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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.)
- Monday, September 17th at 7:00pm (Reading & book launch party)
Local author
Gina Apostol will read from her new novel,
Gun Dealers’ Daughter. Apostol won the Philippine National Book Award for her first two novels,
Bibliolepsy &
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. Her stories have appeared in the
Massachusetts Review, the
Gettysburg Review, &
Thirdest World, among other publications. Gary Shteyngart, author of
Absurdistan &
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, said of
Gun Dealers’ Daughter that “it is just what literature needed. Fresh, funny, irreverent, it won me over immediately.”
- Friday, September 21st 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.
- Sunday, September 23rd at 3:00pm(Poetry reading)
jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the
Jones Library, Amherst, will feature poets
Zach Savich &
Mike Young. For more information go to
jubilat/Jones Reading Series on Facebook.
- Thursday, September 27th at 7:00pm (Reading & book launch party)
Amherst College student
Lindsay Stern will read from her new novella,
Town of Shadows. Paul Legault, author of
The Emily Dickinson Reader, said of Stern’s book, “The debut of a force like Lindsay Stern’s should be greeted by a bureaucratic & naked applause.”
- Friday, September 28th at 7:00pm (Performance)
Nathan Larson &
Bill Peters will read from their new books. Peters has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council & the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for his fiction. As an editor & journalist, he co-produced four arts & entertainment publications for the
Springfield Republican daily newspaper. He is now an editor for
The New York Times News Service.
Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality his first book. Larson is best known as an award-winning film music composer, having created the scores for over thirty movies, such as
Boys Don’t Cry,
Dirty Pretty Things, &
Margin Call. His highly acclaimed debut novel,
The Dewey Decimal System, was published in the spring of 2011, followied by
The Nervous System. In the ’90s, he was the lead guitarist for the influential progpunk outfit Shudder to Think.