Indies First: Small Business Saturday
Local authors will be joining us throughout the day to recommend books to our customers!
DateNov
30
Saturday
November 30, 2013 10:00 AM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Small Business Saturday—the Saturday after Thanksgiving—is a day to rally people to shop at local businesses. And this year local authors are joining the celebration with the Indies First movement.
Join us at Harvard Book Store on Saturday, November 30, when local authors join the Harvard Book Store staff to recommend books to our customers—and perhaps sign a few copies of their own books! We'll be hosting novelists, scholars, kids/YA authors, and more.
The origin of "Indies First"
"Hello, hello, you gorgeous book nerds." So began acclaimed author Sherman Alexie's letter to fellow authors this fall, encouraging them to join a movement called Indies First. On Small Business Saturday local authors will become superheroes for their independent bookstores.
"Here's the plan: We book nerds will become booksellers. We will make recommendations. We will practice nepotism and urge readers to buy multiple copies of our friends' books. Maybe you'll sign and sell books of your own in the process. I think the collective results could be mind-boggling (maybe even world-changing)."
Read Alexie's complete letter here.
Many of our favorite local authors heard the call! Join us, and thanks for shopping at Harvard Book Store.
UPDATE: Check out photos from Indies First at Harvard Book Store, and read on for some of what the authors were recommending on Small Business Saturday.
Look for our "Indies First" authors wearing "Ask Me for Recommendations" nametags on Small Business Saturday!
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Clea Simon recommends...
E.J. Graff recommends...
Gail Mazur recommends...
- Black Stars: Poems
- Maus I
- Maus II
- Music in and on the Air
- Singing School
- The Woman Upstairs
- The Professor's House
- The Age of Wonder
- Holding on Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
Gwen Jensen recommends...
John Burt recommends...
- Absalom, Absalom
- Roll, Jordon, Roll
- Life and Fate
- Lib. of America Abraham Lincoln
- All the King’s Men
Katherine Powers recommends...
- Ride a Cock Horse
- Midnight Choir
- The Rage
- At Swim-Two-Birds
- The Poor Mouth
- The Third Policeman
- The Dog of the South
- Gringos
- Masters of Atlantis
- Norwood
- True Grit
- Escape Velocity
- Collected Stories (J. F. Powers)
- Morte D'Urban
- Wheat that Springeth Green
- Excellent Women
- Life After Life
- Someone
- For the Republic (Politics)
- Modern Predicament (Essays)
- What Are Intellectuals Good For (Essays)
- Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Kelly Link recommends...
- I Capture the Castle
- Duplex
- Mr. Fox
- The Black Path
- Venetia
- Shaman
- Coldest Girl in Coldtown
- The Perilous Gard
- The Man Who Ate Everything
Kim McLarin recommends...
- The Fire Next Time
- Another Country
- The Quiet American
- All About Love
- Purple Hibiscus
- Gathering of Waters
Margot Livesey recommends...
- Archangel
- Lookaway, Lookaway
- The Virgins
- The Realm of Lost Chances
- Bobcat
- Life after Life (Atkinson)
- Life after Life (McCorkle)
- Isle of Youth: Stories
Maria Tatar recommends...
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- The Lowland
- The Collaboration
- Book of Ages
- The Metaphysical Dog
- Far Far Away
Megan Marshall recommends...
- The Dickinsons of Amherst
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
- Out of Sheer Rage
- At Large and At Small
- Ex Libris
- The Mind-Body Problem
- Julia Child: A Life
- Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
- The Long Winter
- Carry Me Home
Priscilla Johnson McMillan recommends...
- Fellow Travelers
- Watergate
- The Wings of the Dove
- The Moviegoer
- Embracing Defeat
- Cultures of War
- Racing the Enemy
- Lessons of Disaster
- The Color of Truth
- The Killing of Crazy Horse
Randall Kennedy recommends...
Steve Yarbrough recommends...
Susan Goodman recommends...
Sven Birkerts recommends...
- The Infatuations
- The Flamethrowers
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Life after Life (McCorkle)
- The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
- The Sea
- Out Stealing Horses
- Austerlitz
- Vertigo
- By Night in Chile
- Stoner
- Disgrace
- The Moviegoer
- The Loser
- Concrete
- The Mezzanine
- My Struggle
- Selected Poems, 1954-1986 (Transtromer)
- Great Enigma
- Deleted World
- Collected Poems (Cavafy)
- Collected Poems, 1956-1998 (Herbert)
- Eternal Enemies
- Unseen Hand
- The Broken Estate
- Pulphead
- Blue Arabesque
- Camera Lucida
- Mythologies
- Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
- Alibis: Essays
- Unfathomeable City
- Faraway Nearby
- Field Guide to Getting Lost
- Pilgrim Hawk (Remainder)
Tui Sutherland recommends...
- Journey
- Flotsam
- When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
- Jeremy Draws a Monster
- Dragon Dancing, illustrated by Pierr Morgan
- Walk Two Moons
- When You Reach Me
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Dealing with Dragons
- The Thief
- The Queen of Attolia
- The King of Attolia
- Conspiracy of Kings
- Storm: Dogs of the Drowned City, Book 1
- Eleanor and Park
Ursula deYoung recommends..
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Parade’s End
- Glastonbury Romance
- Fountain Overflows
- The King Must Die
Walter Johnson recommends...
- The Known World
- Kindred
- Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, vol 1
- Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, vol 2
- The Black Jacobins
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On November 30, 2013, American Express Card Members can get a one-time $10 statement credit for spending $10 or more in a single, in-store transaction at a qualifying small business location (like us!).
Card Members must register an eligible American Express Card and use that Card to redeem this offer. Registration is limited. Register here. Go to Offer Terms for full details.
Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 2 minutes
As you exit the station, reverse your direction and walk east along Mass. Ave. in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Cross Dunster St. and proceed along Mass. Ave for three more blocks. You will pass Au Bon Pain, JP Licks, and TD Bank. Harvard Book Store is located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton St.
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