• Tuesday, December 4th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by Amherst College professor Sara Brenneis—Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015.   By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, Brenneis provides a historical, critical, & chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work.

• Wednesday, December 5th at 7:00pm (Readings)

Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop Presents A Night of Nonfiction   Celia Jefferies, Leslie Eaton Clark, John D. Bidwell, Kris Holloway, & Marion VanArsdell will read from recent work.   Jeffries’ work has appeared in numerous newspapers & literary magazines including Westview, Solsticelitmag, & Puerto del Sol.   She recently finished a novel & is currently working on a memoir.   Clark is author of George Bronson Rea, Propagandist: The Life & Times of a Mercenary Journalist.   Her coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake won an award for “Best-On-the-Spot” News Coverage.   Holloway is author & Bidwell, editor, of the wonderful memoir, Monique & the Mango Rains: Two years with a Midwife in Mali.   VanArsdell, who taught for years in the Northampton public school system, is author of I Teached Him to Talk: Stories of Children with Autism.   For more information go to the Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop’s upcoming events page.

• Thursday, December 6th at 8:00pm (Reading)

Gina Apostol will read in Memorial Hall, UMass, Amherst, from her new novel, Insurrecto.   Apostol is author of the much-acclaimed, Gun Dealers’ Daughter, which won the PEN/Open Book Award.   For more information, see the UMass MFA’s events calendar

• Tuesday, December 11th at 12:00 noon - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Conversation)

Amherst Books Noontime Book Conversation Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion about Colson Whitehead’s book The Intuitionist. — The group usually meets on the second Tuesday of every month from 12:00 noon until 1:00pm & has no fixed members (although quite a few regulars).   If you can, purchase your copy from Amherst Books with a 10% discount.   Feel free to bring your lunch; water will be provided.   (Please note: January’s book will be Dorothy Baker’s Cassandra at the Wedding.)

• Tuesday, December 11th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Help us join Hampshire College philosophy professor Christoph Cox in celebrating the publication of his new book, Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, & Metaphysics.   Cox is also author of Nietzsche: Naturalism & InAudio Culture, Revised Edition: Readings in Modern Music terpretation & co-editor, with his colleague Dan Warner, of Audio Culture, Revised Edition: Readings in Modern Music.

• Wednesday, December 12th at 7:00pm (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.

• Thursday, December 13th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Join UMass professor Michael Ash in celebrating the publication of a new book by him & Francisco Louçã—Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder & the System that Cause Crisis.   Ash & Louçã challenge pervading narratives of the financial crisis to argue that economic collapse is ingrained in the shadow networks of finance.

• Thursday, December 13th at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)

Ukrainian poet, essayist & translator, Yurii Andrukhovych will read at Hampshire College, Amherst.