• Tuesday, December 2nd at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Due to snow, canceled until Tuesday the 12th Come celebrate the publication of Íde O'Carroll’s new book, Thirty Years of Change Through Women’s Eyes: Ireland, 1993-2023.   O'Carroll is also author of Models for Movers: Irish Women’s Emigration to America & Irish Transatlantics, 1980-2015.   She is an Irish-born social researcher, author & former teacher.   As a consultant researcher, she worked for many years on some of the key social change issues in Ireland, Europe & the USA.   In 2014, she wound up her consultancy firm to concentrate on writing & later taught part-time at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• Wednesday, December 3rd at 4:30pm (Book launch & conversation)

Come for a book launch & talk about Ingrid Nelson’s Medieval Media: Bodies, Networks, Chaucer as part of the Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry’s Wednesday Salon at the Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum, 197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst.   Nelson, who teaches in the English Department at Amherst College, is also author of Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre & Practice in Later Medieval England.   For more information, see here.

• Thursday, December 4th at 6:00pm (Reading)

Jeff Parker will read as part of the UMass Visiting Writer Series at the Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst.   He is the author of several books including Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal, the novel Ovenman & the short story collection & The Taste of Penny.   His newest novella, “G v. P,” was published in the collection Proper Imposters.   The co-founder & director of the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, Parker is a professor of English at UMass Amherst & teaches prose in the MFA Program.   For more information, see here.

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

Jeanne Bonner will read from her translation, This Darkness Will Never End, a short story collection written in Italian by Hungarian-born writer Edith Bruck at the Forbes Library, 20 West Street, Northampton.   Bruck has written more than twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, & poetry, many of which reflect her life-long commitment to Holocaust testimony, including Who Loves You Like This.   She has twice been nominated for the Italian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, & her books have been translated into many languages including English, French, German, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, & Hebrew.   Bonner is a writer, editor & literary translator.   Her essays & reporting have been published by the New York Times, Boston Globe, & American Scholar, among others.   She was a 2022 NEA literature fellow in translation.   For more information, see here.

• Tuesday, December 9th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Come celebrate the publication of Íde O'Carroll’s new book, Thirty Years of Change Through Women’s Eyes: Ireland, 1993-2023.   O'Carroll is also author of Models for Movers: Irish Women’s Emigration to America & Irish Transatlantics, 1980-2015.   She is an Irish-born social researcher, author & former teacher.   As a consultant researcher, she worked for many years on some of the key social change issues in Ireland, Europe & the USA.   In 2014, she wound up her consultancy firm to concentrate on writing & later taught part-time at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• Wednesday, December 10th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by Elva Orozco Mendoza, The Maternal Contract: A Subaltern Response to Extreme Violence in the Americas.   Orozco Mendoza holds a Ph.D. in political science, with a specialization in political theory, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.   She is an assistant professor of political science & women & gender studies at the University of Connecticut.

• Tuesday, December 16th at 5:00pm (Talk)

Introduced by the former Director of the UMass Civic Initiative Mike Hannahan, Robert Blaemire will talk about his new book, Unforced Errors: 15 Bad Decisions That Changed American History, in the UMass Downtown Space, 108. No. Pleasant Street, Amherst.   Blaemire has been a participant in politics all of his adult life.   He worked for Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) for many years.   He then founded The Committee for American Principles in 1980, seeking to combat the growing role & influence of the New Right in political campaigns.  Besides his new book, Blaemire is author of Birch Bayh: Making a Difference.

• Thursday, December 18th at 4:00pm-9:00pm (Town Wide Festival)

Downtown Amherst Sip'n'Stroll  Featuring a festive drink from The Mocktail Club at Amherst Books, with town-wide horse-drawn carriage rides, boutique & unique independent retail specials, prix-fixe meals at your favorite local restaurants, & POP-UP Makers & Artisans Market at the Inn on Boltwood Ballroom.