H. Giles about A Writer's Life

Tuesday, May 23rd, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

DR. SHIRIN EBADI discusses Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope

Friday, May 19th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

DR. SUSAN PORIES, DR. GORDON HARPER & SACHIN H. JAIN discuss The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death

Tuesday, May 30th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR JAMES T. CAMPBELL discusses Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

Thursday, May 11th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

Psychologist DANIEL GILBERT discusses Stumbling on Happiness

Tuesday, May 9th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

DBC PIERRE reads from his novel Ludmila’s Broken English

Wednesday, May 17th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

MICHAEL POLLAN discusses The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Thursday, May 4th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT discusses The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs

Wednesday, May 3rd, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

KAREN ARMSTRONG discusses The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

Thursday, April 27th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

WOLE SOYINKA discusses his memoir You Must Set Forth at Dawn

Sunday, April 9th, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Grafton Street Pub & Grill

FRANK MCCOURT signs copies of his memoir Teacher Man

Monday, April 17th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

JAMES GREEN discusses Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America

Monday, May 8th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

CATHARINE A. MACKINNON discusses Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues

Wednesday, April 5th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Hillel

LOUISE GLUCK reads from Averno: Poems

Thursday, April 20th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

SEBASTIAN JUNGER discusses A Death in Belmont

Tuesday, April 25th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

PAUL RUSESABAGINA discusses his autobiography An Ordinary Man

Friday, April 21st, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

JANE FONDA discusses her autobiography My Life So Far

Monday, April 24th, 7:00 PM, 2006
@ Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall

A CELEBRATION OF ELIZABETH BISHOP WITH ALICE QUINN, ROBERT PINSKY, FRANK BIDART, JORIE GRAHAM & LLOYD SCHWARTZ

Wednesday, April 12th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall

A discussion about Science in the Age of Certainty with JOHN BROCKMAN, DANIEL C. DENNETT, DANIEL GILBERT, MARC D. HAUSER, ELIZABETH SPELKE & SETH LLOYD

Thursday, April 13th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall

FRANZ WRIGHT reads from God's Silence: Poems

Wednesday, April 19th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

DAVID MITCHELL reads from and discusses his novel Black Swan Green

Tuesday, April 18th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Sackler Museum

ROSS KING discusses The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Friday, April 7th, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR CHARLES S. MAIER discusses Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors with PROFESSOR NIALL FERGUSON

Friday, April 21st, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR A.C. GRAYLING discusses Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombings of Civilians in Germany and Japan

Wednesday, April 26th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE reads from and discusses English, August: An Indian Story

Tuesday, May 2nd, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

JEROME KAGAN discusses An Argument for Mind

Thursday, April 6th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

JOHN EIDINOW discusses Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment

Monday, April 10th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

TOBY FABER discusses Stradivari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection

Monday, April 3rd, 5:30 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

PROFESSOR AMARTYA SEN discusses Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny

Tuesday, April 4th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

COLSON WHITEHEAD reads from his novel Apex Hides the Hurt

Monday, March 13th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

GARRY WILLS discusses What Jesus Meant

Wednesday, March 15th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Individual tickets are $10 and can be purchased at Harvard Book Store.

TONY KUSHNER & ROBERT BRUSTEIN discuss Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961

Thursday, March 23rd, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

DARA HORN reads from and discusses The World to Come

Wednesday, March 22nd, 7:30 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

KEVIN PHILLIPS discusses American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

Thursday, March 16th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Hillel

CHRISTINA ROBB, CAROL GILLIGAN, MARY R. HARVEY & JANET L. SURREY discuss This Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology

Tuesday, May 16th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PETER HESSLER discusses Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present

Monday, May 22nd, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

CAROLINE PRESTON reads from Gatsby's Girl

Wednesday, May 10th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

ANN FESSLER discusses The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

Friday, May 5th, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN discusses Crises of Memory and the Second World War

Friday, April 28th, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR SUGATA BOSE discusses A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire

Friday, April 14th, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

RICHARD ZENITH discusses his translation of poet Fernando Pessoa's A Little Larger than the Entire Universe

Wednesday, May 24th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

MARTHA COLLINS signs copies of her book of poetry Blue Front

Thursday, May 18th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

REBECCA GOLDSTEIN discusses Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

Monday, March 20th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall

DANIEL C. DENNETT discusses Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Monday, March 27th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

ELIZABETH BORGWARDT discusses A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights

Wednesday, March 8th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

ERIC BURNS discusses Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism

Tuesday, March 28th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

DR. JOYCE CHAPLIN discusses The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

Tuesday, March 14th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

John McGahern's event for All Will Be Well has been cancelled.

