Join us as we host two
journalists who have delved deep into hidden subcultures. In Leaving
Mundania\, the editor of Fringe literary journal Lizzie Stark hacks her way into the
magical realm of live-action role-playing\, where normal people shed their
business suits to don armor and robes for extravagant\, gigantic games of
make-believe.
In The Cornbread
Mafia\, journalist James Higdon exposes the
legacy and legal battles surrounding the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate
in American history. With unprecedented access into this secretive group\,
Higdon examines the hidden side of the war on drugs.
Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights\, Three Nights in August) is the father of twin boys who couldn’t be more different\: Gerry is a grad student at Penn\; Zach is a savant\, challenged by serious intellectual deficits but blessed with rare talents. Realizing that he’s never understood what it’s like to be his son\, Buzz hits the road with Zach on a trip through the best and worst parts of America and learns to see his son for what he is\: a man of great character. Susan Orlean calls it “a triumph.”
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120519T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120519T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/breakwater-reading-series-12 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/breakwater-reading-series-12 SUMMARY:Breakwater Reading Series DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of new fiction\, poetry\, and essays from the MFA candidates of Emerson\, UMASS Boston\, and BU. For more information\, please visit breakwaterreadingseries.blogspot.com.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/teresa-giudice-fabulicious-fast-fit-signing-only URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/teresa-giudice-fabulicious-fast-fit-signing-only SUMMARY:Teresa Giudice - Fabulicious! Fast & Fit (Signing Only) DESCRIPTION:You must purchase a copy of Fabulicious Fast &\; Fit at the Booksmith to enter the signing line.
The Star of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey\, Celebrity Apprentice contestant\, and best-selling author Teresa Giudice swings by the Booksmith to share her new book of the authentic\, healthy Italian recipes that she uses to stay “fabulicious” after four kids and nearly 40 years.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/rory-o%E2%80%99connor-friends-followers-and-future-how-social-media-are-changing-politics-threatening- URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/rory-o%E2%80%99connor-friends-followers-and-future-how-social-media-are-changing-politics-threatening- SUMMARY:Rory O’Connor - Friends\, Followers and the Future\: How Social Media are Changing Politics\, Threatening Big Brands\, and Killing Traditional Media DESCRIPTION:The winner of two Emmys and a George Orwell Award\, Rory O’Connor is a journalist\, author\, filmmaker\, entrepreneur and media watchdog. In his new book\, he discusses how sites like Facebook and Twitter are changing the world in which we live\, from the Arab Spring to Wikileaks to Rebecca Black.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/dan-zevin-dan-gets-minivan-life-intersection-dude-and-dad URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/dan-zevin-dan-gets-minivan-life-intersection-dude-and-dad SUMMARY:Dan Zevin - Dan Gets a Minivan\: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad DESCRIPTION:Dan Zevin (Entry-Level Life\, The Day I Turned Uncool) is the least hip citizen of Brooklyn—a stay-at-home dad with two small children\, an obese Labrador mutt\, and a minivan. But how he got there is a bit of a blur. Join us as Zevin\, a humor writer for NPR\, Boston Magazine\, The Boston Phoenix\, and Rolling Stone among others\, shares his own hilarious story of slouching reluctantly towards middle-age.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120530T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120530T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/justin-halpern-i-suck-girls URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/justin-halpern-i-suck-girls SUMMARY:Justin Halpern - I Suck at Girls DESCRIPTION:When the NYT best-selling author of Sh*t My Dad Says\, Justin Halpern\, tells his father that he’s going to propose to his girlfriend\, the initial response is characteristically blunt\: “You’ve been dating her for four years. It ain’t like you found a parallel f***ing universe.” But when his father tells him to think back on everything he knows about women first\, what emerges is a hilariously awkward litany of un-luck in love\, from his disastrous childhood crushes to the night he lost his virginity working as a dishwasher at Hooters.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120601T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120601T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/john-fox-ball URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/john-fox-ball SUMMARY:John Fox - The Ball DESCRIPTION:One object unites the Red Sox with Rafael Nadal\, the Patriots with Pelé. In this amazing new history\, anthropologist John Fox visits overgrown courts in Mexico and medieval villages\, schoolyards and modern stadiums to answer one question\: why do we play ball? Part history\, part travelogue\, in the tradition of Bill Bryson and Mark Kurlansky\, Fox unravels the fascinating story behind the object that serves as the basis of our sports and our games.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120603T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120603T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/YAauthorpanel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/YAauthorpanel SUMMARY:YA Debut Author Panel Featuring Elisa Ludwig\, EM Danforth\, Gina Damico\, AC Gaughen\, EC Meyers\, & Jessica Spotswood. DESCRIPTION:In this one-of-a-kind reading\, we bring you six debut YA novelists with books guaranteed to make those long summer months fly. Come hear the authors of Pretty Crooked\, The Miseducation of Cameron Post\, Croak\,
Scarlet\, Fair Coin\, and Born Wicked as they spin their YA yarns and talk about writing.
