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Events

< November 2016 >

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.

Peter Benes will talk about his new book, For a Short Time Only: Itinerants & the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America, at the Jones Library, Amherst.   Benes, who is also author of Meetinghouses of Early New England is director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife in affiliation with Historic Deerfield, Inc., in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Yaa Gyasi will read from her recent novel, Homegoing.   Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Book Award-winning author of Between the World & Me, wrote “Gyasi’s characters are so fully realized, so elegantly carved—very often I found myself longing to hear more.   Craft is essential given the task Gyasi sets for herself—drawing not just a lineage of two sisters, but two related peoples.   Gyasi is deeply concerned with the sin of selling humans on Africans, not Europeans.   But she does not scold.   She does not excuse.   And she does not romanticize....Homegoing is an inspiration.”   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
Amherst’s own Sabina Murray will read from her new novel, Valiant Gentleman in Memorial Hall, UMass, as part of the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.   Murray, who teaches in the MFA Program here at the University of Massachusetts is author of numerous novels & collections, including A Carnivore’s Inquiry, Forger, & Tales of the New World.   She has held Bunting & a Guggenheim felllowships & is winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Valzhyna Mort will read from recent work.   Mort is a Belarusian poet who now lives in the United States.   Her first book of poetry, I’m as Thin as Your Eyelashes, came out in Belarus in 2005.   In 2004 in Slovenia she received a Crystal Vilencia Award for best poetry performance.   She was the recipient, in 2005, of a Gaude Polonia scholarship in Poland, &, in 2006, of a writing fellowship from Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Germany.   Her recent collection of poetry, Collected Body, is her first collection of poems composed entirely in English.   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
Johnstone Campbell will lead a discussion of the medieval murder mystery, Morality Play, by Booker Prize-winner Barry Unsworth.   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 Monday, Novermber 21st.)
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Physician, essayist, poet, Rafael Campo will talk in the Cole Assembly Room (aka the “Red Room”), in Converse Hall at Amherst College, on “Cultural Competence: Poetry & the Importance of Voice in Diverse Illness Experiences.”   Campo is author of Alternative Medicine, a collection of poetry & The Desire to Heal: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, & Poetry, among other books.
Emily Dickinson reading at bookstore
“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.
University of Massachusetts professors Max Page & Marla Miller will talk at the Jones Library, Amherst, about their new book, Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States, a collection of essays examining the current state & future prospects of the National Historic Preservation Act.   Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.
University of Massachusetts professor James Young will talk at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, & Memory Studies (758 North Pleasant Street, Amherst), about his new book, The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, & the Spaces Between.   Founding director of the Institute & Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English & Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University, Young reflects on the expectations that countries bring to their painful memorial debates.   Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.
The New England chapter of Mystery Writers of America is hosting a gathering for readers & writers of mysteries — everything from classic whodunits, cozies, true crime, thrillers to historical & Scandinavian noir. Conversation & refreshments. All welcome.
Johnstone Campbell will lead a discussion of the medieval murder mystery, Morality Play, by Booker Prize-winner Barry Unsworth.   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 is a repeat of one from Wednesday, November 9th.)
Ilan Stavans & others will talk in the Jones Library, Amherst, about Words in Transit: Stories of Immigration.   The Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts is home to immigrants & refugees from around the globe whose presence revitalizes the region & redefines its culture.  Stavans, himself an immigrant, will facilitate a discussion with a panel of contributors of Words in Transit, a collection of selected stories recorded by New England Public Radio in collaboration with the Copeland Colloquium at Amherst College & produced by Tema Silk & Cathleen O’Keefe under the direction of John Voci.   A discussion period will follow the talk.   Please come & share your story.
Pat Schneider & Karen Skofield will read as part of a book launch for the 2017 edition of Gallery of Readers Anthology.   For information Gallery of Readers.
Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by Amherst College visiting professor Jessica Lake—The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy.   Lake, whose academic home is the Swinburne Law School in Australia, documents how the advent of photography & cinema drove women whose images were being taken & circulated without their consent to court.
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