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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.
(Click on a picture or a title to check our inventory or to purchase.)
- Tuesday, October 7th at 5:30pm (Book launch party)
Join Amherst resident
Shirley Vernick in celebrating the publication of her new young adult novel,
The Black Butterfly. Vernick is author of two previous YA novels—
The Blood Lie, which won the Simon Wiesenthal Once Upon A World book award & is a Sydney Taylor Honor Book; &
Remember Dippy, which won the Dolly Gray Literature Award from the Council for Exceptional Children.
- Tuesday, October 14th at 5:00pm (Talk)
David Bollier will talk about his new book,
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons, at
PERI, Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant St., UMass, Amherst. Bill McKibben, author of
Deep Economy, wrote “The Commons is among the most important & hopeful concepts of our time, & once you’ve read this book you’ll understand why!”
- Thursday, October 16th at 4:00pm (Book launch party)
Join Amherst resident
Gerald McFarland in celebrating the publication of the second novel in his Buenaventura series,
What the Owl Saw. Last year we had a great party to celebrate the launch of the first installment,
The Brujo’s Way. McFarland, who taught history for many years here at the University of Massachusetts, is author several non fiction books, including
Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918, &
Scattered People: An American Family Moves West.
- Thursday, October 16th at 6:00pm (Reading)
Noy Holland,
Ryan MacDonald,
Lance Olsen, &
Susan Steinberg will read upstairs at the
High Horse, 24 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the FC2 — Fiction Collective Two. FC2 is an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction. The High Horse is a brew pub known for its excellent brews & food.
- Tuesday, October 21st at 4:00pm (Talk)
Peter Barnes will talk about his new book,
With Liberty & Dividends for All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don’t Pay Enough, at
PERI, Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant St, UMass, Amherst. Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor said, ”Peter Barnes takes the national discussion on inequality to a new & important level. Enormously thoughtful, insightful, & valuable.”
- Tuesday, October 21st at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)
Gerry Yelle &
Marian Kent will read from recent work. Yelle lives in Amherst & is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Program. His first volume of poetry is
The Holyoke Diaries . Kent, who describes herself as “a lawyer, a schmoozer, & a do-gooder,” is author of two volumes of poetry—most recently,
Superpowers or: More Poems about Flying.
- Wednesday, October 22nd at 5:00pm (Book launch party)
Join us in celebrating the publication of University of Massachusetts Art History professor
Karen Kurczynski’s new book,
The Art & Politics of Asger Jorn: The Avant-garde Won’t Give Up. A leading figure of the postwar avant-garde, Danish artist Asger Jorn has long been recognized for his founding contributions to the Cobra & Situationist International movements. In her new book, Kurczynski foregrounds Jorn’s assertion that creativity is crucial to subjectivity itself in our increasingly mediated ‘Society of the Spectacle.’
- Thursday, October 23rd at 4:30pm (Reading)
Gerald Vizenor will read from his recent novel,
Blue Ravens, in
Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski Museum, Amherst College. Vizenor, author of more than 30 books, is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. He has received an American Book Award, the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, & the Lifetime Literary Achievement Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas.
- Thursday, October 23rd at 8:00pm(Poetry reading)
Poet
Charles Wright will read in the
Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from his recent collection of poetry,
Caribou. Wright, who has published numerous collections of poetry, & several volumes of essays, shared the National Book Award in 1983 for
Country Music: Selected Early Poems & won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for
Black Zodiac. His translation of Eugenio Montale’s
The Storm & Other Poems won him the PEN Translation Prize in 1979/ Sponsored by the
University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.
- Sunday, October 26th at 4:00pm (Talk)
Dana Sawyer will talk about his new biography,
Huston Smith: Wisdomkeeper: Living the World’s Religions: The Authorized Biography of a 21st Century Spiritual Giant. Sawyer, who teaches at the Maine College of Art & in Asian Religions at the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine, is author of several biographies, including one about
Aldous Huxley. Huxley’s wife, Laura, said “Out of all the biographies written about Aldous, this is the only one he would have actually liked.” Huston Smith has taught at Syracuse University, M.I.T., the University of California, & Washington University. He is holder of twelve honorary degrees & has published over fourteen books, including
The World’s Religions.
- Thursday, October 30th at 4:30pm (Reading)
The Turkish Nobel Laureate
Orhan Pamuk will read in the
Bowker Auditorium, UMass, Amherst, in this year’s Troy Lecture. For more information go the University of Massachusetts English Department’s
website.
- Thursday, October 30th at 8:00pm (Reading)
Novelist
Jeffrey Eugenides will read in the
Red Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College. Eugenides is an American novelist & short story writer. He has written numerous short stories & essays, as well as three novels:
The Virgin Suicides,
Middlesex, &
The Marriage Plot.
Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, & France’s Prix Médicis. Sponsored by the
Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
