http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/ en Copyright 2012 Thu, 24 May 2012 07:42:05 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss TUESDAY: Justin Halpern (“I Suck at Girls”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Richard Russo and Kate Russo (“Interventions”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Rd., Newton Centre WEDNESDAY: John Palfrey and Urs Gasser... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/05/greater_boston_30.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/05/greater_boston_30.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 24 May 2012 07:42:05 -0500 SUNDAY:: Lynda Mullaly Hunt (“One for the Murphys”) reads at 2 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Andrew Goldstein ("The Bookie's Son") reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord MONDAY: Walter Isaacson (“Steve Jobs”) reads at... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/05/greater_boston_29.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/05/greater_boston_29.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 17 May 2012 08:42:24 -0500 SUNDAY: Meg Mitchell Moore (“So Far Away”) reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord MONDAY: Ann Packer (“Swim Back to Me”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Beatrice Peltre (“La Tartine Gourmande:... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/05/greater_boston_28.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/05/greater_boston_28.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 10 May 2012 07:48:10 -0500 SUNDAY: Jay Atkinson ("Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord … Matthew Pearl (“The Technologists”) speaks at 4 p.m., at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset … MONDAY: Adam... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/05/greater_boston_27.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/05/greater_boston_27.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 03 May 2012 10:57:36 -0500 SUNDAY: David A. Kelley (“The Astro Outlaw”) reads at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre … April Bernard ("Miss Fuller") reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop MONDAY: Siobhan Fallon ("You Know When the Men are Gone") reads... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/greater_boston_26.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/greater_boston_26.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:12:48 -0500 SUNDAY: Raymond Sinbaldi (“Fenway Park, Massachusetts”) reads at 1 p.m. at Boston University’s Barnes and Noble … Matt Tavares ("There Goes Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived") reads at 3 p.m. at the Griffin Museum of Photography,... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/greater_boston_25.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/greater_boston_25.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:04:36 -0500 The 2012 award for general nonfiction went to “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt’s enchanting, expansive explication of the ancient poet Lucretius’ influence on modernity. “The Swerve” also won the 2011 National Book Award. The... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/pulitzer_winner.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/pulitzer_winner.html Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:59:44 -0500 SUNDAY: Rose A. Lewis and Jen Corace (“Sweet Dreams”) read at 11 a.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Dawn Tripp ("The Season of Open Water") reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop … Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (“By... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/greater_boston_24.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/greater_boston_24.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:19:21 -0500 MONDAY: Tayari Jones (“Silver Sparrow”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St. … Richard Johnson (“Field of Our Fathers”) reads at 6 p.m. at the South Boston Branch of the... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/greater_boston_23.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/greater_boston_23.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:29:41 -0500 By Michael Washburn Nobody would claim that the “Choose Your Adventure” books popular in the 1980s were great art, but these books were a great idea. Before you can become a book lover – so before you can condescend to... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/california-base.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/04/california-base.html Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:28:27 -0500 By Michael Washburn “We have come at a most interesting time,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in a February1953 letter to his friend Gianfranco Ivancich, relaying the rather callous observation of some literary tourists who had dropped by Hemingway’s house in Cuba... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/unpublished_hem.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/unpublished_hem.html Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:55:16 -0500 SUNDAY: Mo Willems (“The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?”) reads at 10:30 a.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at 617-566-6660) … Kevin Walsh (“Follow the Dog Home”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Wellesley Free Library … Sally Cragin,... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/greater_boston_22.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/greater_boston_22.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:45:30 -0500 SUNDAY: Natalie Dykstra (“Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life”) at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop … Chris Matthews (“Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero”) reads at 5 p.m. at Porter Square Books … MONDAY: Louis Begley (“Schmidt Steps Back”) reads 7... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/greater_boston_21.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/greater_boston_21.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:14:23 -0500 SUNDAY: John G. Funchion (“Move the Sock Hole Over”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Peabody Institute Library-Danvers, 15 Sylvan St., Danvers … Madeline Miller (“Song of Achilles”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main Street, Concord MONDAY:... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/greater_boston_20.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/greater_boston_20.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction pbnonfiction Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:49:18 -0500 By Michael Washburn, Globe Correspondent Edith Pearlman’s collection of short stories "Binocular Vision'' was awarded the National Book Critic’s Circle 2011 fiction award at a ceremony on Manhattan Thursday night. Pearlman, a Brookline resident, has long been considered a “writer’s... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/pearlman_wins_b.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2012/03/pearlman_wins_b.html childrens hcfiction hcnonfiction pbfiction Edith Pearlman and Maya Jasanoff and Mira Bartok and National Book Critic’s Circle awards Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:33:16 -0500