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From the inbox: Brookline Booksmith is pleased to announce that broadcasting legend Barbara Walters will be appearing at your favorite local independent bookstore on Thursday, May 22nd at 7pm. She will be signing copies of her best-selling book Audition...
Over at Omnivoracious , hosted by Amazon.com. Only one post is up so far and it's annoyingly music-centric. Why all the flashing lights and filler for your readings, James Frey? Why can't you just get up there and, um, READ? We have grown grumpy...
Sometimes, alt-weekly dreams really do come true! Remember back in November, when we were obsessing over Sloane Crosley , Vintage/Anchor book publicist extraordinaire, who had a much-hyped , uber-blurbed book of personal essays coming out this spring...
“The world is getting hotter, the ice caps are melting, because man keeps saying to nature, Hey, our whole idea of a cozy future is to have jobs. That’s all we’ve got planned. What’s more, we will pursue this aim at any cost, even, paradoxically, if it...
Editor DAVID FOSTER WALLACE lead a formidable group of contributors in a discussion of this year's answer to The Best American Essays . And tonight, Elaine Scarry, Jerald Walker, and Robert Atwan will bring their work to the reading stage. So if you've...
Thanks to Brookline Booksmith for hosting the Nick Hornby reading Just to make sure, we decided to wait until the Curse of the Hornbino had been demolished by Your 2007 Boston Red Sox before posting the rest of Nick Hornby's Q&A at the Devotion...
Tonight! Steve Almond, Laura Dave, and editor Jenni Ferarri-Adler read from Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone . Twenty-six writers (including Nora Ephron, Ann Patchett, and Haruki Murakami) reflect...
TREVOR CORSON has a thing for sea life. His first book, The Secret Life of Lobsters , began as an essay in The Best American Science Writing . Now, he’s turning his attention from Maine crustaceans to “the fast food of Old Tokyo” with The Zen of Fish...
We first became enthralled by Audacia Ray’s new book because it boasted a cover with numerical code arranged in the form of an ass. Bloody brilliant, if you ask us. Of course, the inside worked for us as well. Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads...
Brookline Booksmith hosts a double bill with both ANDREW O’HAGAN and CLAIRE MESSUD reading from their fourth novels. The Scottish-born O’Hagan’s Be Near Me is narrated by David Anderton, an Oxford-educated Catholic priest who obtains a parish near his...
AMY FUSSELMAN was raped by her babysitter’s husband when she was four years old. In 8: A Memoir , she forgoes describing the violation in favor of chronicling the snowballing fallout it had on every aspect of her life. Her debut, The Pharmacist’s Mate...
Given all the books on Princess Di in the pipeline for next season, it seems fitting that Salon founder DAVID TALBOT has gone against the grain to focus on America’s version of a royal family. Brothers: A Hidden History of the Kennedy Years is an in-depth...
We’ve had our eye on writer-on-the-verge NATHAN ENGLANDER since devouring his debut short-story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (click for an excerpt). Englander, a former Orthodox Jew, travels from Jerusalem to read and sign copies of...
Three young writers are forgoing good manners and decent content tonight for “ BAD BEHAVIOR 2007 .” JAMI ATTENBERG ( Instant Love ), JANICE ERLBAUM ( Girlbomb, A Halfway Homeless Memoir ), and WENDY MCCLURE ( I’m Not the New Me ) have highlighted the...
WHAT IS THIS THING? A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love is BEN GREENMAN ’s third book, and this New Yorker staffer has chosen the most wonderful and infuriating of human emotions for his muse. The current editor of “Goings...
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