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January 2003
January 8 6pm	Nicholas Basbanes Among the Gently Mad Henry Holt in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public click here for more information about the event
January 15 6pm	Alice McDermott Child of My Heart Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Dec 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public click here for more information about the event
January 16 6pm	Randall Kennedy Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Pantheon Books (Jan 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk. click here for more information about the event
January 21 6pm	Jay Cantor Great Neck Alfred A. Knopf (Jan 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public click here for more information about the event
January 22 6pm	Daniel Goleman Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama Bantam Books (Jan 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk. click here for more information about the event
January 23 6pm	Joyce Hackett Disturbance of the Inner Ear Carroll & Graf Publishers (Oct 2002) Harvard Info Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Mass. Ave, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk. click here for more information about the event
January 27 6pm	Susan Vreeland Girl In Hyacinth Blue Penguin Books (Oct 2000) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk. Event Extra: An advance screening of the full length Hallmark movie "Brush with Fate," based on Girl in Hyacinth Blue.
January 29 6pm	Joao Magueijo Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation Perseus Publishing (Jan 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk. Event Extra: A cocktail reception following the signing in the lobby of the Sackler Museum, sponsored by SEED magazine.
January 30 6pm	bell hooks Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem Atria Books (Jan 2003) Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
January 31 6pm	Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies W. W. Norton & Company (Apr. 1999) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
February 2003
February 4 6pm	Amy Chua World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Violence and Global Instability Doubleday Books (Dec. 2002) Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk. click here for more information about the event
February 4 6pm ASKWITH FORUM	Nikki Giovanni Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems William Morrow & Company (Nov. 2002) Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall 13 Appian Way free and open to public Cosponsored by the Harvard University Graduate Department of Education
February 5 6pm	Pico Ilyer Abandon Alfred A. Knopf (Jan. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
February 5 4pm Black Writer's Reading Series	Andrea Lee Interesting Women: Stories Random House Trade (Apr. 2003) andJamaica Kincaid Mr. Potter Farrar Straus Giroux (Jun. 2003) Barker Center, Thompson Room Quincy Street free and open to public Cosponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University
February 7 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Lizabeth Cohen A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America Alfred A. Knopf (Jan. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public click here for more information about the event
February 11 3:30pm Event Updated	Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness Houghton Mifflin Company (Jan. 2003) Bell Hall in the Belfer Building, JFK School 79 JFK Street free and open to public
February 11 6pm	Duncan J. Watts Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age W. W. Norton & Company (Feb. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public Cosponsored by the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
February 12 4pm Black Writer's Reading Series	Zadie Smith The Autograph Man Random House (Oct. 2002) and Caryl Phillips A New World Order: Essays Vintage Books USA (May 2002) Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy Steet free and open to public Cosponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University
February 13 6pm	Aminatta Forna The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest Atlantic Monthly Press (Jan. 2003) Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge free and open to public Cosponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University
February 13 6pm	Brian Hall I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark Viking Books (Jan. 2003) Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
February 14 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	J. Allan Hobson Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep Oxford University Press (Jan. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
February 18 6pm Due to the winter storm, this event has been cancelled	Bernard Bailyn To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders Alfred A. Knopf (Jan. 2003) Emerson Hall, Room 305 25 Quincy Street free and open to public
February 19 4pm Black Writer's Reading Series	Helen E. Lee Water Marked Scribner Book Company (Jul. 1999) and Randall Kenan A Visitation of Spirits Vintage Books USA (Feb. 2000) Carpenter Center, Room B-04 24 Quincy Street free and open to public Cosponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University
February 20 6pm	Nathaniel Bellows On This Day HarperCollins Publishers (Feb. 2003) Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
February 21 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Paul Osterman Gathering Power: The Future of Progressive Politics in America Beacon Press (Jan. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
February 25 6pm	Antonio Damasio Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Human Brain Harcourt (Feb. 2003) Longfellow Building, Askwith Hall 13 Appian Way, Cambridge free and open to public
