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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.)
- Sunday, April 1st at 3:00pm (Poetry reading)
jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the
Jones Library, Amherst, will feature poets
John Yau,
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, &
Kevin Gonzalez. For more information go to
jubilat/Jones Reading Series on Facebook.
- Wednesday, April 4th at 8:00pm (Poetry reading)
Peter Gizzi will read in
Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather, Amherst College from recent work. Gizzi, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts here in Amherst, is an author of 5 volumes of poetry, including
Artificial Heart;
The Outernationale; &, most recently,
Threshold Songs—which Don Share, writing in the
Boston Globe, called one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2011. Sponsored by the
Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
- Friday, April 6th 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.
- Saturday, April 14th — (Literary Festival)
12th Annual Juniper Literary Festival: New Writers / New WritingAll events will be at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center
11:30 A.M. Journal & Book Fair Continues
12:00pm READING: Christopher DeWeese, Corwin Ericson, Julia Holmes, & Paul Legault
1:15pm ROUNDTABLES:
—Nuts & Bolts: From Manuscript to Book
moderated by Zach Savich
—Digital Hybrids: How New Media Shape New Writing
moderated by Blake Butler
2:30pm ROUNDTABLES:
—Editors’s Reading:
featuring bateau, Conjunctions, jubilat, & Noƶ Journal
—Book/Art: The Book As Collaborative Form
moderated by Guy Pettit
3:45pm READING:
Blake Butler, Macgregor Card, Julia Cohen, & Anna Joy Springer
7:00pm Journal & Book Fair Reopens
7:30pm KEYNOTE READING: James Tate
- Tuesday, April 17th at 5:00pm (Reading)
Jens Lapidus, a prominent Swedish criminal defense lawyer & author, will read in
Herter Hall Room 601, University of Massachusetts in Amherst from
Easy Money, the first volume of his Stockholm Noir Trilogy to be translated into English. His fast-paced thriller has been compared to James Ellroy & Dennis Lehane.
- Wednesday, April 18th at 8:00pm (Reading / Book signing)
John Sayles will read at the
Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather, Amherst College, from his most recent novel,
A Moment in the Sun. Sayles is a prolific author, screenplay writer & film director. His books include the novel,
Union Dues & short story collection,
The Anarchists’ Convention. His film credits include,
Matewan,
The Brother from Another Planet,
The Return of the Secacus Seven, &
Honeydripper. His fiction has won the O. Henry Award & has been nominated for a National Book Award & the National Book Critics Circle Award. His films have repeatedly won best independent film awards, best director awards, & best screenplay awards. See our listing for April 19th @ 7:00pm.
- Thursday, April 19th at 7:00pm (Movie / Talk)
John Sayles will appear at a showing of
Amigo, his 17th feature film, at the
Amherst Cinema. For more information see the listing at
Amherst Cinema. Also, see our listing for April 18th @ 8:00pm.
- Friday, April 20th 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, April 24th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)
Join University of Massachusetts professor
Bruce Baird in celebrating the publication of his new book,
Hijikata Tatsumi & Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits. A contemporary dance form—or unform—Butoh typically involves playful & grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, & is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion, with or without an audience. Baird teaches Japanese theatre, cinema, philosophy, & popular culture in Asian Languages & Literatures.
- Wednesday, April 25th at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)
Area poet
Emily Pettit will read at the
Sunderland Public Library from her new collection of poetry,
Goat in the Snow. Pettit, who teaches at Flying Object, is an an editor for notnostrums & Factory Hollow Press. Pettit’s “kindness,” John Ashbery writes of her new book, “is always ahead of us, anticipating the problems we will or won’t run into, & we always end up in a different, precise place than the one we started out from....
Goat in the Snow is multicolored, ever-changing, a delight to try to clasp.”
- Monday, April 30th at 7:00pm(Reading)
Bonnie Nadzam will read from her new book,
Lamb. Winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize,
Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage & the death of his father. The
Boston Globe wrote, “Only an immensely promising young writer could bestow such grace on such troubled characters.”