• Tuesday, September 12th at 12:10pm - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Conversation)

Amherst Books Noontime Book Conversation Johnstone Campbell will lead a discussion of Athol Fugard’s play A Lesson from Aloes.   The Conversation is not a book group in the traditional sense: it expects readers to come & go as their schedules & interests allow.   If you can, purchase your copy from Amherst Books with a 10% discount.   The group meets on the second Tuesday of every month.   Feel free to bring your lunch; water will be provided.

• Tuesday, September 12th at 5:00pm (Cooking demonstration & book signing)

Summer Chef Series   Betty Rosbottom will be the featured cook & author at this week’s Tuesday Market Summer Chef Series behind Thorne’s Market, Northampton, as part of the Grow Food Northampton! Tuesday Market farmer's market which runs from 1:30 - 6:30 Tuesdays from April 25th to November 7th.

• Wednesday, September 13th at 8:00pm (Reading)

Amherst College visiting writer Peter Kimani will read from his recent book, Dance of the Jakaranda.   Kimani is author of three novels: Before the Rooster Crows, Upside Down, &, most recently, Dance of the Jakaranda, a New York Times Editors’ Choice.   Kimani was one of three international poets commissioned by National Public Radio to compose a poem for Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.   He is a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Media & Communications at Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya.   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.

• Thursday, September 14th at 7:00pm (Talk)

Amherst College Professor William Taubman, whose biography on Nikita Khrushchev won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004, will talk in the Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College, about his new book, Gorbachev: His Life & Times.

• Friday, September 15th at 7:00pm (Talk)

Kevin Van Meter will talk about his new book, Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance & Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible.   Van Meter is an activist-scholar based in the Pacific Northwest.   He is co-editor of Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, & Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States & a contributor to Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency, We are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, & Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization.

• Sunday, September 17th at 3:00pm (Poetry reading)

jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the Jones Library, Amherst.   Kevin González, Caryl Pagel, & Emily Pettit 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, September 19th at 5:00pm (Cooking demonstration & book signing)

Summer Chef Series   Brittany Nickerson will be the featured cook & author at this week’s Tuesday Market Summer Chef Series behind Thorne’s Market, Northampton, as part of the Grow Food Northampton! Tuesday Market farmer's market which runs from 1:30 - 6:30 Tuesdays from April 25th to November 7th.

• Tuesday, September 19th at 7:00pm (Discussion)

Wesley Lowery will talk in Stirn Auditorium, Amherst College.   Lowery is a Pulitzer-winning reporter for the Washington Post & author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, & a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.   This is the second discussion in the "Trump: Point/Counterpoint" conversation series featuring Amherst College Professor, & host of NEPR’s "In Contrast", Ilan Stavans & a guest engaging in thoughtful discussion & attempting to bridge the ideological divide growing in our nation.   For more information, go here.

• Thursday, September 21st at 4:00pm (Talk)

Sportswriter Kate Fagan will talk in the Massachusetts Room, Mullins Center, UMass, Amherst, about recent work .   Fagan, who writes for ESPN, is author of The Reappearing Act: Coming Out as Gay on a College Basketball Team Led by Born-Again Christians, & most recently, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles & Tragic Death of an All-American Teen.

• Tuesday, September 26th at 5:00pm (Cooking demonstration & book signing)

Summer Chef Series   Virginia Willis will be the featured cook & author at this week’s Tuesday Market Summer Chef Series behind Thorne’s Market, Northampton, as part of the Grow Food Northampton! Tuesday Market farmer's market which runs from 1:30 - 6:30 Tuesdays from April 25th to November 7th.

• Tuesday, September 26th at 8:00pm (Reading)

Maaza Mengiste will read from recent work.   Mengiste is author of the widely acclaimed Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, which was named one of the 10 best contemporary African books by The Guardian.   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.

• Thursday, September 28th at 7:00pm (Discussion)

Bret Stephens will talk in Stirn Auditorium, Amherst College.   Stephens is an American journalist, editor & political commentator who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013.   In addition to his neoconservative foreign policy opinions, Stephens is known for being part of the right-wing opposition to Donald Trump, & for his contrarian views on climate change.   He is author of several books, including America in Retreat: The New Isolationism & the Coming Global Disorder & Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?: The Munk Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy.  The second of the "Trump: Point/Counterpoint" conversation series features Amherst College Professor, & host of NEPR’s "In Contrast", Ilan Stavans & a guest engaging in thoughtful discussion & attempting to bridge the ideological divide growing in our nation.   For more information, go here.

• Thursday, September 28th at 8:00pm (Reading)

CANCELEDYiyun Li will read in Memorial Hall, UMass, Amherst, from her recent memoir, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life.   Li is author of two novels—The vagrants & Kinder Than Solitude.   She is the recipient of awards, including a Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, & a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.   Part of the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.

• Friday, September 29th at 7:00pm (Reading)

“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.