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Viet Thanh Nguyen at Harvard Book Store
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The Pulitzer Prize
At 3:15 on Monday, an excited voice rang through the Harvard Book Store offices. "
THE SYMPATHIZER JUST WON THE PULITZER!" Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the new nonfiction book
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, had been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel
The Sympathizer, new to paperback this month.
While we book-folk are always excited to learn what recent literature has been newly honored, this was an unusual circumstance.
The newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner would be reading at the bookstore in four hours.
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Photo by Linda Greenhouse for The Boston Globe
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Responding to the news, Professor Nguyen
posted to his website:
"I felt queasy and struck by literary
lightning. I went to do a book talk at Harvard Bookstore and was so
pleased to have a conversation with so many people. I just want to say
to all of you who are reading this what I've tried to say to the press.
Of course it's wonderful for me to get this prize. But within minutes of
getting it, I knew that I owed tremendous thanks to everyone who has
gone before me in the great, ongoing struggle for social justice, for
peace, for genuine equality, for representation for all at every level
of every society. I think of the enormous debts I owe to everyone who
fought for civil rights, for radical power, for economic equity, and how
all these issues are inseparable from justice in the literary world. No
minority writer, no writer of color, can claim that he or she
accomplished anything purely on their own merit. We all owe so much to
the collective struggles and activists that preceded us, that laid the
foundations for our individual achievement, to everyone lucky enough to
be remembered and so many who have been forgotten."
Congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen. Read his entire statement "On Winning the Pulitzer"
here, and read
The Sympathizer.
Speaking
of the Pulitzer Prize. . . our further congratulations (and more
gleeful cheering) go to local author Kelly Link, whose story collection Get in Trouble was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer for Fiction.
Kelly,
joined by author Samantha Hunt, will be here at the bookstore for a
very special, very weird, very wonderful late-night event on Independent Bookstore Day. Check out our complete Bookstore Day lineup here, and get tickets for "After Hours at the Bookstore" while they last.
Check out the many more ticketed events we have coming up this April/May! Learn more and purchase tickets here.
» Diane Rehm with Robin Young (Apr 24)
» Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky (Apr 25)
» NOFX Book Signing (Apr 28)
Book included
» After Hours at the Bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day with Samantha Hunt and Kelly Link (Apr 30)
» Angela Duckworth with Amy Cuddy (May 4)
» Sidney Blumenthal (May 13)
» Nathaniel Philbrick (May 15)
» Siddhartha Mukherjee (May 18)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
» Cass R. Sunstein (May 23)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
» Eric Ripert (May 31)
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale now
400 Years of Shakespeare
April 23rd marks the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare's death. We're celebrating William Shakespeare this week
with a display of books on the bard.
Also, on Saturday, April 23rd, from 12pm to
5pm, you're invited to join the bookstores of Harvard Square, the
Harvard Square Business Association, and Cambridge Historical Tours for
the
9th Annual Bookish Ball and Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration. This free, family-friendly festival will feature bookstore strolls, Shakespearian performances, birthday cake, and more.
Thanks for Choosing Harvard Book Store
We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this newsletter. Please send any comments to Alex at
newsletter@harvard.com.
Thanks for reading,
Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store
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New on Our Shelves
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Mothering Sunday:
A Romance
by Graham Swift
$22.95
Knopf, hardcover
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"This
is the story of a woman's becoming, as she discovers her power and
possibility. It is a lot to pack into such a slim and tidy volume. But
for all the detailed examination of character and the bold sweep of
time, there is not a word wasted." --The Spectator
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Far and Away:
Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-five Years
by Andrew Solomon
$30.00
Scribner, hardcover
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Far and Away
collects Andrew Solomon's writings about places undergoing seismic
shifts -- political, cultural, and spiritual. With his signature
brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is
altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when
governments alter.
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Scholarly
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What Is Subjectivity?
by Jean-Paul Sartre
$22.95
Verso, paperback
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In 1961, the prolific French
intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci
Institute in Rome. He posed the question "What is subjectivity?" -- a
question of renewed importance today. This work includes a preface by
Michel Kail and Raoul Kirchmayr and an afterword by Fredric Jameson.
