October 30, 2021
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October sunlight on Plympton St.
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News from Harvard Book Store
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Thousands of Books at Deep Discounts
Clear some space on your bookshelves, because our famous Virtual Warehouse Sale is once again open for shopping, exclusively at hbswarehousesale.com. If you've shopped the Warehouse Sale before, this fall's sale brings hundreds of new arrivals to browse and buy. Come fill your virtual carts with great books, deeply discounted, and in a wide array of categories. Shop now, as quantities are limited and we expect many titles to sell out. Review the policies and details, and get your orders in soon. The Virtual Warehouse Sale will close its digital doors on November 15.
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Our Event Series
Browse the lineup of our award-winning virtual events series; we are regularly posting new announcements! You can also view our video archive of past events. And see below for those events that require tickets.
Tickets On Sale Now
» Crime fiction writer Tana French with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn (Nov 11) discussing The Searcher (new to paperback)
» Novelist Ann Patchett with NPR's Scott Simon (Nov 23) discussing Patchett's new essay collection, These Precious Days
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Woody Holton with Annette Gordon-Reed
Monday, November 1, 7PM ET
Woody Holton—award-winnng author of Abigail Adams and Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution—discusses Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution. Joining in conversation is Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Dr. Denis Mukwege with Tarana Burke
Wednesday, November 3, 12PM ET
Nobel Peace Prize–winning surgeon and human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege discusses his soon-to-be-published book, The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing. Joining in conversation is Tarana Burke, celebrated founder of the "Me Too" Movement and author of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Dorie Greenspan with Joanne Chang
Wednesday, November 3, 7PM ET
Beloved baker and cookbook author Dorie Greenspan discusses her latest, highly anticipated cookbook, Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple. Joining in conversation is fellow James Beard Award–winning baker Joanne Chang, owner of Flour Bakery and Myers + Chang. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Sandro Galea with Arianna Huffington
Thursday, November 4, 5PM ET
Epidemiologist Sandro Galea—dean of the Boston University School of Public Health—discusses The Contagion Next Time. Joining in conversation is Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post and CEO of Thrive Global. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Jelani Cobb
Thursday, November 4, 7PM ET
Award-winnng New Yorker staff writer and historian Jelani Cobb discusses The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker, which collects the magazine's groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and many others. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Ravi Shankar with Vijay Seshadri
Friday, November 5, 7PM ET
Pushcart Prize-winning poet and editor Ravi Shankar discusses his memoir Correctional. Joining in conversation is Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and essayist Vijay Seshadri. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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Community Events & Resources
Examining Slavery’s Modern Legacy with Nikole Hannah-Jones: MassArt Art Museum is excited to announce a free virtual talk by esteemed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones’s discussion will examine slavery’s enduring modern legacy and the reframing of the Black American experience. Monday, November 1, 6:30pm ET [learn more and register]
Black Lives Matter.
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Publisher Focus
This week we have recently published titles from a number of university presses on display in our Publisher Focus window. featuring literary criticism, history, and other scholarly pursuits. Browse the selections here on harvard.com. Christmas Past brings together some of the most significant nineteenth-century seasonal stories to revive a forgotten tale of Christmases past. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History offers a perspective on the evening of May 31, 1921, largely missing from other accounts. The Philip Roth We Don’t Know poses provocative new questions and resuscitates long-running debates around the novelist's work.
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Recommended Reading
» The Windows & Mirrors Project is a collection of titles curated each year by the New England Children’s Booksellers Advisory Council. Browse and shop the 2021 Windows & Mirrors selections. These kids and YA titles represent diversity, inclusivity, and the concept of " Windows & Mirrors" in books for young readers
» This year's Best American Series with 2021's best short stories, science writing, travel writing, essays, and more
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Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!
Harvard Book Store is locally owned and independently run, and has been since 1932. Your purchases support the future of this independent bookstore, so thank you! Shop our shelves from home at harvard.com.
Thanks for reading,
Alex W. Meriwether
General Manager
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