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Events
Events listed in white are at the bookshop; events listed in yellow are elsewhere.
Unless noted otherwise all events are free & open to the public.
(Click on a picture or a title to check our inventory or to purchase.)
- Thursday, June 14th at 7:00pm (Reading & book signing)
Local novelist
John Katzenbach will read from his latest thriller,
What Comes Next. Katzenbach is the author of nearly a dozen novels, including
The Analyst;
The Wrong Man, which was made into a feature film in France last year;
Hart’s War, made into a movie starring Bruce Willis; &
Just Cause, also made into a movie—starring Sean Connery & Laurence Fishburne. Many of Katzenbach’s novels—including
What Comes Next—are set in an Amherst-like town.
- Saturday, June 16th at 7:00pm (Reading)
BLOOMSDAY! “CALLING ALL DOWNS. CALLING ALL DOWNS TO DAYNE. ARRAY! SURRECTION!
EIREWEEKER TO THE WOHLD BLUDYN WORLD. TASS, PATT STAF, WOFF, HAVV,
BLUVV, AND RUTTER. THE SMOG IS LOFTING. WE HAVE HIGHEST GRATIFICATIONS
IN ANNOUNCING GENGHIS IS GHOON FOR YOU.”
Join us for a reading from
James Joyce’s
Finnegans Wake by
Peggy O'Brien,
Sid Feshbach &
Nat Herold.
Refreshments: “all gianed in with the eatmost shoviality.”
Literacy not necessary. “Lotus spray” together.
- Sunday, June 24th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Mark Doty &
Leni Zumas will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Open to the public! Suggested donation $5-10.
Juniper Summer Writing Institute
- Monday, June 25th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Noy Holland &
Matthea Harvey will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Open to the public! Suggested donation $5-10.
Juniper Summer Writing Institute
- Tuesday, June 26th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Amy Hempel &
Matthew Zapruder will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Open to the public! Suggested donation $5-10.
Juniper Summer Writing Institute
- Wednesday, June 27th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Joseph Cardinale,
Timothy Donnelly &
Betsy Wheeler will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Open to the public! Suggested donation $5-10.
Juniper Summer Writing Institute
- Thursday, June 28th 7:30pm (Reading)
Heather Christle &
Paul Lisicky will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Open to the public! Suggested donation $5-10.
Juniper Summer Writing Institute
- Friday, June 29th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Rikki Ducornet &
Charles D’Ambrosio will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Open to the public! Suggested donation $5-10.
Juniper Summer Writing Institute
- Saturday, June 30th at 7:30pm (Book launch party)
James Tate &
Dara Wier will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Open to the public! (Suggested donation $5-10.)
Juniper Summer Writing Institute