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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, May 2nd at 7:00pm (Reading)
Local author
Mira Bartok will talk at the
Leverett Library about
The Memory Palace, her breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, & the capacity for forgiveness among family.
The Memory Palace was an ALA Notable Book & winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. For more information,
Leverett Library.
- Friday, May 4th at 7:30pm(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.
- Thursday, May 10th at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)
Jorie Graham &
Sophie Cabot Black will read. Graham will read from her new book of poems,
Place. She is the Boylston Professor of Poetry at Harvard & is author of numerous collections of poetry, including
Sea Change,
Never,
Swarm, &
The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Black, whose poems have appeared frequently in the
New Yorker &
The Atlantic, is author of two collections of poetry,
The Misunderstanding of Nature &
The Descent. Presented in conjunction with the Harvard Club of Western Massachusetts & the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard.
- Wednesday, May 30th at 7:00pm (Reading)
Local author
Mira Bartok will talk at the
Sunderland Public Library about
The Memory Palace, her breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, & the capacity for forgiveness among family.
The Memory Palace was an ALA Notable Book & winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.