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Events

< March 2012 >

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.

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POSTPONED Author, playwright & performance artist Kate Bornstein will talk at the Robert Crown Center, Hampshire College in Amherst in the first Annual Presidential Gender Justice Lecture.   Bornstein is author of, among other works, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women & the Rest of Us, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely, & Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws.  
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David Bezmozgis will read from his recent work.   Bezmozgis is an author & filmmaker.   His books include a collection of short stories, Natasha & Other Stories; & a novel, The Free World, which has been shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize & for the Governor General’s Awards.   Sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
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“Live Lit”   Students in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts will read from their recent work.   Evenings usually include a mix of poetry & fiction.
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Meet former Senator & Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern & U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’s 3rd congressional district, Jim McGovern.   Senator McGovern will sign copies of his new book, What it Means to be a Democrat.   For more information, go to this Facebook page.
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Leverett resident Roger King will read from his new novel, Love and Fatigue in America.   King is author of four novels, all of which draw on his experiences working, mostly for the United Nations, in Africa & Asia.   The New York Times called his last book, A Girl from Zanzibar, “a brilliantly prescient novel,” & O Magazine said “a steady beat of danger pursues the adventurous, money-hungry heroine...from shifty banking to arms dealing.” The new, autobiographical novel, records an Englishman’s decade-long journey through his newly adopted country in the company of a mystifying illness and a charismatic dog.
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"Anne Halley Poetry Prize Reading"   Philip Metres, winner of the 8th annual Anne Halley Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Massachussetts Review, will read in the University Museum of Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts.    

The Anne Halley Poetry Prize is named in memorial for Anne Halley, to honor her 25 years of work as poetry co-editor of the Massachusetts Review as well as her work as a poet & writer.   Her last collection of poetry, Rumors of the Turning Wheel, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2003.

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Brenda Coultas & Sunetra Gupta will read from recent work in Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts.   Coultas is author of The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations & Explanations, & A Handmade Museum, which won the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America.   Gupta is author of five novels, including most recently, So Good in Black.   Born in Calcutta, she wrote her first works of fiction in Bengali & is an accomplished translator of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.   Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.
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“Live Lit”   Students in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts will read from their recent work.   Evenings usually include a mix of poetry & fiction.

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