February 26 4pm Black Writer's Reading Series	Edwidge Danticat The Farming of Bones Penguin Books (Sept. 1999) and Colson Whitehead John Henry Days Anchor (UK) (May 2002) Barker Center, Thompson Room 24 Quincy Street free and open to public Cosponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University
February 26 6pm	Jonathan Shay Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming Scribner Book Company (Nov. 2002) Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street free and open to public
February 28 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Martha Minow Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law and Repair Princeton University Press (Jan. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
March 2003
March 4 6pm ASKWITH FORUM	Daniel Dennett Freedom Evolves Viking Press (Feb. 2003) Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall 13 Appian Way free and open to public
March 5 6pm	Karl Haglund Inventing the Charles River MIT Press (Dec. 2002) Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
March 5 5 pm Black Writer's Reading Series	Rita Dove Selected Poems Random House (Sept. 1993) and John Edgar Wideman Hoop Roots Houghton-Mifflin(February 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge free and open to public Cosponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University
March 6 6pm	George Johnson A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to a Quantum Computer Alfred A. Knopf (Feb. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
March 7 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Jennifer Hochschild The American Dream and the Public Schools Oxford University Press (Feb. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
March 12 4 pm Black Writer's Reading Series	Elizabeth Alexander Antebellum Dream Book Graywolf (Oct. 1991) and Suzan-Lori Parks Topdog Underdog Consortium (June 2001) Carpenter Center, Room B-04 24 Quincy St., Cambridge free and open to public Cosponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University
March 12 6:00pm	Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx Scribner Book Company (Feb. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
March 13 3:30-5:00pm	Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America Cornell University Press (Sept. 2002) Belfer Building, Bell Hall 79 JFK Street free and open to public
March 13 6pm	James Kugel The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible Free Press (Mar. 2003) Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
March 14 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Dean Grodzins American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism University of North Carolina Press (Nov. 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
March 18 6pm	John Spalding A Pilgrim's Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City Harmony (Mar. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
March 19 4 pm Black Writer's Reading Series	Maryse Conde Segu Penguin (Sept, 1996) and Darryl Pinckney Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature Basic (June 2002) and Patricia Powell The Pagoda Harcourt (Nov. 1999) Barker Center, Thompson Room 24 Quincy Street free and open to public Cosponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University
March 20 6pm	Harold Bloom Hamlet: Poem Unlimited Riverhead Books (Mar. 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
March 21 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Barry Mazur Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen) Farrar Straus Giroux (Feb. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
March 25 6pm	Jon Boorstin The Newsboys' Lodging-House: Or the Confessions of William James Viking Books (Mar. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
March 27 7:30 pm	Leon Golub Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun Harvard University Press (Oct. 2002) Phillips Auditorium at the Harvard University Observatory 60 Garden Street, Cambridge free and open to public
April 2003
April 1 6pm	Melissa Fay Greene Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster Harcourt (April 2003) Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
April 2 6pm	William Taubman Krushchev: The Man and His Era W. W. Norton & Company (Mar. 2003) A panel discussion with Mark Kramer, Director of the Harvard Cold War Studies Project and editor of the Journal on Cold War Studies, and Timothy Colton, Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, and moderated by Joseph Nye, Dean of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
April 4 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	In Celebration of National Poetry Month Helen Vendler Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath Harvard University Press (Jan. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
April 7 6pm ASKWITH FORUM	David B. Tyack and Larry Cuban Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform Harvard University Press (1997) Gutman Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education 6 Appian Way free and open to public
April 10 6pm	Eleanor DeLorme Josephine: Napoleon's Incomparable Empress Abrams (Oct. 2002) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
April 11 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	In Celebration of National Poetry Month Bonnie Costello Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry Harvard University Press (Mar. 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
April 12 10am - 6pm	In Celebration of National Poetry Month Poetry at Radcliffe Conference Featuring Robin Becker, Sophie Cabot Black, Lorna Goodison, Jorie Graham, Fanny Howe, Mary Karr, Maxine Kumin, Florence Ladd, Gail Mazur, Brenda Shaughnessy, Natasha Trethewey, and C.D. Wright First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden St., Cambridge For more information and to reserve a seat, click here.
