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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, December 2nd at 4:00pm (Reading)
Tehila Lieberman &
Jenny Barber will read from recent work. Lieberman is author of
Venus in the Afternoon, a collection of short stories. Barber is author, most recently, of the poetry collection,
Given Away.
- Thursday, December 6th at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)
Join us in a group reading from a new collection,
The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, edited by
Joshua Corey &
G.C. Waldrep.
The Arcadia Project includes work by Bin Ramke, Forrest Gander, Eleni Sikelianos, Mei-mei Berssenbrugger, Eric Baus, Peter Gizzi, Rae Armantrout, Michelle Taransky, Heather Christle, Elizabeth Willis, Patrick Pritchett, Catherine Wagner, & many others—many of whom will be on hand for the reading!
- Friday, December 7th 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, December 9th at 3:00pm (Poetry reading)
Jan Conn will read from her new collection of poetry,
Edge Effects. Conn is author of seven previous collections of poetry, including
Botero’s Beautiful Horses &
Januar Rain: The Margaret Mee Poems. Conn’s work is included in
The Best Canadian Poetry in English Anthology, among other anthologies, & in many journals. She is a member of the renga group Yoko’s Dogs. She won the 2006 Malahat Review PK Page Founders’ Award Poetry Prize & a CBC Literary Award for poetry in 2003. She lives in Great Barrington, MA, & works on the ecology & evolution of insects that transmit pathogens to humans.
- Wednesday, December 12th at 4:30pm (Poetry reading)
Join Amherst College professors
John Drabkinski &
Christopher Dole in celebrating the publication of their new books. Drabinski, who teaches widely in the Caribbean & African-American intellectual traditions with special empahsis on francophone critical theory, is author of numerous articles & books. His newest one is
Levinas & the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other. Dole’s wide-ranging interests include medical, psychiatric & psychological anthropology, as well as the anthropology of religion, is author of the new
Healing Secular Life: Loss & Devotion in Modern Turkey.
- Saturday, December 15th at 2:00pm (Author Signing)
Patricia Holland will sign copies of a new book she co-wrote with William Robinson,
North Amherst & Cushman. Part of the “Images of America” series, Holland & Robinson’s new book has over 200 images of photographs, postcards & a map, charting the history of North Amherst.