• Wednesday, September 11th at 6:30pm (Reading)

CanceledJoy James will read & talk about her new book, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power.   James, who teaches at Williams College, is author of numerous books, including Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders & American Intellectuals, & The New Abolitionists, Resisting State Violence; & editor of The Angela Y. Davis Reader.  

• Thursday, September 12th at 6:00pm (Book launch party)

Join us in celebrating a new book by Lynnette Arnold, Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families.   Arnold is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.   Her research examines the power of language in contexts of mobility & migration in the Americas.

• Friday, September 13th at 7:00pm (Reading)

Amherst resident & Hampshire College professor emerita Betsy Hartmann will read from her third thriller, Last Place Called Home.   Aside from her thrillers— the last one, Deadly Election, was an eerily prescient novel about the attempt to undermine American democracy during a hotly contested presidential election—she is author, among others, of Reproductive Rights & Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control & The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War & Our Call to Greatness.

• Thursday, September 19th at 6:00pm (Poetry reading)

Tongo Eisen-Martin will read from recent work at the Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst, as part of the UMass Visiting Writers Series.   Eisen-Martin is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco.   He is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes, which was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, received the California Book Award for Poetry, an American Book Award, & a PEN Oakland Book Award. — His latest collection of poetry is Blood on the Fog.   For more information, go here.

• Friday, September 20th at 7:00pm (Reading)

Jonathan Lash & Annie Rogers will read from their first novels.   Lash’s What Death Revealed, is a thriller set in Washington, D.C.; Rogers’, a meditation on the mysterious & transformative power of words.   Lash is a former federal prosecutor, environmental litigator, & was the sixth president of Hampshire College.  His book, A Season of Spoils, told the story of the Reagan Administration’s assault on the environment.   Rogers is a writer, psychoanalyst, & printmaker.   She is Analyst of the School at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, where she teaches & supervises. & She was a professor for much of her professional life, serving on faculties at Harvard University & Hampshire College.   Her earlier books include A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm & Healing in Psychotherapy & Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis & the Enigma of Language.

• Saturday, September 21st at 2:00pm (Reading)

Amherst resident Britt Crow-Miller will read from her new middle-reader nature book, World of Rot: Learn All about the Wriggly, Slimy, Super-Cool Decomposers We Couldn't Live Without.   Crow-Miller, who is on the faculty in the Departments of Environmental Conservation & Geosciences, is the founding director of CityWild, a nonprofit organization with the mission of inspiring curiosity about the natural world through fun, exploration, & hands on learning for kids & families, including those in underserved & historically marginalized communities.

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

Megan Milks will read at the CHI Lyceum, Amherst College, 197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst, as part of the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series. — Milks is author Slug & other Stories, Margaret & the Mystery of the Missing Body, & Kill Marguerite & Other Stories, among other books.  Aside from fiction, they write nonfiction & literary criticism.  Their interests include contemporary art & literature, transgender, queer, feminist, & disability studies, asexuality studies, & critical psychiatry.   Childcare provided in Lyceum 102.   For more information see the AC Visiting Writer Series website

• Tuesday, September 24th at 6:00pm (Talk)

The 2024-2025 Feinberg Series: What Are Universities For? Keynote speaker Davarian L. Baldwin will talk in UMass, Amherst, Bowker Auditorium & Zoom about “Is Higher Education Good for Our Communities?   Assessing the Past & Forging a New Path Forward”   Baldwin is an internationally recognized historian, cultural critic, & public advocate.   He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies & founding director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.   For more information go here.

• Tuesday, September 24th at 7:30pm (Talk)

Patricia Willams will read in the Pruyne Lecture Room, 115 Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College, from her recent book, The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, & the Spirit of the Law.   Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School & the longtime former “Diary of a Mad Law Professor” columnist for The Nation.  She is a MacArthur fellow & the author of six books, including The Alchemy of Race & Rights.  She is currently a University Distinguished Professor of Law & Humanities at Northeastern University in Boston.

• Wednesday, September 25th at 4:30pm (Talk)

Join Sumana Roy at the will talk about “The Quest for the Plant Script” at the CHI Lyceum, Amherst College, 197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst, as part of the CHI Salon series. — Roy is the author of How I Became a Tree & Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries; Missing: A Novel; My Mother’s Lover & Other Stories; & two collections of poems: Out of Syllabus & VIP: Very Important Plant.  Childcare provided in Lyceum 102.  For more information, see here.

• Wednesday, September 25th at 7:00pm (Reading)

Author, speaker, & life coach, Michael Shandler, will read from his new book, Karma & Kismet: A Spiritual Quest Across Continents, Cultures, & Consciousness.   Evoking Paul Theroux’s travel novels in directness, color, & observations, Karma & Kismet catapults the reader into an international & cross–cultural journey, an authentic sixties & seventies quest for meaning & place.