Fall for the Book

The Exponential Age: Big Tech and Us Wednesday, October 20, 11 am via Crowdcast About the Event As high-tech innovation moves at a dizzying rate, our world and society is in danger of spinning off its axis. In The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society, entrepreneur Azeem Azhar presents a […]

Around the World in Five Novels Wednesday, October 20, 7 pm via YouTube About the Event Authors from five continents talk about family, identity, and inclusion in their far-ranging novels. Chilean novelist María José Ferrada’s How to Order the Universe, translated by Elizabeth Bryer, follows a father and daughter’s lives as traveling salesmen in Pinochet-era

The New Border Wars Friday, October 22, 12 pm via Crowdcast About the Event In The New Border Wars: The Conflicts That Will Define Our Future, Klaus Dodds examines the changing meaning of borders, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, Palestine to Pakistan, and more. This geopolitical investigation covers the evolution of

Serving Up Some Love Friday, October 22, 7 pm via YouTube About the Event The way to everyone’s heart is through their stomachs, right? Two romance writers serve up tasty tours of love and cooking; then make your favorite recipes home to try yourself. In Jenn Bouchard’s novel First Course, set on Cape Elizabeth, Maine,

The Hunt for a Victorian Serial Killer Monday, October 25, 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event How could a doctor who used poison to kill ten people in Britain and North America — a brazen crime wave as notorious as Jack the Ripper’s — be forgotten today? In The Case of the Murderous Dr.

Maggie Smith & Victoria Chang in Conversation Tuesday, October 26, 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Award-winning poets Maggie Smith and Victoria Chang discuss the objects of everyday life and family history — a hallway mirror, a marriage license, a photograph — and how we come to terms and know ourselves through them. Smith’s