Events
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. | ||
03 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Ugly Duckling is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit art and publishing collective. | ||
03 / 19
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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 | ||
03 / 20
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03 / 21
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03 / 22
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03 / 23
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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. | ||
03 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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." | ||
03 / 25
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03 / 26
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03 / 27
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03 / 28
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03 / 29
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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.” | ||
03 / 30
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03 / 31
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04 / 1
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04 / 2
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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. | ||
04 / 3
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04 / 4
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04 / 5
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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. | ||
04 / 6
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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. | ||
04 / 7
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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. This event has SOLD OUT. | ||
04 / 8
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04 / 9
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04 / 10
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
*** Purchase of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang at Brookline Booksmith required - you must show your Booksmith receipt to enter the signing line. The signing line will form at 2pm. *** Chelsea Handler dared ask what was soon to become a perennial question: Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. Handler – host of “Chelsea Lately” and author of My Horizontal Life – will visit the Booksmith to sign copies of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, her latest collection of gut-busting essays. The author kindly requests that no photos be taken. | ||
04 / 11
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04 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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! | ||
04 / 13
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
The Brookline Booksmith Book Club has been sharing great books for 10 years. It normally meets on the 2nd Monday of each month, at 7:30 pm in our Writer's and Reader's Room, but in April it will meet on Tuesday, April 13 at 7:30. No need to sign up, just show up. | ||
04 / 14
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
John D’Agata teaches creative nonfiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the author of Halls of Fame, the most exciting book of essays since A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. About a Mountain follows what happens when D’Agata moves his mother to Las Vegas. Says the Los Angeles Times, “This is what, at its best, contemporary narrative nonfiction aspires to.” | ||
04 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Seth Stevenson, travel columnist for Slate.com (and the writer of its funniest business feature, the Ad Report Card) grew up right here in Brookline. Grounded, his first book, took him very far afield. As research, he traveled the world by any means necessary without ever setting foot in an airplane. What followed was adventure and wisdom. | ||
