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Tickets On Sale Now
» Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda with playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes and cultural critic Jeremy McCarter presenting their book In the Heights: Finding Home in conversation with America Ferrera (Jun 15) » Stacey Abrams discussing Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, now in paperback, in conversation with Cari Champion (Jun 22) - * NEWLY ANNOUNCED*» How to Change Your Mind author Michael Pollan presenting his latest book, This Is Your Mind on Plants (Jul 8) » Saturday Night Live's Cecily Strong discussing her memoir This Will All Be Over Soon ("an intimate portrait of a very funny person’s very sad year") in conversation with Chanel Miller (Aug 10) - * NEWLY ANNOUNCED* |
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Helene Wecker with Angela Mi Young Hur
Monday, June 14, 7PM ET
Helene Wecker—author of the internationally bestselling The Golem and the Jinni—discusses her highly anticipated follow-up, The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni, in which a Dickensian interplay of lives and events touch Chava, a Jewish golem, and Ahmad, an Arabian jinni, in the early years of the 20th century. Joining in conversation is acclaimed novelist Angela Mi Young Hur, author of Folklorn. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi with Lesley Nneka Arimah
Tuesday, June 15, 5PM ET
Award-winning writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi—author of Kintu—celebrates the paperback release of her latest, acclaimed novel, A Girl Is A Body of Water, a coming-of-age novel set in Uganda in the 1970s. Joining in conversation is Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of the Kirkus Prize–winning story collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Maria Konnikova with Joshua Foer
Tuesday, June 15, 7PM ET
International poker champion Maria Konnikova—author of the bestselling books Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes and The Confidence Game—celebrates the paperback release of The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win. Joining in conversation is journalist and entrepreneur Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter
Tuesday, June 15, 8PM ET
Bookstores across the country welcome Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter for a very special In the Heights: Finding Home virtual book launch. They will be joined in conversation by actress America Ferrera. Sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity, community, and finding home, this is your chance to hear directly from the creative team behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world. Tickets required; all tickets include a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Aaron S. Lecklider with Avram Finkelstein
Wednesday, June 16, 7PM ET
Aaron S. Lecklider—associate professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Inventing the Egghead: The Battle Over Brainpower in American Culture—discusses Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture. Joining in conversation is Avram Finkelstein, founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives and author of After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Brandon Fleming with Nic Stone
Thursday, June 17, 7PM ET
Brandon Fleming—assistant coach of debate at Harvard University and founder of the Harvard Diversity Project—discusses his memoir, Miseducated, in which Fleming's disaffection with life transforms through his embrace of literature and debate. Joining in conversation is bestselling writer Nic Stone, author of young adult novels Dear Martin and Dear Justyce. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Community Events & Resources
Trans Resistance March, Vigil, and Pride Fest: Join Trans Resistance MA for the second annual March and Vigil for Black Trans Lives, featuring tabling by LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC community organizations, and performances by local artists and musicians. Saturday, June 12, 11am–4pm, Franklin Park Trails, Jamaica Plain [learn more]
Black Lives Matter.
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Publisher Focus: Liveright Publishing
Our Publisher Focus window display this week features On Juneteenth by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, plus additional titles on Black history from Liveright Publishing (two of which just won a Pulitzer Prize!)
H.W. Brands, for the New York Times Book Review, had this to say of Professor Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth: "The Education of Henry Adams is the second most influential memoir in American letters, after Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. Annette Gordon-Reed’s insightful, often touching reflection on the Black experience in Texas, starting with her own, lands between these two. . . . Gordon-Reed has earned acclaim as one of the most important American historians of our time." Learn more about this important new book here on harvard.com.
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Reading Lists & Recommendations
» Juneteenth—also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day—is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. We've got reading recommendations about Juneteenth for readers young and old this month, from a variety of publishers, and including fiction, nonfiction, and picture books. |
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Thanks for reading,
Alex W. Meriwether
General Manager
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