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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.)
- Tuesday, November 5th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)
Join University of Massachusetts professor
Emily Lordi in celebrating the publication of her first book,
Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers & African American Literature. Lordi’s new book reveals aesthetic connections between the literary works of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, Nikki Giovanni, & Linda Susan Jackson & the vocal art of several iconic women singers: Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, & Etta James.
- Friday November 8th at 4:00pm (Book launch party)
Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by
Anna Taylor —
Epic Lives & Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1500. Taylor, who teaches history here at the University of Massachusetts, focuses on Latin epic verse saints’ lives in their medieval historical contexts.
- Sunday November 10th at 4:00pm(Reading)
Adam Berlin, who grew up in Amherst, will read from his new novel,
The Number of Missing. Berlin is author of three earlier novels—
Headlock;
Belmondo Style, which won the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award; &
Both Members of the Club, which won the 2012 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize. He teaches writing at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City & co edits
J Journal: New Writing on Justice.
- Thursday, November 14th at 7:00pm (Talk)
Stephen Apkon will talk at the
Amherst Cinema, Amherst, about his new book,
The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens. Apkon is founder & executive director of the Jacob Burns Film Center & the Media Arts Lab, a nonprofit film & education center in Pleasantville, New York. Admission to the talk requires tickets—which are free. For more information go to the
Amherst Cinema website.
- Sunday, November 17th at 3:00pm (Poetry reading)
jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the
Jones Library, Amherst. The reading will feature poets
Lucy Ives &
William D. Waltz, & will feature the publisher
slope editions. Meet the poets at an informal Q & A session that will follow the reading. For more information go to
jubilat/Jones Reading Series on Facebook.
- Wednesday, November 20th at 5:00pm(A Conversation)
A conversation about Du Bois & the social movements of his time at the
University Museum of Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, with
Nick Bromell,
Barbara Krauthamer,
Preston Smith, & others. For more information: the
Museums 10 website.
- Friday, November 22nd at 7:00pm(Dramatic presentation)
In memory of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, “Project Unspeakable”, a play by Court Dorsey & associates, inspired by James Douglass’s
JFK & the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why it Matters, will be performed at the
Leverett Elementary School by neighbors in Leverett, Amherst & surrounding towns. The play examines the meaning & circumstances of the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, & Robert F. Kennedy. For more information:
Project Unspeakable.