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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.)
- Friday, November 2nd 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.
- Tuesday, November 6th at 7:00pm (Reading)
Join us in celebrating the publication of
Lynn Margulis: The Life & Legacy of a Scientific Rebel, edited by son & collaborator,
Dorion Sagan. Among contributors, friends & colleagues,
Joanna Bybee,
Emily Case,
Michael J. Chapman,
Michael F. Dolan,
Betsey Dexter Dyer,
Ruth Owen Jones,
David Lenson, &
James MacAllister will talk. Other contributors to the volume—which ranges from global politics to evolutionary theory to the role of women in science—include
James Lovelock,
Denis Noble,
William Irwin Thompson, &
Andre Khalil.
- Monday, November 12th at 6:00pm (Book launch party)
Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by Amherst resident
Christine Benvenuto. In her new memoir,
Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, & Moving On, Benvenuto talks about the effect on her & her family when her long-time husband decided to change his gender. Part memoir, part voyeur’s look into a marriage,
Sex Changes is a journey through the end of a marriage & out the other side. Benvenuto is author of fiction, essays, & reviews that have appeared in many publications, including
The Village Voice, the
San Francisco Chronicle,
Tikkun & the
Valley Advocate. Her first book was
Shiksa: The Gentile Woman in the Jewish World.
- Tuesday, November 13th at 8:00pm (Talk)
Amherst resident
Chris Benfey will read from his new memoir,
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, & Survival. Benfey, who teaches at Mt. Holyoke College, is author of numerous books including
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, & the Opening of Old Japan; &
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, & Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade. Co-sponsored by the
Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
- Friday, November 16th at 7:30pm (Reading)
CANCELED
“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.
- Sunday, November 18th at 3:00 P.M.(Poetry reading)
jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the
Jones Library, Amherst, will feature poets
John Coletti,
Amanda Nadelberg,
Emily Toder &
Noelle Kocot. For more information go to
jubilat/Jones Reading Series on Facebook.
- Thursday, November 29th at 7:00pm (Reading & launch party)
Please join poetry editor
John Hennessy, University of Massachusetts professor
Stephen Clingman
& special guests, including U.S. Poet Laureate
Richard Wilbur, as they celebrate the launch of Issue #4 of
The Common. The issue includes a chapter from
Robert Bagg’s new biography of Wilbur, as well as a 90-page anthology of new poetry from South Africa guest-edited by one of that country's foremost poets & critics, Kelwyn Sol. The anthology ranges from work by internationally established poets like Ingrid de Kok, Robert Berold, Yvette Christianse, Karen Press, & Makhozazana Xaba—to emerging poets like Katharine Kilalea, Nadine Botha, Khulile Nxumalo, & Genna Gardini. This will be the first such anthology to be printed in the U. S. since
The Lava of This Land: South African Poetry 1970-1996 edited nearly twenty years ago by
The Common contributor, Denis Hirson.
- Friday, November 30th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)
Tom Fels will read from his new book,
Buying the Farm: Peace & War on a Sixties Commune. Fels is an independent curator & writer specializing in American culture, photography & art. He is author of numerous catalogs, articles & books including,
Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies & Beyond.