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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.
- Thursday, June 1st at 7:00pm(Talk)
Betsy Hartmann will talk about her new book,
The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War & Our Call to Greatness. Hartmann is professor emerita of development studies & senior policy analyst of the Population & Development Program at Hampshire College. She is author of
Reproductive Rights & Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control & two political thrillers,
The Truth about Fire &
Deadly Election.
- Tuesday, June 13th at 12:10pm - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Discussion)
Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion of Robert Walser’s
Jakob Von Gunten. Amherst Books’ Noontime Book Group is a book group without fixed membership. If you would like to chat about a book join us for that month. If you can, purchase your copy from Amherst Books with a 10% discount. The group meets on the second Tuesday of every month.
- Wednesday, June 14th at 7:00pm (Reading & talk)
Emily Monosson will talk about her new book,
Natural Defense: Enlisting Bugs & Germs to Protect Our Food & Health. In it Monosson explores contemporary techniques—from high-tech gene editing to the ancient practice of fecal transplants—that science is using to employ ecology, rather than ignoring it or running roughshod over it, to protect our food & health. Monosson is a toxicologist & author, a member of the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, & holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her last book (which she read from here!) is
Evolution in a Toxic World: How Life Responds to Chemical Threats.
- Sunday, June 18th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Emily Pettit &
Joy Williams will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.
The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go
here.
- Monday, June 19th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Dara Wier &
Tiphanie Yanique will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.
The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go
here.
- Tuesday, June 20th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Arda Collins &
Nathan Hill will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.
The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go
here.
- Wednesday, June 21st at 7:30pm (Reading)
Amy Leach,
Lydia Millet &
Arisa White will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.
The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go
here.
- Thursday, June 22nd7:30pm (Reading)
Timothy Donnelly &
Rachel Glaser will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.
The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go
here.
- Friday, June 23rd at 7:30pm (Reading)
Sam Michel &
Camille Rankine will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.
The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go
here.
- Saturday, June 24th at 7:30pm (Reading)
Paul Lisicky,
Harryette Mullen, &
Stephen Graham Jones will read in
Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the
Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.
The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go
here.
- Tuesday, June 27th at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)
Poets
Rod Smith &
Ish Klein will read from recent work. Smith is author of numerous volumes of poetry, including
Touché,
Deed, &
Music & Honesty. Klein, who lives in the Valley, is author of several volumes of poetry, including
Consolation & Mirth, &
Union!, as well as a play,
Drummer 41.
- Thursday, June 29th at 7:00pm (Reading)
Novelist, short-story writer & poet,
Victoria Redel will read from her new novel,
The Border of Truth. Redel is an American poet & fiction writer. She is author of four books of fiction, including
Make Me Do Things &
Loverboy, which was a Los Angeles Best Book & was made into a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon; as well as three books of poetry.