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Events

< September 2018 >

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.

2018 Feinberg Series: Another World is Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past & Present  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Mary Hooks, & Kali Akuno will talk in the Mahar Auditorium, UMass, Amherst as the first event (”Reawakeniong the Black Radical Imagination”) in the History Department’s Feinberg Lecture series.   The past decade has been marked by a resurgence of the Black Freedom Struggle.   Mary Hooks of Southerners on New Ground, Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson, & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation & How We Get Free, will explore the emergence of new ideas – Freedom Dreams – of the world to be won. Moderated by Toussaint Losier, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies.   For more information: UMass Events Calendar.
Lisa McCarty will talk in Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College.   McCarty, whose art photographs will be on display in the Eli Marsh Gallery, 105 Fayerweather, is an artist, curator, & educator based in Durham, North Carolina.   For more information, see here.
2018 Feinberg Series: Another World is Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past & Present   Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, Rosa Rivera, & Diana Sierra Becerra will talk in the Student Ballroom, Campus Center, UMass, Amherst, about “State Violence & Revolution: Lessons from El Salvador.”   See here for more information.
Globalism & its Discontents: Point/Counterpoint with Ilan Stavans   George Will will talk in the Johnson Chapel, Amherst College, as part of the 2018-2019 Point/Counterpoint series.   Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics & domestic & foreign affairs.   He began his column with The Washington Post in 1974 & received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.   He is also a regular contributor to MSNBC & NBC News.   His books include: One Man’s America: The Pleasures & Provocations of Our Singular Nation, Restoration: Congress, Term Limits & the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy, & Statecraft as Soulcraft.   For more information on the series, go here.
POSTPONED until Tuesday, September 25thAmherst Books Noontime Book Conversation   Amherst Books is pleased to announce the third season of its noontime drop-in book group.   Meeting ordinarily on the second Tuesday of every month from noon until 1:00pm, the group has no fixed members (although quite a few regulars).   Readers are urged to nominate a book to be read, especially if they are willing to lead the discussion.   We focus on fiction & drama with occasional foray into the graphic novel.   We limit the length of our selections to about 200 pages, although this is a guideline rather than a fixed rule.   We believe in the joy of re-reading, so some of our selections are works that many have already read at least once.   The noontime book group is under the general oversight of Michael Greenebaum (mlgreenebaum33@gmail.com) who selects the books & leads the discussions.   He is happy to hear from those with ideas or questions.

The third season begins in a dazzling fashion on Tuesday, September 18th.   (Please note that this is the third Tuesday, so we can avoid the textbook rush.)  We shall discuss Richard McGuire’s Here.   This is a work like no other, a graphic work that both is rooted in the “bookness” of its presentation while it transcends & fulfills our expectations of what books are like.   Johnstone Campbell will lead the discussion of Here, & has prepared a brief quide to reading this unique work.   If you would like a copy of this guide, let Michael know at the address above.

Note: there is still plenty of time to get a copy.   Amherst Books is generously offering a 25% discount on this title because it is a hardcover book.   Michael Greenebaum has a copy that he will gladly lend out.

(October's discussion will meet on Tuesday the 16th.   October’s choice will be Gerald McFarland’s new book, TT Mann, Ace Detective.   The author will lead the discussion.)
Tess Taylor will read from recent poetry at the Center for Humanist Inquiry, Robert Frost Library, Second Floor, Amherst College.   Taylor is the author of The Forage House & Work & Days, which was named one of the best poetry books by the New York Times in 2016.
Local author Kelly Norris will read from her new memoir, Too White.   In it, she explores the challenging but essential process of anti-racist white identity development as a mother of a biracial child.   Norris’s writing about dealing with anti-racism in the classroom has appeared in anthologies & online journals.
2018 Feinberg Series: Another World is Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past & Present     The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II will talk at the Fine Arts Center, UMass, Amherst.   Barber is president of Repairers of the Breach, national co-chair of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign, & leads an alliance of more than 200 progressive organizations best known as “Moral Monday.”   This coalition has led justice work in North Carolina for a decade & inspired organizing across the nation.   Tickets, which are free, are recommended.   For more information: UMass Events Calendar.
Globalism & its Discontents: Point/Counterpoint with Ilan Stavans   Saskia Sassen will talk in the Stirn Auditorium, Amherst College with Ilan Stavans.   Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University & a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she chaired till 2015.   She is author of more than 8 books, including the recent Expulsions: Brutality & Complexity in the Global Economy.   For more information on the series, go here.
Travels with Bill, by Marietta Pritchard, is a conversation between journals kept by Marietta & her husband, Bill Pritchard.   There are excerpts from youthful diaries, accounts of sabbaticals in Rome & London, travels together & apart, & a look at what others have said about the pleasures & pains of travel.   The two have been married for over 60 years.   Join us while they give a joint reading from the book, a sort of “he said, she said” event.
jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the Jones Library, Amherst.   Rafael Campo & Ellen Doré Watson will read.   Meet the poets at an informal Q & A session that follows the reading.
Join Amherst College professor Javier Corrales in celebrating the publication of his new book, Fixing Democracy: Why Constitutional Change Often Fails to Enhance Democrac in Latin America.   Corrales is also author of Dragon In The Tropics: Venezuela & the Legacy Of Hugo Chavez & Presidents Without Parties: The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina.
Amherst Books Noontime Book Conversation   Johnstone Campbell will lead the discussion of Richard McGuire’s Here.   For more information see the entry for Tuesday, September 18th.
The Western Mass Chapter of Science for the People invites you to join political agroecologist M. Jahi Chappell in a discussion of his new book, Beginning to End Hunger: Food & Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, & Beyond, at Thompson Hall, Room 620, UMass, Amherst.   For more information on the Western Mass Chapter of Science for the People & their upcoming events, see here.
Monique Truong will read from recent work. Truong is the author of two novels, The Book of Salt & Bitter in the Mouth, both published to critical acclaim.   Truong is currently the vice president of The Authors Guild.   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
Christine Schutt will read in the Great Hall at the Old Chapel at UMass, Amherst, as part of the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.   Schutt is the author of three novels & three short story collections, most recently Pure Hollywood.   She has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction & the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.   For more information, see the UMass MFA’s events calendar.
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.
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