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September

Wednesday, September 3rd 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

JUNOT DIAZ

reads from

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

 SOLD OUT!

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Thursday, September 4th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON

discusses

Ahead of the Curve:

Two Years at Harvard Business School

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Friday, September 5th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

Debut novelists

RANDA JARRAR

and PADMA VISWANATHAN 

read from

A Map of Home

and The Toss of a Lemon 

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Monday, September 8th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

PAUL AUSTER

reads from

Man in the Dark

 

$5 tickets on sale now.

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Tuesday, September 9th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

FRANK WILCZEK

evokes

The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether,

and the Unification of Forces

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Wednesday, September 10th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

MAUREEN N. McLANE

reads from

Same Life: Poems

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Thursday, September 11th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

LUCY McCAULEY presents

The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008:

True Stories from Around the World

 

A panel discussion with contributors.

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Friday, September 12th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

 
"Cambridge Local First" 
Winedown
  
in support of locally owned,
independent businesses in our community 

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Monday, September 15th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

discusses


Violence: Big Ideas / Small Books

 $5 tickets go on sale Mon., August 25th.

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Tuesday, September 16th 6:00 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

BRIAN GREENE

discusses

Icarus at the Edge of Time

 

$5 tickets go on sale Tues., August 26th.

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Wednesday, September 17th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

KERRY KENNEDY

presents

Being Catholic Now:

Prominent Americans Talk About Change

and the Quest for Meaning 

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Wednesday, September 17th 7:30 PM
@ Harvard Book Store, Lower Level

The Philosophy Café

at Harvard Book Store

 

"Mental vs. Physical:

Does Folk Metaphysics Get It Right?" 

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Thursday, September 18th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

MARION NESTLE

discusses

Pet Food Politics:

The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine 

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Thursday, September 18th 7:30 PM
@ First Parish Church Meetinghouse

Cambridge Forum

LYNN MARGULIS

reads from

 

Luminous Fish:

Tales of Science and Love

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Friday, September 19th 3:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

Friday Forum

ROBERT COLES

and ALBERT LaFARGE

present

 

Minding the Store:

Great Literature About Business 

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Friday, September 19th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

ANNETTE GORDON-REED

portrays

The Hemingses of Monticello:

An American Family

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Saturday, September 20th 7:00 PM
@ First Parish Church Meetinghouse

NEAL STEPHENSON

unveils 

Anathem

$5 tickets go on sale Fri., August 29th.

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Monday, September 22nd 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

PAUL THEROUX

boards 

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star:

On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

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Tuesday, September 23rd 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

DAVID EBERSHOFF

reads from

The 19th Wife: A Novel

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Wednesday, September 24th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

DUBRAVKA UGRESIC

reads from

Nobody's Home: Essays

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Thursday, September 25th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

JOHN ZOGBY

discusses

The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the

Dramatic Changes Transforming the American Dream

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Friday, September 26th 3:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

Friday Forum

ANDREW BACEVICH

discusses

The Limits of Power:

The End of American Exceptionalism

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Friday, September 26th 6:00 PM
@ Charles Hotel

"Human Nature and the

Need for Social Connection" 

 

a panel discussion with

JOHN T. CACIOPPO, Mazharin Banaji,

Nancy Kanwisher, and Stephen Kosslyn

 

R.S.V.P. at connection@harvardsquarebookstore.com

to reserve a place. 

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Monday, September 29th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

Book Discussion

The Harvard Square Book Circle

will discuss

Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China

by Peter Hessler

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Monday, September 29th 7:01 PM
@ Brattle Theatre

 MATT WEILAND, ALISON BECHDEL (Vt.),

and TONY HORWITZ (Va.)

present

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America

PLUS: A screening of Out of the Book's

 film by the same name

 

$10 tickets go on sale Tues., Sept. 9th.

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Tuesday, September 30th 7:00 PM
@ Harvard Book Store

WILLIAM CORBETT

reads from his new collection of poems


Opening Day

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