• Sunday, November 1st at 3:00pm (Poetry reading)

jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the Jones Library, Amherst.   Poets Monica McClure & Paige Taggart will read.   Meet the poets at an informal Q & A session that follows the reading.     For more information go to the jubilat Event page.

• Tuesday, November 3rd at 5:00pm (Talk)

Janet Marquardt will talk about her new book, Zodiaque: Making Medieval Modern, 1951-2001 at 214 Elm Hall, UMass, Amherst.   In Zodiaque, Marquardt explores the motivations, philosophies, & workshop practices of Éditions Zodiaque, which was begun by monks at the abbey of La Pierre-qui-Vire in Burgundy in 1951, & how they affected the scholarly discourse on medieval art & architecture.   Marquardt is Research Associate in Art History at Smith College & Distinguished Professor Emerita of Art History & Women’s Studies at Eastern Illinois University.

• Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:00pm (Reading)

Carla Panciera will read from her prize-winning collection of short stories, Bewildered, at the Jones Library, Amherst, as part of a reading series sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.

• Wednesday, November 4th at 4:30pm (Talk)

Edward Baptist will talk about his new book, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery & the Making of American Capitalism, at the Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Hall, UMass, Amherst.   Baptist teaches in the History Department at Cornell University.

• Thursday, November 5th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Join Amherst College professor Amrita Basu in celebrating the publication of her new book, Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India.  

• Monday, November 9th at 5:00pm (Reading)

Sergey Gandlevsky will read from his work at the Amherst Center for Russian Culture (Webster Hall), Amherst College.   An important figure in the Soviet-era literary underground, Gandlevsky was unable to publish in Russia until the fall of the Soviet Union.   He has since garnered major literary prizes for several books of poetry and a book of memoirs, including both the Little Booker Prize & the Anti-Booker Prize for his 1996 work, Trepanation of the Skull.  

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

Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel will read from her new YA book, Wabanaki Blues: Book 1 Of The Wabanaki Trilogy.   Zobel, who has published many books, is a Mohegan author, historian & storyteller who serves as both the Medicine Woman & Tribal Historian for the Mohegan Tribe.   In addition, she is executive director of the tribe’s cultural & community programs department.

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

Bruce Laurie will talk about his recent book, Rebels in Paradise: Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists, at the Jones Library, Amherst, as part of a reading series sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.

• Wednesday, November 11th at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)

Ish Klein & Greg Purcell will read from their new collections of poetry.   Poet & filmmaker Klein is author of three volumes of poetry: Moving Day; Union!; & most recently, Consolation & Mirth.   Purcell’s poetry has appeared in Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, The Agriculture Reader, Open City & New American Writing.   His new volume of poetry is The Fundaments.

• Thursday, November 12th at 6:00pm (Poetry reading)

Jonathan Moody will read from his new collection of poetry, Olympic Butter Gold, which won the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize.   Moody’s poetry has appeared African American Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Common, Crab Orchard Review, good foot, Tidal Basin Review, Xavier Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, & the anthology, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade.   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.

• Thursday, November 12th at 8:00pm (Reading)

Noy Holland & Leni Zumas will read in Memorial Hall, UMass, Amherst, as part of the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.   Holland, who teaches here at UMass in MFA Program is author of several books, including Swim for the Little Ones First &, most recently, Bird.   Zumas, an alum of the UMass MFA Program, is author of two books, Farewell, Navigator & The Listeners.

• Friday, November 13th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Join Amherst College professor Edward Melillo in celebrating the publication of his new book, Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection.

• Monday, November 16th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Join UMass political science professors Ray La Raja & Brian Schaffner in celebrating the publication of their new book, Campaign Finance & Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail.  

• Tuesday, November 17th at 5:30pm (Poetry reading)

Claudia Rankine will read in Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College, Amherst.   Rankine is a poet & playwright. Her Citizen: An American Lyric was a finalist for the National Book Award in Criticism & winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry; Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric; & Nothing in Nature is Private, which won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize.

• Tuesday, November 17th at 7:00pm (Talk)

Jeannine Atkins will read from her recent novel for adults, Little Woman in Blue : A Novel of May Alcott , at the Jones Library, Amherst.   Atkins, who has written numerous books for children, will talk about May Alcott’s passion for painting & her rivalry with her more famous sister, Louisa.

• Wednesday, November 18th at 5:30pm (Talk)

Cartoonist & journalist Joe Sacco will converse with Hampshire College professor Uzma Aslam Khan in the Main Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College, Amherst.   Sacco an internationally renowned & award winning comics journalist with numerous books including Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza, The Fixer, Safe Area Gorazde, Journalism, & The Great War.

• Thursday, November 19th at 6:00pm (Reading)

Pilot & writer, Mark Vanhoenacker will read from his wonderful new book about flying, Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot   A Pittsfield, Massachusetts native, Vanhoenacker left a job as a management consultant in 2001 to become a pilot & has since split his time between the skies & the page.   He’s now a senior first officer with British Airways.   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.

• Thursday, November 19th at 7:00pm (Talk)

University of Massachusetts history professor Chris Appy & Clark Dougan, former senior editor at Umass Press, will discuss the “Culture, Politics, & the Cold War” series which UMass Press began.   Appy’s latest book is American Reckoning: The Vietnam War & Our National Identity.   Part of a reading series sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.

• Monday, November 23rd at 7:00pm (Reading)

UMass MFA alums, Rachel Glaser & Sara Jaffe, will read from their new books.   Glaser is author of three books, Moods, a collection of poetry; Pee on Water, a collection of short stories; & a new novel, Paulina & Fran.   Nylon has cited her as one of the “Coolest Female Poets to Know Right Now.”   She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.   Jaffe, author of the new collection of short stories, Dryland, is a fiction writer, teacher of writing, & musician living in Portland, Oregon.   She is former guitarist for Erase Errata & is co-editor of New Herring Press.

• Tuesday, November 24th at 7:00pm (Reading)

John Bracey & James Smethurst will talk about their recent book, SOS—Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader at the Jones Library, Amherst, as part of a reading series sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.