February 2014 Events
Monday Feb. 3 / 6:00pm
Erik Brynjolfsson &
Andrew McAfee
The Second Machine Age:
Work, Progress, and Prosperity in
a Time of Brilliant Technologies
in conversation with MEGHNA
CHAKRABARTI
@ Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle St.
$5 Tickets
MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew
McAfee converse with co-host of
WBUR’s Radio Boston, Meghna
Chakrabarti, on the digital revolution
and its astonishing impact on
humanity’s future.
Tuesday, Feb. 4 / 6:00pm
E.L. Doctorow
Andrew’s Brain:
A Novel
in conversation with
CHRISTOPHER LYDON
@ Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle St.
$5 Tickets
Acclaimed author of Ragtime, The
Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and
The March E. L. Doctorow reads from
his newest novel, Andrew’s Brain.
Tuesday, Feb. 4 / 7:30pm
David Kertzer
The Pope and Mussolini:
The Secret History of Pius XI and
the Rise of Fascism in Europe
in conversation with JAMES
CARROLL
@ Harvard Book Store
National Book Award finalist David
Kertzer, and scholar-in-residence
at Suffolk University James Carroll,
discuss Kertzer’s latest book, which
sheds light on the infamous alliance
between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini.
Wed., Feb. 5 / 7:00pm
Anthony M. Amore
Stealing Rembrandts:
The Untold Stories of Notorious
Art Heists
in conversation with INGRID
NEUMAN
@ First Parish Church Parish House
3 Church St.
Cambridge Forum
Wed., Feb. 5 / 7:00pm
Rachel Kushner
The Flamethrowers:
A Novel
@ Harvard Book Store
The Flamethrowers is an intensely
engaging exploration of the mystique
of the feminine, the fake, and the
terrorist from two-time National Book
Award nominee Rachel Kushner.
At its center is Kushner’s brilliantly
realized protagonist, a young woman
on the verge.
Thursday, Feb. 6 / 7:00pm
Peter Swanson
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart:
A Novel
@ Harvard Book Store
“What do you say when a woman
who broke your heart years ago and is
wanted for questioning in connection
to a murder pops back into your life
to ask a favor? If she’s as alluring as
Liana Dector, you say, ‘Yes.’ And hope
you survive . . . The Girl with a Clock
for a Heart is a twisty, sexy, electric
thrill ride.” —Dennis Lehane
Friday, Feb. 7 / 3:00pm
Howard Eiland
Walter Benjamin:
A Critical Life
Friday Forum
@ Harvard Book Store
Howard Eiland discusses the book
he co-wrote with Michael Jennings,
which makes available for the first
time a rich store of information that
augments and corrects the record of
the extraordinary life of famed literary
critic Walter Benjamin.
Friday, Feb. 7 / 7:00pm
Jennifer Senior
All Joy and No Fun:
The Paradox of Modern
Parenthood
in conversation with DANIEL
GILBERT
@ Harvard Book Store
Jennifer Senior of New York
Magazine and Daniel Gilbert,
author of Stumbling on Happiness,
discuss Senior’s examination of the
psychological effects children have on
their parents.
Monday, Feb. 10 / 6:00pm
B.J. Novak
One More Thing:
Stories and Other Stories
@ Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle St.
Tickets on sale online only
Tickets are $26 and include one
admission and one copy of One
More Thing
B.J. Novak, the writer and actor best
known for his work on NBC’s Emmy
Award-winning series The Office,
reads from One More Thing, an
endlessly entertaining, original debut
that signals the arrival of a new voice
in American fiction.
Monday, Feb. 10 / 7:00pm
Florence Ladd
The Spirit of Josephine:
A Family Reunion in Paris
@ Harvard Book Store
The author of Sarah’s Psalm, Florence
Ladd, reads from her latest novel
inspired by the life and legend of
Josephine Baker.
Tuesday, Feb. 11 / 7:00pm
Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi
Salaam, Love:
American Muslim Men on Love,
Sex, and Intimacy
@ Harvard Book Store
Following up their previous work,
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love
Lives of American Muslim Women,
Mattu and Maznavi continue their
exploration of love and intimacy in
American Muslim society, this time
with a focus on men’s lives.
Wed., Feb. 12 / 7:00pm
Maxim D. Shrayer
Leaving Russia:
A Jewish Story
@ Harvard Book Store
Boston College professor Maxim D.
Shrayer discusses his coming of age
memoir detailing his struggle to leave
his Soviet Russian homeland.
Thursday, Feb. 13 / 7:00pm
Elizabeth Kolbert
The Sixth Extinction:
An Unnatural History
@ Harvard Book Store
“Kolbert accomplishes an amazing
feat in her latest book, which
superbly blends the depressing facts
associated with rampant species
extinctions and impending ecosystem
collapse with stellar writing to produce
a text that is accessible, witty,
scientifically accurate, and impossible
to put down.”—Publishers Weekly
Friday, Feb. 14 / 7:00pm
50 Shades of Hot: A Night of
Erotica to Make You Blush
featuring readings by
JON PAPERNICK
STEVE ALMOND
& LANA FOX
@ Harvard Book Store
Join Harvard Book Store and local
Boston authors Jon Papernick, Steve
Almond, and Lana Fox this Valentine’s
Day for a look at some of their more
unrated work.
