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!
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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/evening-ugly-duckling-presse URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/evening-ugly-duckling-presse SUMMARY:An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse DESCRIPTION:Ugly Duckling is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit art and publishing collective.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/breakwater-reading-series-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/breakwater-reading-series-1 SUMMARY:The Breakwater Reading Series DESCRIPTION: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
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100324T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/clea-simon-grey-matters URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/clea-simon-grey-matters SUMMARY:Clea Simon -- Grey Matters DESCRIPTION: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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100326T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100326T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/sonya-chung-long-world URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/sonya-chung-long-world SUMMARY:Sonya Chung - Long for This World DESCRIPTION: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."\;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/david-shields-reality-hunger-manifesto URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/david-shields-reality-hunger-manifesto SUMMARY:David Shields - Reality Hunger\: A Manifesto DESCRIPTION: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.”
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/christopher-moore-%E2%80%93-bite-me URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/christopher-moore-%E2%80%93-bite-me SUMMARY:Christopher Moore – Bite Me DESCRIPTION: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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/susan-senator-%E2%80%93-autism-mom%E2%80%99s-survival-guide URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/susan-senator-%E2%80%93-autism-mom%E2%80%99s-survival-guide SUMMARY:Susan Senator – The Autism Mom’s Survival Guide DESCRIPTION: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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100408T010000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/anne-lamott-%E2%80%93-imperfect-birds URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/anne-lamott-%E2%80%93-imperfect-birds SUMMARY:Anne Lamott – Imperfect Birds DESCRIPTION: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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100410T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100410T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/molly-wizenberg-%E2%80%93-homemade-life URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/molly-wizenberg-%E2%80%93-homemade-life SUMMARY:Molly Wizenberg – A Homemade Life DESCRIPTION:Molly Wizenberg\, the woman behind the wildly popular blog Orangette\, made a name for herself by sharing her favorite recipes with stories about her life. A Homemade Life\, her New York Times bestselling memoir\, serves up a book-length portion of wit and wisdom. Join her at the Booksmith to celebrate its paperback release.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100410T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100410T220000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/chelsea-handler-%E2%80%93-chelsea-chelsea-bang-bang-signing-only URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/chelsea-handler-%E2%80%93-chelsea-chelsea-bang-bang-signing-only SUMMARY:Chelsea Handler – Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang (Signing Only) DESCRIPTION:*** Purchase of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang at Brookline Booksmith required - you must show your Booksmith receipt to enter the signing line. ***
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100315T115157Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100413T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100413T020000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/david-sax-%E2%80%93-save-deli URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/david-sax-%E2%80%93-save-deli SUMMARY:David Sax – Save the Deli DESCRIPTION:The California condor. The African elephant. The Jewish deli? Watered down or killed off by assimilation and (shudder) healthy trends\, the once-prevalent delicatessen has become an endangered species. Journalist David Sax traveled far and wide to tabulate and celebrate great Jewish delis across the land. Come hear his findings at the Booksmith with noshes courtesy of Zaftigs!
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