January 2016 Events

Thursday, Jan. 7 / 7:00pm Tuesday, Jan. 12 / 6:00pm Wed., Jan. 20 / 7:00pm Tuesday, Jan. 26 / 7:00pm Greg Jobin-Leeds Elizabeth Strout Mira Ptacin Stephen Prothero When We Fight, We Win!: My Name is Lucy Barton: Poor Your Soul Why Liberals Win the Culture Twenty-First-Century Social A Novel Wars (Even When They Lose @ Harvard Book Store Movements and the Activists Elections): $5 Tickets That Are Transforming Our World Teacher and memoirist Mira Ptacin A History of the Religious @ Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle St. discusses her latest book, Poor Your Battles That Define America joined by Soul, a reflection on sexuality, free from Jefferson’s Heresies to Gay JOSÉ JORGE DÍAZ Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive will, and the fierce bonds of family. DEYMIRIE HERNÁNDEZ Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout presents Marriage STEVE MEACHAM her latest novel, My Name is Lucy pm @ Harvard Book Store LISA OWENS Barton, an illuminating story centered Thursday, Jan. 21 / 7:00 GIBRÁN RIVERA between the relationship of a mother University professor Stephen Maria Konnikova and other contributors and her daughter. Prothero discusses his book Why The Confidence Game: Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even @ Harvard Book Store Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time When They Lose Elections), a social Wed., Jan. 13 / 7:00pm history of today’s cultural wars within Local author and activist Greg @ Harvard Book Store the context of the centuries-long Jobin-Leeds is joined by contributors Timothy Snyder struggle of right versus left. and organizers for a celebration of Black Earth: Maria Konnikova, author of the publication of Mastermind: How to Think Like When We Fight, The Holocaust as History and We Win!, featuring performances by Sherlock Holmes, discusses Wed., Jan. 27 / 7:00pm AgitArte and presentations from City Warning her latest book, The Confidence Life/Vida Urbana and more! @ Harvard Book Store Game—a compelling investigation Tessa Hadley into the minds, motives, and The Past: Yale University Professor of History methods of con artists. pm A Novel Friday, Jan. 8 / 7:00 Timothy Snyder discusses his latest book, Black Earth, a history of the in conversation with LILY KING Freda Love Smith Holocaust that recounts the horrors Friday, Jan. 22 / 7:00pm Red Velvet Underground: of the past and serves as a warning @ Harvard Book Store Pamela Painter and A Rock Memoir, with Recipes for our present. Ioannis Pappos Acclaimed author Tessa Hadley and bestselling author of Euphoria Lily in conversation with Ways to Spend the Night Thursday, Jan. 14 / 7:00pm King discuss Hadley’s latest book, and The Past, centered on a dramatic @ Harvard Book Store Tom Perrotta Hotel Living: family reunion where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head The Scarlet Letter: A Novel Former Blake Babies bandmates over three long summer weeks. Freda Love Smith and Juliana Penguin Classics Edition @ Harvard Book Store Hatfield discuss Smith’s memoir and @ Harvard Book Store Emerson College professor Pamela cookbook, Red Velvet Underground, pm Painter and debut novelist Ioannis Thursday, Jan. 28 / 7:00 which tells the story of how Smith’s Tom Perrotta, author of The Pappos discuss their recent books. indie-rock past grew into her family— Leftovers, presents Penguin Classics’ Justin Peters Ways to Spend the Night collects and food-centric present. newest edition of , The Scarlet Letter fifteen stories on loss and recovery The Idealist: for which he wrote the foreward. and Hotel Living portrays privilege, Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Monday, Jan. 11 / 7:00pm aspiration, and international finance Free Culture on the Internet Tuesday, Jan. 19 / 7:00pm during the downward spiral of the Eric Weiner Great Recession. in conversation with JOHN SUMMERS The Geography of Genius: Sunil Yapa A Search for the World’s Most Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size Monday, Jan. 25 / 7:00pm @ WorkBar | Creative Places, from Ancient of a Fist 45 Prospect St., Cambridge Athens to Silicon Valley The Harvard Square Book Circle New Voices in Fiction Harvard Book Store and The discusses Emily St. John @ Harvard Book Store Baffler present Slate correspondent @ Harvard Book Store Mandel’s Station Eleven Justin Peters and editor-in-chief Bestselling author of The Geography of The Baffler John Summers for Join Harvard Book Store and of Bliss Eric Weiner discusses @ Harvard Book Store a discussion of Peters’ book The GrubStreet for a reading from Sunil his latest work, The Geography Idealist, a lively history of the Internet Yapa’s debut novel Your Heart Is a Join our in-store book club to discuss of Genius, an examination of free culture movement—and the , a story set Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling the connections between our Muscle the Size of a Fist life and shocking suicide of Aaron amid the heated conflict of Seattle’s Station Eleven, a post-apocalyptic surroundings and our most Swartz, a founding developer of 1999 WTO protests. tale that follows a troupe of traveling innovative ideas. performers and musicians. 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