• Thursday, January 9th at 7:00pm (Talk)

Teresa Amabile will read from & talk about her new book, Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, (co-authored with Lotte Bailyn & Marcy Crary).   Retiring goes beyond the typical advice on retirement, providing insights to guide you in broader areas of life—identity issues, relationship challenges, & questions about creating a retirement life structure that works for you.  l; Amabile is primarily known for her research & writing on creativity, dating to the late 1970s.   Originally educated as a chemist, Amabile received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University in 1977.   She now studies how everyday life inside organizations can influence people & their performance.   Her research encompasses creativity, productivity, innovation, & inner work life – the confluence of emotions, perceptions, & motivation that people experience as they react to events at work.

• Friday, January 24th at 7:00pm (Reading)

Local author Stefan Petrucha, & audio book actor Erik Stone, will read from Petrucha’s new novel science fiction space opera, The Stars Within.  Petrucha is an American writer of comics & young adult fiction.   He has written graphic novels in the X-Files & Nancy Drew series, as well as science fiction & horror.   For 13 years, from 1994 to 2007, Petrucha wrote stories for Disney comic books published by Egmont.   He did events here in 2007 & 2008.

• Friday, January 31st at 6:00pm (Reading)

University of Massachusetts professors, Daniel Sack & David Rodríguez-Solás will read from & talk about their new books.   Sack, who teaches here in the Commonwealth Honors College & the English Department at UMass, is author several books, including After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, & the Future of Performance, for which we had a book launch party; Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape; Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, for which we had a book launch party; & most recently, Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying.   Rodríguez-Solás teaching interests are in modern & contemporary Spanish & Catalan theater, cultural memory, & visual & performance studies.   Aside from his most recent book, Performing the Transition to Democracy: Theater & Performance in 1970s Spain, Rodríguez-Solás is author of Teatros nacionales republicanos: la Segunda República y el teatro clásico español.