Monday, Feb. 17 / 9:00am
Presidents’ Day Sale
Our Annual Tradition:
20% off purchases in the store
and on harvardsquarebookstore.com!
@ Harvard Book Store
Tuesday, Feb. 18 / 7:00pm
Jerome Charyn
I Am Abraham:
A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil
War
@ Harvard Book Store
Award-winning author Jerome Charyn
reads from his latest novel, an
inventive narrative told from Lincoln’s
perspective in the first-person that
creates a unique portrait of our
sixteenth President.
Wed., Feb. 19 / 7:00pm
Joan Breton Connelly
The Parthenon Enigma
@ Harvard Book Store
NYU classics professor Joan Breton
Connelly explores the mystery of the
ancient structure of the Parthenon.
How much did the values of those
who built the Parthenon correspond
with our own? And what exactly did
this marvel mean to those who made
it?
Wed., Feb. 19 / 7:30pm
The Philosophy Café
Topic:
Social Progress
@ Harvard Book Store
The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book
Store is a monthly gathering meant for
the informal, relaxed, philosophical
discussion of topics of mutual interest
to participants. No particular expertise
is required to participate, only a desire
to explore philosophy and its real
world applications.
Thursday, Feb. 20 / 7:00pm
Lawrence Buell
The Dream of the Great American
Novel
@ Harvard Book Store
Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot
Professor of American Literature at
Harvard University, explores the idea
of the “great American novel” and
how this myth showcases America
as a nation perpetually under
construction.
Friday, Feb. 21 / 7:00pm
Nell Lake
The Caregivers:
A Support Group’s Stories of Slow
Loss, Courage, and Love
@ Harvard Book Store
Journalist and editor Nell Lake
discusses her book The Caregivers,
an illuminating work that highlights
the intimate exchanges between
hospital caregivers and their patients.
Monday, Feb. 24 / 7:00pm
The Harvard Square Book Circle
discusses Ron Rash’s
Serena:
A Novel
@ Harvard Book Store
Join our in-store book club for a
discussion of Ron Rash’s acclaimed
novel. Serena conjures a gothic tale of
greed, corruption, and revenge with a
ruthless, powerful woman at its heart,
set amid the wilds of 1930s North
Carolina and against the backdrop of
America’s burgeoning environmental
movement.
Tuesday, Feb. 25 / 7:00pm
danah boyd
It’s Complicated:
The Social Lives of Networked
Teens
@ Harvard Book Store
“In explaining the networked realm
of teens, boyd has the insights of
a sociologist, the eye of a reporter,
and the savvy of a technologist. For
parents puzzled about what their
kids are doing online, this is an
indispensable book.”
—Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen
Institute, author of Steve Jobs
Wed., Feb. 26 / 7:00pm
Neil Swidey
Trapped Under the Sea:
One Engineering Marvel, Five
Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles
Into the Darkness
@ Harvard Book Store
Boston Globe reporter Neil Swidey
draws on hundreds of interviews and
thousands of documents to bring
us the story of the divers who went
into the Boston Harbor to help in the
clean-up efforts during the 1990s
and the tragedy and wreckage that
followed.
Wed., Feb. 26 / 8:00pm
Jenifer Ringer
Dancing Through It:
My Journey in the Ballet
@ José Mateo Ballet Theatre |
400 Harvard St.
Jenifer Ringer, one of the principle
dancers with the New York City Ballet,
discusses her memoir and covers
the highs and lows of what it’s like to
make it to the top in the exclusive,
competitive ballet world.
Thursday, Feb. 27 / 7:00pm
The Uses of Black Political
Thought
featuring panelists
NICK BROMELL
EUGENE RIVERS
& BRANDON M. TERRY
discussing
The Time is Always Now:
Black Thought and the
Transformation of US Democracy
Co-sponsored by the Hutchins
Center for African and African
American Research and The
Boston Review
@ Harvard Book Store
Nick Bromell is joined by Reverend
Eugene Rivers and Prize Fellow at
Harvard University Brandon M. Terry
for a panel discussion centered
around Bromell’s work The Time is
Always Now. Bromell’s book brings to
light an underappreciated stream of
democratic reflection by black writers
and activists from David Walker to
Malcolm X.
Friday, Feb. 28 / 7:00pm
Susan Minot
Thirty Girls
@ Harvard Book Store
The bestselling author of Evening,
Susan Minot, reads from her latest
novel, Thirty Girls. Weaving together
two stories into one cohesive thread,
Minot portrays a young Ugundan
teenager struggling to survive after
committing atrocious acts alongside
the story of an American journalist
hoping to give voice to Ugundan
children.
February 2014 Events, continued
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