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INTERVIEW: ALISON BECHDEL
“I’m just trying to connect with people and this is the only way I can really do it.” Continue reading
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EARTH PRIME TIME: GUY DELISLE SIGNING FOR ‘JERUSALEM’ AT HARVARD BOOK STORE
Guy Delisle will be at Harvard Book Store tonight at 7pm for a free signing and discussion of his travel journal from Jerusalem entitled, Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City.
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Tags: Book Signing, comics, Drawn and Quarterly, Graphic Novel, Guy Delisle, Harvard Bookstore, journal, review, signing, travel
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DIG THIS: BAFFLER LAUNCH PARTY @ HARVARD BOOKSTORE
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Tags: Chris Lehmann, Harvard Bookstore, Issue 14.4, John Summers, New York Times, The Baffler, Thomas Frank
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HANDS ON THE FREEDOM PLOW @ HARVARD BOOKSTORE
The fact that Hands on the Freedom Plow—a chronicle of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee actions during the Civil Rights Movement—was originally slotted in the ol’ Dig Calendar as “Hands on the Freedom Trail” probably means something. And that something is … Continue reading
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Tags: Calendar, Cambridge, Hands on the Freedom Plow, Harvard Bookstore, Issue 14.5, Janet Moses, Judy Richardson, Penny Patch
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PHANTASMA: OAT
“As graphic designers, we’re sort of like stylists for businesses,” says Oat creative director Jen Lucey-Brzoza.
More like mind readers in training. Continue reading
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Tags: Design, Harvard Bookstore, Irving House, Island Creek Oyster Bar, Oat, The Clark, Trina's Starlight Lounge
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GARY SHTEYNGARD @ BRATTLE THEATRE
During the day Gary Shteyngart hangs out at Columbia with James Franco and jokes about how smart and talented he and his friends are. At night, he writes self-insert fan-fiction in which he and his improbably attractive Asian girlfriend struggle to survive in a media-saturated near-future wasteland. Said fan-fiction then finds its way on to the New York Times bestseller list and then never leaves. Even he when’s being lame, Shteyengart still ends up being cool. Stupid lucky Shteyngart. Hear Shteyngart read from said lame dumb book for idiots, Super Sad True Love Story, over at Brattle Theatre, thanks to those jerks at Harvard Book Store.
[Wed 5.18.11. 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. 617.876.6838. 6pm/$5. harvard.com]
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Tags: Brattle Film, Gary Shteyngart, Harvard Bookstore, Issue 13.19, Super Sad True Love Story
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ROBERT AND ELLEN KAPLAN @ HARVARD BOOK STORE
When we refer to Robert and Ellen Kaplan as “a wizened couple cuter than a kitten poking out of a mound of sweaters,” we’re not using the term “wizened” as in “aged.” We mean it as in “they’re wizards.” The Kaplans founded The Math Circle, a Boston-based gathering of computational conjurers who sit around uttering arcane incantations and discussing Fermat’s Last Theorem with an enthusiasm normally reserved for finding a quarter in the street while on meth. See? Wizards. This pair of married mages come to the Harvard Book Store to discuss their book Hidden Harmonies, which tracks the history of the Pythagorean theorem, from Babylon to third-period trig.
[Thu. 1.27.11. 1256 Mass. Ave., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 617.661.1515. 7pm/all ages/free. harvard.com]
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Tags: Harvard Bookstore, Hidden Harmonies, Kindly Wizards, Robert and Ellen Kaplan, The Math Circles
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RICHARD WOLFFE @ HARVARD BOOK STORE
“No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy.” The campaign German field marshall Helmuth von Moltke was referring to was more of the pointy-hats and horses variety, but damned if that advice doesn’t hold true for the tour bus and attack ad Democratic process. What gets you in office probably won’t keep you there, as political analyst Richard Wolffe explores in his newest book, Revival: The Struggle for Survival in the Obama White House, which he’ll be discussing with the tough crowd over at the Harvard Book Store. How do you navigate the thin strip of territory between capitulation and compromise? Holding true to your ideals, and losing to the literally insane? [1256 Mass. Ave., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 617.661.1515. 7pm/free. harvard.com]
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DIG THIS! SALMAN RUSHDIE
You probably know Mr. Rushdie as the former husband of Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi. Continue reading
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THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS @ BRATTLE THEATRE
The Best American Essays collection celebrates its 25th year of being conspicuously perched on nightstands when company is over (“Apologies for the mess, but I’ve just been reading books all day. You know, for fun. More wine?”) with a blow-out PANEL DISCUSSION at the Brattle Theatre, courtesy of Harvard Book Store. Series editor Robert Atwan leads contributors Dr. John H. Summers (the PhD kind, not the good kind) and former guest editor Lauren Slater in some seriously polite, measured conversation about the essay’s niche as a nonfiction art form. Let’s get ready to NOD THOUGHTFULLY! [40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 617.661.1515. 6pm/all ages/$5. harvard.com]
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Tags: 25th Anniversary, Author Talk, Brattle Theatre, Harvard Bookstore, Harvard Square, The Best American Essays
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PHIL OCHS SONG NIGHT @ FIRST PARISH CHURCH
Equal parts Elvis Presley and Che Guevara, Phil Ochs penned a good portion of the soundtrack to being pissed back in the ’60s, including “The Draft Dodger Rag” and “I Ain’t Marching Anymore.” Tragically, anger’s twin cousins, misery and booze, finally caught up with Ochs in the mid-’70s, and he took his own life at the age of 35. The Cambridge Forum, in conjunction with his sister, Sonny Ochs, and the Harvard Book Store, keep his message of snarky defiance alive, with an evening of protest at First Parish Church Meetinghouse. [1446 Mass. Ave., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 617.876.7772. 7pm/$20, $15 members, $10 children. harvard.com]
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Tags: First Parish Church, Folk, Harvard Bookstore, Harvard Square, Issue 12.42, Phil Ochs, Protest
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