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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.
- Monday, Februrary 4th at 4:30pm (Talk)
Hannah Pollin-Galay will talk about her new book,
Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, & Holocaust Testimony, at the
Institute for Holocaust, Genoicide & Memory Studies, UMass, 758 No. Pleasant Street, Amherst. She will be joined by
Carolyn Dean,
Justin Cammy, &
James Young. Pollin-Galay is senior lecturer in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University, where she teaches on Yiddish, oral narrative, & memory. For more information, see the
Institute for Holocaust, Genoicide & Memory Studies website.
- Tuesday, Februrary 5th at 5:00pm (Talk)
Harvard professor
Daniel Ziblatt will talk about the recent book,
How Democracies Die, which he co-wrote with Steven Levitsky, at the
Campus Center Auditorium, UMass, Amherst, as part of the Diversity Matters all-day Sympoisum on “Understanding the Forces that Drive Us Apart: A Symposium on Polarization.” For more information, see the
Symposium Schedule.
- Wednesday, February 6th at 8:00pm (Poetry reading)
Phillip Williams will read from his new collection of poetry,
Thief in the Interior. Williams is also author of the chapbooks
Bruised Gospels, &
Burn. He is winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poetry has appeared in
Callaloo,
Kenyon Review Online,
The Southern Review, & others. Co-sponsored by the
Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
- Thursday, February 7th at 4:30pm (Book launch party)
Join Amherst College professor
Hannah Holleman in celebrating the publication of her new book,
Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism Environmental Politics & the Injustice of Green Capitalism. Holleman works in the areas of social theory, environmental sociology, environmental studies, political economy, & social movements. Her new book is a profound reinterpretation of both the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains & its relevance for today.
- Thursday, Februrary 7th at 8:00pm (Reading)
UMass professor
Jordy Rosenberg will read in the
Great Hall, Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst, from his debut novel,
Confessions of the Fox, as part of the UMass Visiting Writers series. The novel was a
New York Times Editor’s Choice selection & was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. For more information, see the
UMass MFA’s events calendar
- Sunday, February 10th at 3:00pm (Poetry reading)
jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the
Jones Library, Amherst.
Justin Jamail &
Kelin Loe will read. Meet the poets at an informal Q & A session that follows the reading.
- Tuesday, February 12th at 12:00 noon - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Conversation)
Noontime Book Conversation POSTPONED until February 26th The group will feature Diana Peele leading a discussion of Carson McCullers’
The Member of the Wedding. Meeting ordinarily on the second Tuesday of every month from 12:00pm until 1:00pm, the group has no fixed members (although quite a few regulars). Readers are urged to nominate a book to be read, especially if they are willing to lead the discussion. We focus on fiction & drama with occasional foray into the graphic novel. We limit the length of our selections to about 200 pages, although this is a guideline rather than a fixed rule. We believe in the joy of re-reading, so some of our selections are works that many have already read at least once. The noontime book group is under the general oversight of Michael Greenebaum (mlgreenebaum33@gmail.com) who selects the books & leads the discussions. He is happy to hear from those with ideas or questions. Amherst Books offers a 10% discount on the month’s book for those who plan to join the group.
- Tuesday, February 12th at 4:30pm (Book launch party)
POSTPONED until February 26th Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by
Adam Colman —
Drugs & the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Colman, who teaches in the English Department at UMass here in Amherst, is also author of the recently published,
New Uses for Failure: Ben Lerner’s 10:04.
- Wednesday, February 13th at 4:00pm (Book launch party)
POSTPONED until April 10th Join UMass Amherst professor
Anne Broadbridge in celebrating the publication of her new book,
Women & the Making of the Mongol Empire . The book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan (commonly known as Genghis Khan) & his conquests & empire.
- Thursday, February 14th 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, February 21st at 4:00pm (Talk)
Nate Chinen will talk about his new book,
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, at the
Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Robert Frost Library, Amherst College.
- Thursday, February 21st at 5:00pm (Talk)
Thomas Wickman will talk about his new book,
Snowshoe Country: An Environmental & Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast in
Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski 107, Amherst College.
- Thursday, February 21st at 8:00pm (Reading)
Kevin Killian will read from his latest book,
Fascination: Memoirs, in the
Great Hall, Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst, as part of the UMass MFA Visiting Writers Series. Killian is a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, & art writer. Recent books include the poetry collections
Tony Greene Era &
Tweaky Village. He is the coauthor of
Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer & the San Francisco Renaissance. With Dodie Bellamy, he coedited
Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing, 1977-1997. For more information, see the
UMass MFA’s events calendar
- Friday, February 22th 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.
- Saturday, February 23rd at 4:00pm (Talk)
Katie Watson, author of
Scarlet A: the Ethics, Law, & Politics of Ordinary Abortion, will talk at the
Red Barn, Hampshire College, Amherst, as part of the Abortion Rights Fund’s annual Roe Event. Watson teaches teaches bioethics, medical humanities, & constitutional law at Northwestern University & is Bioethics Advisor to the Medical Council of Planned Parenthood & Senior Counsel for the ACLU’s Women’s & Reproductive Rights Project. For more information, go to ARF’s
website.
- Tuesday, February 26th at 12:00 noon - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Conversation)
Noontime Book Conversation (Originally scheduled for February 12th.) The group will feature Diana Peele leading a discussion of Carson McCullers’
The Member of the Wedding. Meeting ordinarily on the second Tuesday of every month from 12:00pm until 1:00pm, the group has no fixed members (although quite a few regulars). Readers are urged to nominate a book to be read, especially if they are willing to lead the discussion. We focus on fiction & drama with occasional foray into the graphic novel. We limit the length of our selections to about 200 pages, although this is a guideline rather than a fixed rule. We believe in the joy of re-reading, so some of our selections are works that many have already read at least once. The noontime book group is under the general oversight of Michael Greenebaum (mlgreenebaum33@gmail.com) who selects the books & leads the discussions. He is happy to hear from those with ideas or questions. Amherst Books offers a 10% discount on the month’s book for those who plan to join the group.
- Tuesday, February 26th at 4:30pm (Book launch party)
(Originally scheduled for February 12th.) Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by
Adam Colman —
Drugs & the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Colman, who teaches in the English Department at UMass here in Amherst, is also author of the recently published,
New Uses for Failure: Ben Lerner’s 10:04.
- Thursday, February 28th at 4:00pm (Talk)
Lindsey Swindall will talk in the
Theater Room #3, New Africa House, UMass, Amherst. Swindall is author of
Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art,
The Politics of Paul Robeson’s Othello , &
The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights & Anticolonialism, 1937-1955.
- Thursday, February 28th at 7:00pm (Reading)
Noted author
Jonathan Dee will read from his recent novel,
The Locals, at the
Amherst Middle School, 170 Chestnut Street, Amherst, as part of the Jones Library’s “On the Same Page” program. For more information, see
here.
- Thursday, February 28th at 7:30pm (Discussion)
Fourth Annual Amherst College LitFest “National Book Awards on Campus: A Conversation with 2018 Fiction Finalists”
Jamel Brinkley &
Brandon Hobson, moderated by
Rebecca Carroll, in
Johnson Chapel, Amherst College. For more information:
LitFest Calendar