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September 24, 2021

News & Events

» Signed First Editions
» Indie Bookstore Exclusives
» Our Ticketed Events
» Upcoming Virtual Events
» Community Resources
» New Arrivals & Best Sellers

Welcoming you (back) to Boston/Cambridge with books!

News from Harvard Book Store

Signed First Editions, Delivered Monthly

The upcoming selections for our Signed First Edition Club include some of the most anticipated and praised books of the year, and we're so excited to deliver these books to our club members in the coming months. Sign up for a subscription today! Richard Powers's Bewilderment, our September Selection, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. Later this year you'll receive Anthony Doerr's National Book Award longlisted Cloud Cuckoo Land (Our October Selection), What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy (Our November Selection), and Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King (Our December Selection). Learn more.

Indie Bookstore Exclusives

On our shelves now! A special hardcover edition of Dave Eggers's followup to The CircleThe Everyis available exclusively through independent bookstores and the book’s independent, nonprofit publisher, McSweeney’s. This edition is available in a dizzying, ever-expanding, and entirely randomized array of cover variations. Please note that we cannot meet requests for specific colors or covers. Let the fates decide when you order your copy here on harvard.com, or come on into the store and pick out your favorite!

As Eggers told the New York Times in June, “I don’t like bullies . . . Amazon has been kicking sand in the face of independent bookstores for decades now . . . . One of the themes of the book is the power of monopolies to dictate our choices, so it seemed a good opportunity to push back a bit against the monopoly, Amazon, that currently rules the book world."

And another very special offer: Enter for the opportunity to purchase Sir Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics—the signed, numbered, limited edition. This drawing will close on Wednesday, September 29 at 12:01am ET.

Our Event Series

Browse the lineup of our upcoming virtual events including newly announced events with Mary Beard, Mary Gaitskill, and Sarah Ruhl. And we are regularly posting new announcements! You can also view our video archive of past events.

Tickets On Sale Now

» Jill Louise Busby with Jason Reynolds (Sep 27)
» Karl Ove Knausgaard with Lauren Oyler (Sep 30)
» Mary Roach with Lindsey Fitzharris (Oct 5)
» Joshua Ferris with Lynne Tillman (Oct 5)
» Alice Hoffman with Chris Bohjalian (Oct 6)
» Jonathan Franzen with Tony Tulathimutte (Oct 6)
» Gregory Maguire with Christopher Moore (Oct 12)
» Mary Beard with Emma Dench (Oct 13) - NEWLY ANNOUNCED
» Mary Gaitskill with Yiyun Li (Oct 20) - NEWLY ANNOUNCED
» Sarah Ruhl with John Lahr (Oct 21) - NEWLY ANNOUNCED
» Ann Patchett with Scott Simon (Nov 23)

Upcoming Virtual Events

Jill Louise Busby with Jason Reynolds

Monday, September 27, 7PM ET

Acclaimed critic and filmmaker Jill Louise Busby discusses her highly anticipated, debut essay collection, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity. Joining in conversation is Jason Reynolds, bestselling author of Long Way Down and, with Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. There are two ticket options available for this event. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

George Makari with Anthony Walton

Monday, September 27, 7PM ET

Psychiatrist, historian, and writer George Makari discusses his latest book, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia. He will be joined in conversation by award-winning poet Anthony Walton, author of Mississippi: An American Journey. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Kristin Henning with Premal Dharia

Tuesday, September 28, 7PM ET

Kristin Henning—director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at the Georgetown University Law Center—discusses The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. Joining in conversation is Premal Dharia, executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Deborah Tuerkheimer with Emily Bazelon

Wednesday, September 29, 7PM ET

Deborah Tuerkheimer—the Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law—discusses Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers. Joining in conversation is journalist and legal commentator Emily Bazelon, author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Amia Srinivasan with Merve Emre

Thursday, September 30, 5PM ET

Amia Srinivasan—the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford—discusses The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. Joining in conversation is fellow Oxford don Merve Emre, author of The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

In the Kitchen: Remembering Julia with Your Favorite Chefs

Thursday, September 30, 7PM ET

Renowned local chefs Kevin Conner, Gordon Hamersley, Michela Larson, and Lydia Shire discuss the groundbreaking life, career, and legacy of Julia Child. Their discussion will be moderated by fellow Boston chef Mary-Catherine Deibel, with introductions from celebrated author Alice Hoffman and Susan Pories, Director of the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital and co-author of In the Kitchen with Your Favorite Chefs: Celebrating Julia Child. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Karl Ove Knausgaard with Lauren Oyler

Thursday, September 30, 8PM ET

Karl Ove Knausgaard—bestselling, award-winning author of the renowned My Struggle series—discusses his latest novel, The Morning Star. Joining in conversation is book critic and novelist Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts: A Novel. Tickets are required; each ticket includes one hardcover copy of The Morning Star and one bookplate signed by the author. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Andil Gosine with Faith Smith

Friday, October 1, 12PM ET

Andil Gosine—professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University—discusses Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. Joining in conversation is Faith Smith, associate professor of African and African American Studies, English, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University and author of Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Cass Sunstein

Friday, October 1, 7PM ET

Renowned legal scholar Cass Sunstein—the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and author of Too Much Information—discusses Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

All Upcoming Events

Community Events & Resources

Book Reading and Conversation with Dax-Devlon Ross: Author Dax-Devlon Ross will be at RepHAIRations for the evening to read from and discuss his new book Letters to my White Male Friends. Masks required. Wednesday, September 29, 7pm–9pm ET, 1339 Mass Ave, Arlington MA [learn more]

Black Lives Matter.

In Case You Missed It

New Arrivals & Best Sellers

In case you missed it, check out our latest "New This Week" newsletter, and come browse our virtual New Arrivals shelves for all the very latest new books, updated every Tuesday. Our weekly store best sellers are updated on Mondays (and they are 20% off for Frequent Buyer Card members!). And on a monthly basis, we recommend dozens of recently published featured titles.

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