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Memo to Star Jones: Babs is in Boston, please stay away

by Sharon Steel | May 22, 2008
From the inbox: Brookline Booksmith is pleased to announce that broadcasting legend Barbara Walters will be appearing at your favorite local independent bookstore on Thursday, May 22nd at 7pm. She will be signing copies of her best-selling book Audition...

James Frey is Blogging...

by Sharon Steel | May 05, 2008
Over at Omnivoracious , hosted by Amazon.com. Only one post is up so far and it's annoyingly music-centric. Why all the flashing lights and filler for your readings, James Frey? Why can't you just get up there and, um, READ? We have grown grumpy...

Sloane Crosley Has The Career You Always Wanted

by Sharon Steel | April 14, 2008
Sometimes, alt-weekly dreams really do come true! Remember back in November, when we were obsessing over Sloane Crosley , Vintage/Anchor book publicist extraordinaire, who had a much-hyped , uber-blurbed book of personal essays coming out this spring...

Intriguing Australian author alert

by Nina MacLaughlin | February 15, 2008
“The world is getting hotter, the ice caps are melting, because man keeps saying to nature, Hey, our whole idea of a cozy future is to have jobs. That’s all we’ve got planned. What’s more, we will pursue this aim at any cost, even, paradoxically, if it...

Best American Essays tonight at the Brookline Booksmith

by Sharon Steel | November 08, 2007
Editor DAVID FOSTER WALLACE lead a formidable group of contributors in a discussion of this year's answer to The Best American Essays . And tonight, Elaine Scarry, Jerald Walker, and Robert Atwan will bring their work to the reading stage. So if you've...

Video: Nick Hornby on Slam, the Sox, Tony Hawk, and Time Traveling

by Sharon Steel | October 29, 2007
Thanks to Brookline Booksmith for hosting the Nick Hornby reading Just to make sure, we decided to wait until the Curse of the Hornbino had been demolished by Your 2007 Boston Red Sox before posting the rest of Nick Hornby's Q&A at the Devotion...

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant

by Sharon Steel | August 09, 2007
Tonight! Steve Almond, Laura Dave, and editor Jenni Ferarri-Adler read from Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone . Twenty-six writers (including Nora Ephron, Ann Patchett, and Haruki Murakami) reflect...

THURSDAY: Trevor Corson at the Brookline Booksmith

by Sharon Steel | June 14, 2007
TREVOR CORSON has a thing for sea life. His first book, The Secret Life of Lobsters , began as an essay in The Best American Science Writing . Now, he’s turning his attention from Maine crustaceans to “the fast food of Old Tokyo” with The Zen of Fish...

Q&A with Literary Fleshbot Audacia Ray

by Importer | June 06, 2007
We first became enthralled by Audacia Ray’s new book because it boasted a cover with numerical code arranged in the form of an ass. Bloody brilliant, if you ask us. Of course, the inside worked for us as well. Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads...

TUESDAY: Andrew O'Hagan and Claire Messud at Booksmith

by Sharon Steel | June 04, 2007
Brookline Booksmith hosts a double bill with both ANDREW O’HAGAN and CLAIRE MESSUD reading from their fourth novels. The Scottish-born O’Hagan’s Be Near Me is narrated by David Anderton, an Oxford-educated Catholic priest who obtains a parish near his...

Wednesday: Amy Fusselman at the Booksmith

by Sharon Steel | May 29, 2007
AMY FUSSELMAN was raped by her babysitter’s husband when she was four years old. In 8: A Memoir , she forgoes describing the violation in favor of chronicling the snowballing fallout it had on every aspect of her life. Her debut, The Pharmacist’s Mate...

TOMORROW: David Talbot at the Booksmith

by Sharon Steel | May 07, 2007
Given all the books on Princess Di in the pipeline for next season, it seems fitting that Salon founder DAVID TALBOT has gone against the grain to focus on America’s version of a royal family. Brothers: A Hidden History of the Kennedy Years is an in-depth...

WEDNESDAY: Nathan Englander at the Booksmith

by Sharon Steel | May 01, 2007
We’ve had our eye on writer-on-the-verge NATHAN ENGLANDER since devouring his debut short-story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (click for an excerpt). Englander, a former Orthodox Jew, travels from Jerusalem to read and sign copies of...

GIRLS BEHAVING BADLY: Tonight at Great Scott

by Sharon Steel | April 20, 2007
Three young writers are forgoing good manners and decent content tonight for “ BAD BEHAVIOR 2007 .” JAMI ATTENBERG ( Instant Love ), JANICE ERLBAUM ( Girlbomb, A Halfway Homeless Memoir ), and WENDY MCCLURE ( I’m Not the New Me ) have highlighted the...

THURSDAY: Ben Greenman at the Booksmith

by Sharon Steel | April 18, 2007
WHAT IS THIS THING? A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love is BEN GREENMAN ’s third book, and this New Yorker staffer has chosen the most wonderful and infuriating of human emotions for his muse. The current editor of “Goings...

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