Events
02 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Kevin Salwen was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and founded the magazine Motto. Hannah is his idealistic 15 year-old daughter. The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back is the inspiring story of what happened when Hannah convinced her family to sell their Atlanta home and give half the money to charity. | ||
02 / 16
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Brookline’s own Risa Miller (Welcome to Heavenly Heights) teaches writing at Emerson College. Her latest novel, set in Brookline and Israel, deftly explores the battlegrounds between parents and children and faith and reason, following two sisters floored by their father's sudden conversion to Orthodox Judaism and his refusal to return from the Holy Land. | ||
02 / 17
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
One of the world’s best-selling mystery writers will pay a visit to Brookline in honor of what’s already being called his greatest thriller yet. Swedish sensation Henning Mankell, the man behind Wallander (portrayed by Kenneth Branagh in the PBS series of that name) has crafted a story that takes readers on a journey from a Swedish hamlet to Beijing and beyond. At the Coolidge Corner Theatre - tickets $5 | ||
02 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Book-lovers beleaguered by the ascension of digital information can find solace in acclaimed writer Marilyn Johnson’s new work. Through smart and funny stories about both carbon- and binary-based information professionals, she provides us with an invaluable perspective on the cyber revolution and the ever-increasing necessity of librarians. | ||
02 / 19
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Join us every third Friday during the Spring semester for the Breakwater Reading Series, featuring fiction and poetry by writers from UMass-Boston and Emerson MFA programs. For more information, please contact Angela: breakwater.reading@gmail.com | ||
02 / 20
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02 / 21
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02 / 22
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02 / 23
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The editor of the Rose Metal Press Guide to Flash Fiction has written a collection of beautifully-observed short stories set in far-flung corners of the globe. Published by North Carolina's beloved indie Press 53, Where the Dog Star Never Glows is a wise and emotionally honest look at characters seeking – or seeking to lose – themselves. | ||
02 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Marisa Meltzer, a freelance writer and regular contributor to The Daily Beast and The Awl, chronicled the rise and fall of the world’s best teen magazine in How Sassy Changed My Life. She brings the same wit and verve to Girl Power, an analysis of and paean to the early days of third-wave feminism, when Bikini Kill was a household name. | ||
02 / 25
Start: 7:00 pm
Start: Thu, 02/25/2010 - 7:00pm
End: Fri, 02/26/2010 - 9:00pm
Latino literary hero (Becoming Americans, Spanglish) and Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans visits Brookline Booksmith in honor of his long-awaited biography of the late, great Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The first of a two-volume biography, the book covers Marquez’s life until the publication of 100 Years of Solitude. | ||
02 / 26
End: 9:00 pm
Start: Thu, 02/25/2010 - 7:00pm
End: Fri, 02/26/2010 - 9:00pm
Latino literary hero (Becoming Americans, Spanglish) and Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans visits Brookline Booksmith in honor of his long-awaited biography of the late, great Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The first of a two-volume biography, the book covers Marquez’s life until the publication of 100 Years of Solitude. | ||
02 / 27
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02 / 28
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03 / 1
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03 / 2
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The poems in January O’Neil’s debut collection “offer masterfully complex portraits of childhood—both through the speaker’s memory and observations of her own children,” says Denise Duhamel. “O’Neil’s collection is substantial, playful, and compassionate.” Joining her is Nin Andrews, whose work has been called outrageous, scandalous & beautiful. | ||
03 / 3
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
In 2001, two Massachusetts nurses were investigated for murder when their patient – whom they had been helping with debilitating pain – died. Guggenheim Fellow Dr. Lewis Cohen examines this case as part of a larger ideological debate raging in hospitals everywhere: how should the dying and suffering be treated? | ||
03 / 4
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Wildly acclaimed novelist Katharine Weber (Triangle, The Music Lesson) returns with a novel about the daughter of a repressed New England family who tries to mold herself into the model Jewish wife when she marries into the Ziplinskys, owners of Zip’s Candies. Says the New York Times: “True Confections is a great American tale.” Also: free candy! | ||
03 / 5
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03 / 6
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Judith Warner (Perfect Madness; the columnist of the New York Times’ “Domestic Disturbances”) spoke with a cross section of parents, psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, researchers, and therapists over the course of five years to find out how meds are affecting our children. The enlightening result is a wake-up call. | ||
03 / 7
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03 / 8
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
The Brookline Booksmith Book Club has been sharing great books for 10 years. It meets on the 2nd Monday of each month, at 7:30 pm in our Writer's and Reader's Room. No need to sign up, just show up. | ||
03 / 9
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Nancy Kehoe is a nun and psychology clinician. In her first book, she makes a compelling argument for faith as a means to make decisions and order one’s life. With great empathy, she shares stories of the troubled people she has helped and writes of the way religious feeling has shaped her own choices. “Remarkable,” says Cokie Roberts. A free event presented with and at Temple Kehillath Israel (384 Harvard Street, Brookline) | ||
03 / 10
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
“Sam Lipsyte can get blood out of a stone” – Edmund White. If the Booksmith has prayers, they’ve been answered; the funniest writer in America is coming to Brookline. Sam Lipsyte (Home Land, Venus Drive) has written his third novel, The Ask, a screed against university development, capitalism, artistic leanings, and the middle classes. Après Lipsyte, le déluge. | ||
03 / 11
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
**VENUE CHANGE** | ||
03 / 12
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03 / 13
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03 / 14
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03 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Have you ever wanted to write nonfiction? Learn how at Booksmith’s first-ever writing workshop! Billerica-based writing coach Sherry Ellis (Now Write, Illuminating Fiction) celebrates the release of her latest writing guide, Now Write! Nonfiction with a writing class. Joining her will be fellow teachers Hershman and Cohen. During this workshop you will have the opportunity to start some of the writing exercises included in the book. | ||
03 / 16
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03 / 17
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Follow Stanford professor Elif Batuman as she visits Tolstoy's estate to investigate a possible murder and loses Isaac Babel's family at the airport. Batuman (Harper’s, The New Yorker, LRB and n+1) has literally walked a mile in the footsteps of her heroes in a sharp, funny, personal literary history that takes us from California to the Caucasus. | ||
