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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.
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Tuesday, March 6th at 7:00 P.M. (Talk/Performance)
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.
- Thursday, March 8th at 8:00 P.M. (Reading)
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.
- Friday, March 9th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
“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.
- Saturday, March 24th 4:00—5:30 P.M.(Book signing)
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.
- Tuesday, March 27th at 7:00 P.M. (Reading)
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.
- Wednesday, March 28th at 7:30 P.M.
"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.
- Friday, March 30th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
“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.