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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.)
- Wednesday, March 6th at 7:00pm(Reading)
Amherst resident
Lane Heymont will read from his new book,
The Freedman & The Pharaoh's Staff. Set in the Reconstruction Era, this genre-bending historical fiction fantasy follows two former slaves in a dangerous & gripping time travel adventure battling Hitler & the Ku Klux Klan for possession of an ancient Pharaoh’s staff. A strong advocate for diversity, Heymont set out to address the lack of minority characters in the fantasy genre by introducing readers to a diverse palette of characters, all torn between encrusted beliefs, self-hatred, fear, & the possibility of freedom & redemption & human dignity.
- Thursday, March 14th at 8:00pm(Reading)
Lysley Tenorio will read from his new collection of stories,
Monstress, at the
University Club, University of Massachusetts, as part of the
University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series. Tenorio’s stories have appeared in
The Atlantic,
Ploughshares,
Manoa, &
The Best New American Voices &
Pushcart Prize anthologies.
- Thursday, March 28th at 8:00pm(Poetry reading)
Clark Coolidge will read at
Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts, as part of the
University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series. Coolidge is author of over 20 volumes of poetry. His newest books are
88 Sonnets & the immense, long-awaited
A Book Beginning What & Ending Away. Often associated with the Language School, his experience as a jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dal, Jack Kerouac & movies, makes him, in poet Peter Gizzi’s words, “a one-man avant-garde.”