Thursday, March 2nd, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

SONIA NAZARIO discusses Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

Tuesday, March 7th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

STEVE ALMOND & BILL SCHER discuss Proud to be Liberal

Friday, March 3rd, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR BETSY KLIMASMITH discusses At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930

Friday, March 10th, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR KAREN L. KING discusses The Secret Revelation of John

Friday, March 24th, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR ELLEN TREMPER discusses I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film

Monday, March 6th, 7:00 PM, 2006
@ First Parish Church

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or by calling (617) 661.1515.

TAYLOR BRANCH discusses At Caanan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968

Thursday, March 30th, 6:00 PM, 2006
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

JOHN BANVILLE reads from his novel The Sea

Friday, March 17th, 3:00 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR HARVEY C. MANSFIELD discusses Manliness

Friday, March 3rd, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

SEBASTIAN BARRY reads from his novel A Long Long Way

Thursday, March 9th, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

ALLEGRA GOODMAN reads from her novel Intuition

Wednesday, March 1st, 6:30 PM, 2006
@ Harvard Book Store

MICHAEL RUDOLPH WEST discusses The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations

Wednesday, May 25th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

LESLIE EPSTEIN, RACHEL KADISH & ALLEGRA GOODMAN discuss Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer

Thursday, May 26th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

MARK OPPENHEIMER discusses Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America

Tuesday, May 24th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Sackler Museum

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

AMY BUTLER GREENFIELD discusses A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

Monday, May 23rd, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

VICTOR S. NAVASKY discusses A Matter of Opinion

Friday, May 20th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

MEGAN MARSHALL discusses The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Thursday, May 19th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

MARTHA COOLEY reads from and discusses her new novel Thirty-Three Swoons

Wednesday, May 18th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Carl Honore

Wednesday, May 18th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

STEVEN JOHNSON discusses Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Pop Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter

Tuesday, May 17th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall

JEFFREY D. SACHS discusses The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Monday, May 16th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

KEVIN BOYLE discusses the paperback edition of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Friday, May 13th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

ANDREW CARROLL discusses Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters and One Man's Search to Find Them

Friday, May 13th, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

GERALD HOLTON discusses Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others

Thursday, May 12th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

DAVID FERRY discusses Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition

Wednesday, May 11th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Loretta Napoleoni

Monday, May 9th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Sackler Museum

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

TOSHIKO MORI, STEPHEN CASSELL, MONICA PONCE DE LEON & VINCENT JAMES discuss 10x10_2: 100 Architects 10 Critics

Wednesday, May 4th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Ray Kurzweil

Wednesday, May 11th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Boston Public Library

JUDITH MARTIN discusses Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Freshly Updated

Tuesday, May 10th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

DONALD HALL reads from and discusses The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon

Friday, May 6th, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

BERNARD BAILYN discusses Atlantic History: Concept and Contours

Thursday, May 5th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

DR. DANIELLE OFRI discusses Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine

Wednesday, May 4th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

KAI BIRD & MARTIN J. SHERWIN discuss American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Wednesday, May 4th, 2:30 PM, 2005
@ Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Andrew Kuper

Tuesday, May 31st, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

DAVID SEDARIS reads from the paperback edition of his book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Thursday, April 28th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Law School

Romeo Dallaire

Wednesday, April 27th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

MOLLY JONG-FAST discusses The Sex Doctors in the Basement: True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood

Friday, April 22nd, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

CAROL BUNDY discusses The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64

Thursday, April 21st, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

NEIL GERSHENFELD discusses Fab: Personal Fabrication, Fab Labs, and the Factory in Your Computer

Wednesday, April 20th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Alan Tonelson

Wednesday, April 20th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER reads from No Heaven

Tuesday, April 19th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

MICHELLE FEYNMAN discusses Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman

Monday, April 18th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

STACY SCHIFF discusses A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America

Friday, April 15th, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

CHARLOTTE GORDON discusses Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet

Wednesday, April 13th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Robert F. Drinan

Monday, April 11th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Cambridge YMCA

Tickets are required for this event and may be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

CAMBRIDGE READS: The Kite Runner

Friday, April 8th, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

ALAN WOLFE discusses Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It

Monday, April 4th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Jimmy Tingles’s Off Broadway Theater

Tickets for this event are $10. For more info call the Jimmy Tingle’s OFF BROADWAY theater box office at 617-591-1616. To purchase tickets please call TheaterMania at 1-866-811-4111 or visit www.jtoffbroadway.com where tickets can be purchased 24 hours a day.

