• Tuesday, January 10th at 7:00pm (Reading)

Rescheduled to Thursday, February 2ndNoy Holland will read selections from her new book, I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New & Selected Stories.   Holland, who teaches in the M.F.A. Program for Writers & Poets here at the University of Massachusetts, is author of numerous books including, Bird: A Novel, Swim for the Little Ones First, & What Begins with Bird.  

• Tuesday, January 17th at 12:10pm - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Discussion)

Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion of Carol Shields’s lovely & sly domestic tale, Small Ceremonies.   Feel free to bring your lunch.   Amherst Books will provide coffee & water.   There is a 10% discount on the book until the end of the month.   All are welcome.   (This discussion will be reprised on Wednesday, January 18th.)

• Wednesday, January 18th at 12:10pm - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Discussion)

Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion of Carol Shields’s lovely & sly domestic tale, Small Ceremonies.   Feel free to bring your lunch.   Amherst Books will provide coffee & water.   There is a 10% discount on the book until the end of the month.   All are welcome.   (This is a repeat discussion of one held on January 17th.)

• Thursday, January 26th at 8:00pm Talk

Masha Gessen will talk in the Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College, about “The Trump-Putin Connect: What We Imagine & Why.”   Gessen is author of numerous books including Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, & most recently, Where the Jews Aren’t The Sad & Absurd Story of Birobidzhan Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region.   For more information see the Amherst College calendar.