Fall for the Book

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

Breaking the Victorian Glass Ceiling Wednesday, October 27, 12 pm via Crowdcast About the Event From the medical tables to the séance parlor, two authors explore the stories of groundbreaking and norm-bending Victorian women. Emily Midorikawa’s Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice, tells the stories of influencial