April 14 6pm ASKWITH FORUM	Seymour Bernard Sarason and Katherine C. Boles Educational Reform: A Self-Scrutinizing Memoir Teachers College Press (July, 2002) and Who's Teaching Your Children? Why the Teaching Crisis is Worse Than You Think and What You Can Do About It Yale University Press (Mar. 2003) Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall 13 Appian Way free and open to public
April 15 6:30pm	Simon Winchester Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 HarperCollins (April 2003) Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
April 15 6pm	In Celebration of National Poetry Month Robert Pinsky Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry Princeton University Press (Oct. 2002) and Maggie Dietz Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology Norton (June, 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
April 17 6pm	Chet Raymo The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe Walker & Co. (April 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
April 18 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Kate Phillips Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life University of California Press (March 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
April 22 6pm	Todd Gitlin Letters to a Young Activist Basic Books (April 2003) Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
April 23 6pm	William Dalrymple White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India Viking (April 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
April 25 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Michael Albert PARECON: Life After Capitalism Verso (April 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
April 29 6pm	Paul Elie The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage Farrar, Straus & Giroux (April 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
April 30 6pm	Nina Revoyer Southland Akashic Books (April 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
May 2003
May 1 6pm	Iris Chang The Chinese in America: A Narrative History Viking (May 2003) Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall 13 Appian Way free and open to public
May 1 6pm	Granta Magazine editor Ian Jack introduces Andrew O'Hagan, Zadie Smith and Alan Warner Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, 2003 Granta Magazine (May 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
May 2 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Lawrence Buell Emerson Harvard University Press (April 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
May 6 6pm ASKWITH FORUM	Diane Ravitch The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn Knopf (May 2003) Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall 13 Appian Way free and open to public
May 7 6pm	Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Houghton Mifflin (May 2003) First Parish Church 3 Church Street (on the corner of Mass Ave. and Church St.) free and open to public
May 8 6pm	Ross Terrill The New Chinese Empire: Beijing's Political Dilemma and What It Means for the United States Basic Books (April 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
May 9 6pm	Jane Smiley Good Faith Knopf (April 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
May 9 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Tom Simons, Jr. Islam in a Globalizing World Stanford University Press (May 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
May 13 6pm	Douglass Shand-Tucci The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture St. Martin's (May 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
May 13 4:15pm	Marshall I. Goldman The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry Routledge (Aug. 2003) and Richard Pipes The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia Yale University Press (Apr. 2003) Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies 625 Massachusetts Ave, Seminar Room 3 free and open to public To learn more click here.
May 14 6pm	Erica Jong Sappho's Leap Norton (May 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
May 15 6pm	A Tribute to Caroline Knapp featuring reading from and discussion of her new, posthumously published book Appetites: Why Women Want Counterpoint Press (May 2003) Speakers include Gail Galdwell, Boston Globe book reviewer, Sandy Shea, former Boston Phoenix editor, Rebecca Knapp, Caroline's twin sister, Maureen Dezell, Boston writer, and Beth Wolfensberger Singer, former Boston Globe editor Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
May 20 6pm	Alan Chong The Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Beacon Press (April 2003) Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
May 21 6pm	Joseph O'Connor Star of the Sea Harcourt (May 2003) Boston Public Library Mezzanine Conference Room 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
May 22 6pm	Jonathan Schell The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People Metropolitan Books (May 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
June 2003
June 3 6pm	James Gleick Isaac Newton Pantheon (May 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
June 4 6pm	Paul Theroux Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town Houghton Mifflin (March 2003) Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
June 10 6pm	Steve Jones Y: The Descent of Men Houghton Mifflin (May 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
June 11 6pm	Calvin Trillin Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco Random House (May 2003) Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
June 12 6pm	Sidney Blumenthal The Clinton Wars Farrar, Straus & Giroux (May 2003) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
June 17 6pm	Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley Basic Civitas (May 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
June 19 6pm	Elaine Scarry Who Defended the Country?: A New Democracy Forum on Authoritarian Versus Democratic Approaches to National Defense on 9/11 Beacon Press (May 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave. free and open to public
July 2003
July 1 7pm	Jake Halpern Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales Houghton Mifflin Company (July 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue free and open to public
September 2003
September 16 6pm	Mark Zanger The American History Cookbook Greenwood Press (April 2003) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue free and open to public
September 17 6pm	Tracy Kidder Mountains Beyond Mountains Random House (September 2003) Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall 13 Appian Way free and open to public
September 18 7pm	Tom Frank, Dave Mulcahey and Josh Glenn Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy W. W. Norton & Company (August 2003) Project 45/ Foundation for Civic Leadership 45 Mt. Auburn Street free and open to public
September 18 6pm ASKWITH FORUM	Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein Better Together: Restoring the American Community Simon & Schuster (September 2003) Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall 13 Appian Way free and open to public


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