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Wednesday, May 22 at 7pm Join us for our annual reading with poets from Brookline’s Seasoned Voices Poetry Workshop as they prove that verse gets better with age. |
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Thursday, May 23 at 6pm Jim Gaffigan has written a hilarious book about parenting, being fat, and the overlapping middle of their Venn Diagram. No guarantees he’ll sign your Hot Pockets, though. Tickets for this event have sold out. At 5:30pm, a standby line will form at the Coolidge for unclaimed seats. Standby tickets may be purchased with cash only ($5 each). |
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Friday, May 24 at 7pm Anne Champion and Brian Sousa Reluctant Mistress and Almost Gone Two authors present their first works: Emerson College adjunct professor Anne Champion (Reluctant Mistress) and Brian Sousa (Almost Gone). Champion's collection of poetry explores love and the cruelties that chase it, grasping at the future by any means necessary. Sousa presents a collection of stories that spans four generations. Using various perspectives from a Portuguese immigrant family, Almost Gone presents a working-class tale of survival. |
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Saturday, May 25 at 7pm In this stunning piece of non-fiction, Todd McLeish tells us about narwhals, inserting fun facts that can be repeated at length in front of your co-workers. While a recurring character in Inuit and European legends, the narwhal is surprisingly one of the least studied animals. McLeish traveled widely to uncover its secrets, consulting folklorists, climatologists, historians, and biologists to explore the fascinating history—and future—of the unicorn of the Arctic seas. |
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Wednesday, May 29 at 7pm Michelle Tea & Ali Liebegott join forces to celebrate the release of their newest books. New from City Lights/Sister Spit, Ali Liebegott's Cha-Ching! is a tender, unforgettable story about being young and broke in America, and the conjoined hearts of love and addiction. Michelle Tea's debut YA novel from McSweeney's A Mermaid in Chelsea Creek is a modern-day fairytale with an unforgettable heroine. |
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Thursday, May 30 at 7pm Investigative reporter Tom Clavin tells the story of MLB's DiMaggio dynasty - Vince, Joe, and Dom - three brothers that rose from poverty into baseball superstardom. Affected by fame, Marilyn Monroe, and their love of the game, the DiMaggio brothers went through it all. From Fenway Park to Yankee Stadium, the story of the DiMaggios is a snapshot of American culture. |
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Friday, May 31 at 7pm This night of poetry contains work from Michael Lynch, who presents his collection Underlife and Portico, a collection of twenty poems that take ordinary objects and domestic scenes and underscores the darkness held within them. Nicole Terez Dutton presents If One of Us Should Fall, a sensational and sensory collection of poetry that explores myth and music. Erica Anzalone presents Samsara, a haunting collection that honestly looks at the body, its darkness and openness dancing together to make the self. |
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Saturday, June 1 at 7pm Boston University professor Ruha Benjamin explores the controversy behind stem cell research. In her new book, she examines the shifting relationship between science and society and the debate it inspires. Is it life-saving medicine or a bioethical nightmare? |
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Tuesday, June 4 at 7pm She’s back, and just in time for summer! The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice returns to sign her new cookbook, Fabulicious! On the Grill. This will be a signing only. |
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Wednesday, June 5 at 7pm In the summer of 1963, Allan Sherman’s “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” was the worldwide hit that marked the peak of Sherman’s fame. Join biographer Mark Cohen as he tells the story behind Allan Sherman. He will be joined by Rabbi Moshe Waldoks. |
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Friday, June 7 at 7pm Brookline-based Zephyr Press, specializing in literary translation, presents Eleanor Goodman, reading her translations of Chinese poet Wang Xiaoni, J. Kates, reading Russian poets Mikhail Aizenberg and Tatiana Shcherbina, and Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, reading German poet Zafer Senocak. |
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Tuesday, June 11 at 7pm We are ecstatic to bring Michael Reynolds (editor-in-chief, Europa Editions), Dennis Johnson (publisher and owner, Melville House), Jason Pinter (senior marketing manager, Grove/Atlantic) and more to Brookline Booksmith as part of International Crime Month. These leading independent publishers have joined forces to talk about a genre they love to read and publish: international crime fiction. |
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Wednesday, June 12 at 6pm Andrew Yancy has a human arm in his freezer. Not only that, the hand is frozen in a crass gesture. He acts on his hunch that the arm's owner's death via boating accident / shark attack was a murder (partially with the hopes of ditching his demoted gig as Health Inspector). Then things unfold in ways that only can in the Hiaasen universe. Join the South Floridian satirist The New York Times called "the Mark Twain of the crime novel" for his latest romp. Tickets are $5 each and go on sale 5/6. Get a free ticket to attend when you pre-order a copy of Bad Monkey. Call 617.566.6660 or visit brooklinebooksmith.com.tickets. |
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Thursday, June 13th at 7pm Primates tells the story of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas, three of the most renown scientists in the field of primate research and students of the great Louis Leakey. Jim Ottaviani's words are charmingly illustrated by Maris Wicks, resulting in an engaging and utterly factual tale of the scientific life, including the personal and professional highs and lows that accompany it. Join illustrator Maris Wicks as she discusses the process of creating a graphic novel. |
