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EVENTS AT THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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– Line to enter the theatre begins at 5:30pm
– Seating begins at 5:45pm
– Unclaimed tickets become invalid at 5:55pm<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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If you can’t make it to one of our excellent events, you may order signed copies of events books by calling the store at 617-566-6660 or by ordering the book through our website. Just click “Shop Online” and request a signature and\/or inscription in the “Additional Comments” field at checkout.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Saturday, March 6, 5pm
Judith Warner – We\u2019ve Got Issues: Parents and Children in the Age of Medication<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Judith Warner (Perfect Madness<\/em>; the columnist of the New York Times\u2019 \u201cDomestic Disturbances\u201d) spoke with a cross section of parents, psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, researchers, and therapists over the course of five years to find out how meds are affecting our children. The enlightening result is a wake-up call.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tuesday, March 9th at 7:30pm
A free event presented with and at Temple Kehillath Israel<\/em> (384 Harvard Street, Brookline)<\/em>
Nancy Kehoe – Wrestling with Our Inner Angels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nancy Kehoe is a nun and psychology clinician. In her first book, she makes a compelling argument for faith as a means to make decisions and order one\u2019s life. With great empathy, she shares stories of the troubled people she has helped and writes of the way religious feeling has shaped her own choices. \u201cRemarkable,\u201d says Cokie Roberts. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Wednesday, March 10, 7pm
Sam Lipsyte – The Ask<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSam Lipsyte can get blood out of a stone\u201d \u2013 Edmund White. If the Booksmith has prayers, they\u2019ve been answered: the funniest writer in America is coming to Brookline. Sam Lipsyte (Home Land<\/em>, Venus Drive<\/em>) has written his third novel, The Ask<\/em>, a screed against university development, capitalism, artistic leanings, and the middle classes. Apr\u00e8s Lipsyte, le d\u00e9luge.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Thursday, March 11, 6pm
Small Beer Press<\/a> presents:
A Fundraiser to Benefit Franciscan Hospital for Children<\/em><\/strong>
with Holly Black<\/strong>, Cassandra Clare<\/strong>, & emcee Kelly Link<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In the Readers’ & Writers’ Room at the Booksmith
Tickets required – $5<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A discussion with the co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles<\/em>, the person behind The Mortal Instruments<\/em> and the author of Pretty Monsters<\/em>? Don\u2019t mind if we do! The Booksmith presents a YA extravaganza to benefit Franciscan Hospital for Children. All ticket sales and 20% of their book sales will be donated to the hospital. Email your questions for the authors to hollycassandrakelly@gmail.com<\/a><\/u>. Click here for additional information!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Monday, March 15, 7pm Now Write! Nonfiction<\/a> Write-in<\/strong>
with Sherry Ellis<\/strong>, Leah Cohen<\/strong>,& Marcie Hershman<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Have you ever wanted to write nonfiction? Learn how at the Booksmith\u2019s first-ever writing workshop! Billerica-based writing coach Sherry Ellis (Now Write, Illuminating Fiction) <\/em>celebrates the release of her latest writing guide, Now Write! Nonfiction<\/em> with a writing class. Joining her will be fellow teachers Hershman and Cohen. During this workshop you will have the opportunity to start some of the writing exercises included in the book.
Bring paper and pen!
RSVP and book purchase required.<\/strong>
Email events@brooklinebooksmith.com<\/a> or call 617.739.6002 to RSVP or for details.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Wednesday, March 17, 7pm
Elif Batuman – The Possessed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Follow Stanford professor Elif Batuman as she visits Tolstoy’s estate to investigate a possible murder and loses Isaac Babel’s family at the airport. Batuman (Harper\u2019s, The New Yorker, LRB and n+1<\/em>) has literally walked a mile in the footsteps of her heroes in a sharp, funny, personal literary history that takes us from California to the Caucasus. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse<\/em>
Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch – Ten Walks\/Two Talks
<\/strong> With Damon Krukowski <\/strong>and Matvei Yankelevich<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n

Ugly Duckling<\/a> is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit art and publishing collective. Join them as they celebrate the release of Ten Walks\/Two Talks,<\/em> a book Time Out <\/em>describes as \u201cphilosophical, formally innovative and fascinating.” Also appearing are Damon Krukowski (The Memory Theater Burned<\/em>, of bands Galaxie 500 & Damon and Naomi) and Matvei Yankelevich (Boris by the Sea<\/em>), one of the press\u2019s founders.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Friday, March 19, 7pm
The Breakwater Reading Series<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Breakwater Reading Series features fiction, non-fiction and poetry by writers from UMass-Boston and Emerson College MFA programs. Join us on the third Friday each month to hear these extraordinary emerging voices. For more information, please contact Angela: breakwater.reading@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tuesday, March 23, 7pm
Clea Simon<\/strong> — Grey Matters<\/p>\n

<\/a> Local mystery maven Clea Simon\u2019s second Dulcie Schwartz mystery picks up a few months after the end of Shades of Grey<\/em>. Harvard doctoral student Dulcie Schwartz finds the body of a fellow graduate student on her adviser\u2019s front step. The ghost of Mr. Grey, her deceased cat, returns to offer his usual cryptic advice, leaving Dulcie to try and find the real murderer before the killer finds her. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Wednesday, March 24, 7pm
Sonya Chung – Long for This World<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sonya Chung teaches writing at NYU and the Gotham Writer\u2019s Workshop. Long for This World centers around a Korean family in America. Kate Walbert calls it “an intricately structured and powerfully resonant portrait of lives lived at the crossroads of culture, and a family torn between the old world and the new\u2026 a powerful debut from a young writer of great talent and promise.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Monday, March 29, 7pm
David Shields – Reality Hunger: A Manifesto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Memoirist (The Thing About Life Is That One Day You\u2019ll Be Dead, Enough About You<\/em>), sportswriter (Body Politic, Baseball Is Just Baseball<\/em>) novelist (A Handbook for Drowning, Dead Languages<\/em>) and Guggenheim Fellow David Shields will visit the Booksmith in honor of his latest work, Reality Hunger,<\/em> that left Jonathan Lethem \u201castonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Friday, April 2 at 7pm
Christopher Moore \u2013 Bite Me<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The man The Onion<\/em> calls \u201cthe thinking man\u2019s Dave Barry\u201d returns with the third and final installment of his Bloodsucking Fiends<\/em> trilogy. Christopher Moore (Lamb, Fool, The Stupidest Angel)<\/em> brings his patented brand of socially incisive tomfoolery to a story about an accidental vampire, his mistress and an enormous cat. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Monday, April 5 at 7pm
Molly Wizenberg \u2013 A Homemade Life <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Molly Wizenberg, the woman behind the wildly popular blog Orangette<\/a>, made a name for herself by sharing her favorite recipes with stories about her life. A Homemade Life<\/em>, her New York Times bestselling memoir, serves up a book-length portion of wit and wisdom. Join her at the Booksmith to celebrate its paperback release.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tuesday, April 6 at 7pm
Susan Senator \u2013 The Autism Mom\u2019s Survival Guide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer, activist and mother Susan Senator \u2013 author of Making Peace With Autism<\/em> \u2013 has written about autism for the Globe<\/em>, the Washington Post<\/em> and the New York Times.<\/em> Her new book shares the stories of parents of autistic children to instruct and inspire, drawing upon Senator\u2019s own experience of finding joy in the midst of great struggle.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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