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Kids & Young Adult
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Saving Montgomery Sole
by Mariko Tamaki
$17.99
Roaring Brook Press, hardcover
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"
Saving Montgomery Sole is a deeply
satisfying, smart, and necessary kind of book. I no longer have my copy,
because once I finished it, I immediately handed it to one of my high
school students. 'Read this,' I said. 'If you love it like I do, pass it
on. Otherwise, give it back.' I haven't seen it since. And that's a
good thing." --Kate Schatz, author of
Rad American Women A-Z
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Printed on Paige
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Each week we feature a book printed on Paige, our book-making machine. Featured books will range from fresh works from local authors to near-forgotten titles discovered in our extensive print-on-demand database.
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Double Chai Quilt:
Selected Poems 1980-2016
by Steve Rapp
$18.00
Print on Demand, paperback
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In
Hebrew, the word "chai" means "life." But the letters also
represent the number 18. For this reason, in Jewish culture, the number
18 (and its multiples) have special meaning. Prompted by a request from
his daughter, Steve Rapp has put together a collection of 108 (6 x 18)
poems written over the past 36 years.
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Remainders
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Remainders
are bargain books, new books at used-book prices. We have a limited
number of copies of these titles, so if you see something that you're
interested in, come in and check it out soon. To see more of our
Remainders section, visit our Remainders page.
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The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
$7.99, paperback
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Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, Man Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement.
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Gifted Hands:
America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery
by Seymour I. Schwartz
$9.99, hardcover (originally $27.95)
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In
this sweeping history of American surgical practice, renowned surgeon
Seymour I. Schwartz, MD, describes how surgery in this country advanced
from the comparatively crude practices of pioneering physicians to its
current level of preeminence.
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Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café
by Mollie Katzen
$9.99, hardcover (originally $29.95)
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Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café
offers tasty, protein-rich, meatless breakfasts to boost your energy
level and get you going first thing in the morning. Mollie Katzen
provides simple, mouth-watering, healthy recipes for every day of the
week.
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Recent Finds in the Used Department
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Featured used books go fast, so if any
titles interest you, stop in to check them out soon. We will hold the
book if you are the first caller to reserve it. To reserve a book, call
(617) 661-1515 and ask for our Used Department. We're also always
looking for books to buy. Learn about selling your used books, including textbooks, here.
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William Cameron Menzies:
The Shape of Films to Come
by James Curtis
Originally published by Pantheon in 2015
$20.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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The Great Clod:
Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia
by Gary Snyder
Originally published by Counterpoint in 2016
$13.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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with Gary Snyder's remarkable insights and briskly beautiful
descriptions, this collection adds to the major corpus of his work and
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon:
Old Tales from the North
by Kay Nielsen
Originally published by Taschen in 2015
$20.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition
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Step into a world of star-crossed lovers,
magical winds, and mischievous giants through some of the most exquisite
illustrations in publishing history. This gorgeous reprint revives the
most ambitious project of beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen.
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Upcoming Events & Notable Dates
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Loren Graham
Fri, Apr 22, 3PM
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Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at MIT, discusses Lysenko's Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia.
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Sun, Apr 24, 7PM
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The host of WAMU's The Diane Rehm Show discusses her deeply personal and moving memoir of loss, On My Own, in conversation with Robin Young of WBUR's Here & Now.
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At First Parish Church
$5 Tickets
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Mon, Apr 25, 7PM
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MIT Professors Berwick (a computer scientist) and Chomsky (a linguist) discuss their new book, Why Only Us: Language and Evolution.
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$5 Tickets
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The Harvard Square Book Circle
Mon, Apr 25, 7PM
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This month our in-store book club will discuss Helen Macdonald's award-winning book H Is for Hawk.
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Tues, Apr 26, 7PM
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NYU's Ann Neumann discusses her book The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America in conversation with journalist Katherine Stewart.
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Wed, Apr 27, 7PM
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Princeton research scholar Meg Jacobs discusses Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Thurs, Apr 28, 6:30PM
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Fat Mike, El Hefe, Eric Melvin, and Erik Sandin of punk band NOFX sign their book NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories.
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At Harvard Book Store
Ticketed (includes book)
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Fri, Apr 29, 3PM
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Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Meira Levinson discusses Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries.
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At Harvard Book Store
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Fri, Apr 29, 7PM
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her followup to The Hemingses of Monticello, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.
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Sat, Apr 30
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Join
us for exclusive merchandise, special displays of bookseller-recommend
books, cookies and treats, a very special "after hours" event with Kelly
Link and Samantha Hunt, and much more.
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