The First Fiction Tour: MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE, MATTHEW CARNAHAN, MARYA HORNBACHER & EDWARD SCHWARZSCHILD read from their respective first novels The Effects of Light, Serpent Girl, The Center of Winter, and Responsible Men, with host Jimmy Tingle

Wednesday, April 6th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Friday, April 1st, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

ADAM KIRSCH discusses The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets

Monday, April 25th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ Up Stairs on the Square

Tickets are required for this event and cost $55. Contact Charlotte Silver (617-661-0372, ext. 2) for information.

An Evening With Ruth Reichl

Monday, April 25th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Brattle Theatre

RUTH REICHL reads from and discusses Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

Thursday, April 14th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

ILAN STAVANS discusses Dictionary Days

Monday, April 11th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

R.W. APPLE, JR. discusses Apple's America: The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities in the United States and Canada

Tuesday, April 5th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

JAMES ATLAS discusses My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale

Friday, April 1st, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

IAN MCEWAN reads from Saturday

Tuesday, March 22nd, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

ROBERT S. BOYNTON discusses The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

Friday, March 18th, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

MARY JO BANE, BRENT COFFIN & RICHARD HIGGINS discuss Taking Faith Seriously

Thursday, March 31st, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

ALFIE KOHN discusses Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

Wednesday, March 16th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Steven Rose

Tuesday, March 29th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

RON SLATE reads from his book of poetry The Incentive of the Maggot

Friday, March 11th, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

JOHN HOBERMAN discusses Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping

Thursday, March 10th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

PAUL MILLER AKA DJ SPOOKY discusses Rhythm Science

Wednesday, March 9th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Cambridge YMCA

Tickets are required for this event and may be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

Deborah Santana

Wednesday, March 9th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Marshall I. Goldman

Sunday, March 13th, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Somerville Theatre

Tickets are required for this event and can be purchased at the Somerville Theatre or through Ticketmaster.com.

The Rosie O'Donnell Choice Program Benefit: Celebrating Learning and Literacy in our Neighborhood

Thursday, March 24th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

ROBERT B. PARKER discusses Cold Service

Wednesday, March 16th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Brattle Theatre

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

MARILYNNE ROBINSON reads from and discusses Gilead

Wednesday, March 23rd, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Jeanne Guillemin

Wednesday, March 23rd, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

ELAINE SHOWALTER discusses Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys

Monday, March 21st, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

Laurence J. Kotlikoff's discussion of The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know About America's Economic Future has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Wednesday, March 30th, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Michael Klare

Wednesday, April 13th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Boston Public Library

JEANETTE WINTERSON reads from Lighthousekeeping

Tuesday, April 12th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

CAMILLE PAGLIA discusses Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems

Wednesday, April 6th, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER reads from and discusses Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Tuesday, March 15th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

RICHARD PARKER discusses John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics

Tuesday, March 8th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

JORIE GRAHAM reads from Overlord: Poems

Monday, March 7th, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

JUDY BUDNITZ & ELIZABETH GAFFNEY read from their respective works of fiction Nice Big American Baby and Metropolis

Friday, March 4th, 3:00 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

PROFESSOR STANLEY HOFFMANN discusses America Goes Backward and Gulliver Unbound: The Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq

Thursday, March 3rd, 6:00 PM, 2005
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

ROGER PENROSE discusses The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

Wednesday, March 2nd, 7:30 PM, 2005
@ First Parish Church

Os Guinness

Tuesday, March 1st, 6:30 PM, 2005
@ Harvard Book Store

MARY GORDON discusses Pearl

Thursday, May 20th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

ROBERT WHITAKER talks about his book The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

Wednesday, May 19th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

CHET RAYMO talks about his book Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain

Tuesday, May 18th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Sackler Museum

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

MATTHEW HART discusses his new book The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art

Friday, May 14th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Brattle Theatre

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515.

ALEXANDRA FULLER talks about her book Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

Thursday, May 13th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Boston Public Library

GAY MARRIAGE: LOOKING BEYOND MAY 17TH

Tuesday, May 11th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

RON CHERNOW discusses his book Alexander Hamilton

Monday, May 10th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Brattle Theatre

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ELAINE PAGELS talks about her book Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas

Friday, May 7th, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

MICHAEL GORRA discusses his new book The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany

Thursday, May 6th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Brattle Theatre

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NIALL FERGUSON, author of Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, interviewed by SAMANTHA POWER, author of "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide

Wednesday, May 5th, 7:00 PM, 2004
@ Brattle Theatre

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STANLEY CAVELL talks about his book Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of Moral Life

Tuesday, May 4th, 7:00 PM, 2004
@ Boston Public Library

Samuel Intrator

Monday, May 3rd, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Adam Nicolson

Thursday, April 29th, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Amy Goodman

Tuesday, May 4th, 6:30 PM, 2004
@ Up Stairs on the Square

Tickets are required for this event and cost $55. Contact Charlotte Silver (617-661-0372, ext. 2) for information.