Mother and daughter Cynthia and Meira Levinson share their new books on how civic involvement among kids and teens can change the world. In We’ve Got A Job\, Cynthia Levinson tells the story of the Children’s March in Birmingham\, Alabama\, when kids and teens flooded the streets and the jails of the city to fight segregation. In No Citizen Left Behind\, Meira Levinson draws on her experience teaching in an all-black Atlanta school to make a case for education reform aimed at civic involvement and closing the “civic empowerment gap” that divides black and white students.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120605T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120605T230000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/doron-weber-immortal-bird-coolidge URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/doron-weber-immortal-bird-coolidge SUMMARY:Doron Weber - Immortal Bird (At the Coolidge) DESCRIPTION:Doron Weber's eldest son\, Damon\, was born with a single ventricle in his heart but kept alive by a complicated operation. At age twelve\, he was told he had another five to ten years to live. In this tender\, beautifully written memoir\, Doron Weber chronicles the last years of Damon's life and his tireless fight to save his son.
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Tickets are free and available at the Booksmith. Call 617.566.6660.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120607T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120607T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jay-ocallahan-harrys-our-man URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jay-ocallahan-harrys-our-man SUMMARY:Jay O'Callahan - Harry's Our Man DESCRIPTION:Professional storyteller Jay O'Callahan has performed all over the world\, for organizations such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra\, NASA\, and NPR. In his novelistic debut\, Harry's Our Man\, it's the 1950's and Boston academic Harry Hutchinson decides to run for Congress\, spurred on by the madness of the nuclear arms race. What unfolds is the zaniest\, most bizarre\, and wild political love story you're likely to find.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120607T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120607T230000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/richard-ford-canada URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/richard-ford-canada SUMMARY:Richard Ford - Canada (At the Coolidge - Tickets Required) DESCRIPTION:To purchase tickets\, please call 617-566-6660 or drop by the Booksmith (279 Harvard St.\, Coolidge Corner\, Brookline).
First I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders\, which happened later.
In his first novel in six years\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and legend of American letters Richard Ford (Independence Day\, Rock Falls) tells the story of Dell Parson\, whose world falls apart when his seemingly normal parents are arrested for a robbery.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jenny-lawson-aka-bloggess-lets-pretend-never-happened-mostly-true-memoir URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/jenny-lawson-aka-bloggess-lets-pretend-never-happened-mostly-true-memoir SUMMARY:Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) - Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) DESCRIPTION:Award-winning blogger\, stuffed-animal enthusiast\, and confidence wig champion Jenny Lawson wants you to read her book. She wants you to come see her too. She wants you to come see her read her book\, then read her book afterwards. Here. At the Booksmith. She's going to tell (mostly true) stories about growing up with a taxidermist father and about psychopaths who stand by bathroom doors and anxiety disorders (all potentially related). Nathan Fillion may come too (but probably not).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T210000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/big-class-boston-launch-party URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/big-class-boston-launch-party SUMMARY:Big Class Boston Launch Party DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the second book release for Big Class Boston\, an organization focused on connecting public school students with creative adults through collaborative book projects. Featuring original short stories by a group of Teen Advantage students from the Steps to Success after-school program and illustrations by artists from the Boston area\, this book demonstrates the power of creative collaboration.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120611T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120611T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/Lizz-Winstead URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/Lizz-Winstead SUMMARY:Lizz Winstead - Lizz Free or Die DESCRIPTION:Co-creator and former head writer of The Daily Show Lizz Winstead comes to the Booksmith to share her new book of autobiographical essays. In Lizz Free Or Die\,
she explains how she found her voice\, as a writer\, a woman\, and one of today's most insightful comedians.
Want to bring healthy\, local foods into your kitchen\, and stay on-budget too. Local chef Julia Shanks shares tips and cooks up a few treats from her new cookbook. For everyone from the greenhorn green-thumb to the longtime locavore\, The Farmer's Kitchen is the essential guide to getting the most out of the delectable summer markets.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120614T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120614T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/alan-furst-mission-paris URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/alan-furst-mission-paris SUMMARY:Alan Furst - Mission to Paris DESCRIPTION:The master of historical espionage\, Alan Furst (Night Soldiers\, Spies of the Balkans) returns to the Booksmith with a new novel of intrigue in Paris on the brink of WWII. When Nazi spies target an American film star in Paris\, it launches a chain reaction of secret agents on both sides in a silent\, but no less dangerous\, presage to the war that will soon rage across Europe.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T123733Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120615T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120615T000000Z UID:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/larry-smith-moment URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/larry-smith-moment SUMMARY:Larry Smith - The Moment DESCRIPTION:The Editor of Smith Magazine Larry Smith (Not Quite What I Was Planning\, Six Word Memoirs) joins us to share a new collection of bite-sized real-life stories from 125 writers and artists about the chances\, coincidence\, and catastrophes that changed their lives forever.
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