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Friday, June 14th at 7pm Bringing the freshest and finest voices to Boston. |
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Saturday, June 15th at 10:30am Do you love picture books? Join us in our children's section as our fine children's team reads stories aloud every third Saturday and last Sunday of the month. |
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Saturday, June 15th at 7pm Young Adult literature? Join us for a panel discussion with Gina Damico (Croak, Scorch), A. C. Gaughen (Scarlet) and Diana Renn (Tokyo Heist), moderated by Jamie Tan, Brookline Booksmith’s events director. |
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Monday, June 17th at 7pm What's laid off thirtysomething Anna going to do now: write a book about late bloomers (nah; someone already did)? "Reposition her disposition," as suggested by her lifecoach friend? Or just loom in the brain-fog of her longtime internet addiction? Then she finds filmmaker Taj on Craigslist and finds a mission in his project. Sort of. Acclaimed singer-songwriter Alina Simone wowed us with her biographical essays in You Must Go and Win, and she does it again with her sharp, uproarious debut novel. |
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Tuesday, June 18 at 6pm Stephen Apkon, founder and executive director of The Jacob Burns Film Center, visits the Coolidge Corner Theatre to share his new book. In The Age of the Image, Apkon draws on the history of literacy and the science of how storytelling affects the brain to transform the way we teach, create and communicate with one another.Tickets will be available for free starting June 3. To reserve them, please call us at 617.566.6660 or drop by the Booksmith. |
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Wednesday, June 19 at 7pm When Pandora’s brother-in-law comes to visit, she and her cycling-obsessed husband, Fletcher, are taken aback. The once slim Edison has ballooned, gaining hundreds of pounds. With his big breakfasts and boisterous personality, he changes the family dynamic and overstays his welcome. Fletcher gives Pandora a painfully life-changing ultimatum: kick out Edison or he will leave her. In this novel about fat, family, and control, Shriver uses her deft storytelling abilities to create a compelling work with no easy answers. |
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Friday, June 21 at 7pm Breakwater Reading Series Join us for a night of new stories, essays, and poems by MFA candidates from Emerson, BU, and UMass Boston. For more information, visit breakwaterreadingseries.blogspot.com. |
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Saturday, June 22nd at 7pm You didn't think we could do it, but we did—we teamed up with 826 to bring literary legends back from the dead. Our host Kurt Vonnegut will be in conversation with Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau and whoever else we can dig up (as portrayed by Boston comedy all-stars such as Rob Crean, Jenny Zigrino, Steve Macone, and Langston Kerman). Join us 6 feet under (in our downstairs Readers & Writers Room) at this benefit for 826 Boston, the youth tutoring and writing center in Egleston Square. |
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Monday, June 24 at 7pm Suzy Becker (All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat) had it all—a successful career, savings, great friends—but no baby. At the age of 39, she decided to go ahead and do it herself, resulting in a journey filled with fertility clinics and sperm donors, finding her true love along the way. |
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Wednesday, June 26 at 6pm Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell has evolved as a photographer. Starting with his intimate, black-and-white pictures of domestic objects, continuing on to his later work transforming rooms into a giant camera obscura, and now, exploring camera obscura with color and an almost painterly delight. He will be in conversation with Elizabeth Siegel, associate curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. Tickets are $5 each and go on sale 5/21. Get a free ticket to attend when you pre-order a copy of Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door. Call 617.566.6660 or visit brooklinebooksmith.com/tickets. |
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Thursday, June 27 at 7pm After his wife’s death in 1973, poet and activist Steve Abbott comes out of the closet and moves to San Francisco with his three-year-old daughter, Alysia. He throws himself into the vibrant poetry scene, trying to be a good father while being true to himself. After years of trial-and-error, life seems like it might be perfect... until the AIDS crisis hits. In this memoir, Alysia has written a moving legacy of both 1970’s and 80’s San Francisco and most importantly, her father. |
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Friday, June 28 at 7pm Leslie Anne Greene Carter slips into a manhole on vacation. The shock that no one realizes she's missing propels her to reassess everything she'd held dear: from her marriage (to which she's sacrificed much, including her relationship with her beloved gay brother), to her changed Atlanta social circle (now populated by her friends' Barbie-like second wives), to her mooching grown children. Escape to the South with us for an unforgettable, utterly funny tale of one woman's self-realization. |
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Saturday, June 29 at 7pm In an absorbing and evocative memoir, Kathleen Spivack tells of her time at Boston University studying under Robert Lowell, with classmates Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, and more. She will be in conversation with Brookline Poet Laureate Judith Steinbergh. |
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Sunday, June 30 at 10:30am Do you love picture books? Join us in our children’s section as our fine children’s team reads stories aloud every third Saturday and last Sunday of the month. |
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