Harvard Book Store and Up Stairs on the Square host JACQUES PEPIN

Thursday, April 1st, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Sackler Museum

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

Poet Laureate LOUISE GLÜCK introduces this year’s Yale Younger Poet PETER STRECKFUS, author of The Cuckoo

Wednesday, April 21st, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

JULIA ALVAREZ celebrates National Poetry Month at Harvard Book Store

Tuesday, April 13th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

A Celebration of Michael Kelly. With readers William Langewiesche, Samantha Power, P.J. O'Rourke, Tom Ashbrook and Mark Bowden

Saturday, March 20th, 2:30 PM, 2004
@ Cambridge YMCA

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Thursday, March 11th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Divinity School

Lorne Ladner

Saturday, March 20th, 12:30 PM, 2004
@ Brattle Theatre

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Graham Russel Hodges

Wednesday, March 31st, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

GERALD FOSTER talks about his book American Houses: A Field Guide to the Architecture of the Home

Friday, April 9th, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

MARCELO SUAREZ-OROZCO & DESIREE BAOLIAN QIN-HILLIARD discuss Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millenium

Thursday, April 22nd, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Whitehead Institute at MIT

STEVE OLSON discusses his book Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition

Friday, April 23rd, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

W. BARKSDALE MAYNARD discusses Walden Pond: A History

Friday, April 23rd, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Sackler Museum

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

HAROLD BLOOM discusses The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost

Thursday, March 18th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

PETER SINGER talks about his book The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush

Wednesday, April 28th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

ELIZABETH GRAVER reads from her novel Awake

Tuesday, April 27th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

DAVY ROTHBART talks about his new book Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World

Tuesday, April 20th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

STEVEN OZMENT talks about A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People

Friday, April 16th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

LYNNE TRUSS talks about Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Thursday, April 15th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

EDWARD CONLON talks about his memoir Blue Blood

Wednesday, April 14th, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Gus Speth

Thursday, April 8th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

RACHEL COHEN talks about her book A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967

Wednesday, April 7th, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Elizabeth Warren

Friday, April 2nd, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH discusses her new book Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History

Friday, March 19th, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

BEATRIZ MANZ discusses her new book Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope

Friday, March 12th, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

GARY MARCUS discusses his new book The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexity of Human Thought

Tuesday, March 9th, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ Memorial Church

Karen Armstrong

Wednesday, March 3rd, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

The Cambridge Forum presents Harvey Silverglate and Wendy Kaminer discussing Censorship: Left, Right, And Center

Wednesday, March 3rd, 12:30 PM, 2004
@ Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Robert Rotberg

Thursday, April 29th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Sackler Museum

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.

JOHN T. BETHELL & RICHARD M. HUNT discuss their new book Harvard A to Z

Friday, April 30th, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

MICHAEL IGNATIEFF discusses his new book The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror

Wednesday, April 21st, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Elizabeth Alexander

Monday, March 15th, 7:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

Join our Cambridge Reads Discussion of THE NAMESAKE. Note: Ms. Lahiri will not be attending the discussion. Please see the March 20th event below.

Tuesday, March 16th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

KATHERINE NEWMAN talks about her book Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings

Tuesday, March 2nd, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

CHARLES ROWAN BEYE talks about his book Odysseus: A Life

Friday, March 5th, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

OWEN GINGERICH talks about his book The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Masterpiece of Nicolaus Copernicus

Tuesday, March 9th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

KATE WENNER talks about her book Dancing with Einstein

Wednesday, March 10th, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Alexander Sanger

Wednesday, March 17th, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Louis Crompton

Tuesday, March 23rd, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

SCOTT HAAS talks about his book Are We There Yet? Perfect Family Vacations and Other Fantasies

Wednesday, March 24th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

CHANG-RAE LEE reads from his novel Aloft

Wednesday, March 24th, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Laurence Bergreen

Thursday, March 25th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Boston Public Library

ELLEN GOODMAN talks about her book Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times

Friday, March 26th, 3:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

DAVID QUIGLEY discusses his new book Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy

Tuesday, March 30th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Brattle Theatre

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DAVID EDMONDS talks about his book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time

Wednesday, March 31st, 7:30 PM, 2004
@ First Parish Church

Bob Schieffer

Wednesday, April 7th, 6:00 PM, 2004
@ Harvard Book Store

ROGER LOWENSTEIN discusses his new book Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing

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