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 N E W S

Harvard Book Store Vice President Carole Horne went on WBUR's "The Connection", where she discussed great Christmas books with host Christopher Lydon and New York Times book reviewer Richard Eder. Click here for more information or to listen to the show.

Remembering Joseph Heller: 1923-1999

NOVEMBER

The Berkman Center for Law and Society has an audio file of a reading and a Q & A with Junot Diaz and Allegra Goodman held recently to promote BookSense.

SEPTEMBER
SIMON WINCHESTER discusses his book, The Professor and the Madman with John Simpson, the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

AUGUST
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: Only available at www.harvardsquarebookstore.com, text of a speech by one of the century's most influential economists and a shaper of United States history.

JULY
ERNEST HEMINGWAY CENTENNIAL: 100 Years of the most influential writer of the 20th Century, and the release of True At First Light. We have an interview with Patrick Hemingway and Charles Scribner about how they turned the unpublished manuscript into a finished novel, and Chuck from our buying office prepared a reading list for more information on Papa.

MAY
FROM OUR MAY NEWSLETTER: Bookseller/remainders assistant Jeni Chiu recently sat down with Gish Jen, author of Typical American and the new collection Who's Irish?. Read Jen's thoughts on life, writing, and hormones here.

Remembering Shel Silverstein 1932-1999

APRIL
Harvard Book Store was featured in a Boston Phoenix article on the future of local independent bookstores.

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