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Sam Lipsyte - The Ask

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:03:38 -0500

Start: Wed, 03/10/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Wed, 03/10/2010 - 9:00pm

“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.

Small Beer Press presents: A Fundraiser to Benefit Franciscan Hospital for Children w/Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, & Kelly Link

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:04:20 -0500

Start: Thu, 03/11/2010 - 6:00pm

End: Thu, 03/11/2010 - 8:00pm

**VENUE CHANGE**
Now in the Writers' & Readers' Room at the Brookline Booksmith
Tickets required - $5 - available 2/1/10

Now Write! Nonfiction Write-in with Sherry Ellis, Leah Cohen,& Marcie Hershman

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:29:56 -0500

Start: Mon, 03/15/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Mon, 03/15/2010 - 9:00pm

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.
Bring paper and pen!

Elif Batuman - The Possessed

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:39:48 -0500

Start: Wed, 03/17/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Wed, 03/17/2010 - 9:00pm

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.

An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:45:17 -0500

Start: Thu, 03/18/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Thu, 03/18/2010 - 9:00pm

Ugly Duckling is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit art and publishing collective.

The Breakwater Reading Series

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:46:57 -0500

Start: Fri, 03/19/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Fri, 03/19/2010 - 9:00pm

The Breakwater Reading Series features fiction, non-fiction and poetry by writers from UMass-Boston and Emerson College MFA programs. Join us on the third Friday each month to hear these extraordinary emerging voices. For more information, please contact Angela: breakwater.reading@gmail.com

Clea Simon -- Grey Matters

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:49:54 -0500

Start: Tue, 03/23/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Tue, 03/23/2010 - 9:00pm

Local mystery maven Clea Simon’s second Dulcie Schwartz mystery picks up a few months after the end of Shades of Grey. Harvard doctoral student Dulcie Schwartz finds the body of a fellow graduate student on her adviser’s front step. The ghost of Mr. Grey, her deceased cat, returns to offer his usual cryptic advice, leaving Dulcie to try to find the real murderer before the killer finds her.

Sonya Chung - Long for This World

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:51:51 -0500

Start: Thu, 03/25/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Thu, 03/25/2010 - 9:00pm

Sonya Chung teaches writing at NYU and the Gotham Writer’s Workshop. Long for This World centers around a Korean family in America. Kate Walbert calls it "an intricately structured and powerfully resonant portrait of lives lived at the crossroads of culture, and a family torn between the old world and the new… a powerful debut from a young writer of great talent and promise."

David Shields - Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:54:37 -0500

Start: Mon, 03/29/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Mon, 03/29/2010 - 9:00pm

Memoirist (The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, Enough About You), sportswriter (Body Politic, Baseball Is Just Baseball) novelist (A Handbook for Drowning, Dead Languages) and Guggenheim Fellow David Shields will visit Booksmith in honor of his latest work, Reality Hunger, that left Jonathan Lethem “astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed.”

Christopher Moore – Bite Me

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:52:03 -0500

Start: Fri, 04/02/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Fri, 04/02/2010 - 9:00pm

The man The Onion calls “the thinking man’s Dave Barry” returns with the third and final installment of his Bloodsucking Fiends trilogy. Christopher Moore (Lamb, Fool, The Stupidest Angel) brings his patented brand of socially incisive tomfoolery to a story about an accidental vampire, his mistress, and an enormous cat.

Susan Senator – The Autism Mom’s Survival Guide

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:05:37 -0500

Start: Tue, 04/06/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Tue, 04/06/2010 - 9:00pm

Writer, activist and mother Susan Senator – author of Making Peace With Autism – has written about autism for the Globe, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Her new book shares the stories of parents of autistic children to instruct and inspire, drawing upon Senator’s own experience of finding joy in the midst of great struggle.

Anne Lamott – Imperfect Birds

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:16:35 -0500

Start: Wed, 04/07/2010 - 6:00pm

End: Wed, 04/07/2010 - 8:00pm

Few other writers – if any – are as beloved as Anne Lamott. The author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies will visit Brookline to read from her forthcoming novel, Imperfect Birds, that Martin Cruz Smith calls “a heartbreak and a heart-mender."

At the Coolidge Corner Theatre - You can pick up your FREE tickets at the Booksmith or reserve them over the phone on April 1st. Limit 2 per customer.