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What do you get when you combine a curious Little Pig (“My name is Jacob!”), a creative author/illustrator, and a group of inquisitive young listeners? … a fun afternoon of stories, music, and grins all around! David Hyde Costello visited the Bookshop to read and sign his newest picture book, Little Pig Joins the Band. The premise of the book really [...] January 12th, 2012 | Tags: Charlesbridge, Children's Picture Book, David Hyde Costello, Little PIg Joins the Band | Category: author event | 4 comments
Caroline Preston visited the bookshop last month, to discuss her newest book, the utterly unique The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures. A brief teaser from the publisher: “For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie receives a scrapbook and her father’s old Corona typewriter. Frankie’s dreams of becoming a writer, and the reader follows [...] December 19th, 2011 | Tags: author event, Caroline Preston, Concord Bookshop, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt | Category: author event | 10 comments
Weeknight Spanikopita I had the great fortune of being invited to the launch of the Cook’s Illustrated Coobook last month. The reception was held at the company’s Boston-area office. Attendees were greeted at an unmarked door (above the door is the number of the building, but no sign indicating that this is the home of America’s [...] December 3rd, 2011 | Tags: America's Test Kitchen, author event, book launch, Christopher Kimball, Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Illustrated Cookbook, Weekend Cooking | Category: author event, Weekend Cooking | 17 comments
Sara Hoagland Hunter and Julia Miner We recently had the opportunity to host an event with both the author and the illustrator of a new children’s book. The Lighthouse Santa is written by Sara Hoagland Hunter and illustrated by Julia Miner; both author and illustrator are fairly local to us (Miner, in fact, keeps a [...] December 1st, 2011 | Tags: author event, children's, Julia Miner, Sara Hoagland Hunter, The Lighthouse Santa | Category: author event, book review, children's | 9 comments
The Bookshop hosted John Smolens with his historical novel, The Schoolmaster’s Daughter: A Novel of the American Revolution. This novel explores a family torn apart – Abigail Lovell’s schoolmaster father is an outspoken loyalist and prominent figurehead in the community; she and her two brothers engage in acts of espionage to undermine the British forces in Boston. It’s a tale [...] November 14th, 2011 | Tags: author event, John Smolens, The Schoolmaster's Daughter | Category: author event | 4 comments
Nan (@nanReads), Anne (@anneDeCourcey), Marie (@bostonBibliophl) and I waiting in line for the event. A few weeks ago I went in to Cambridge to meet some friends for the John Lithgow event that Harvard Bookstore was holding. Yes, I asked one of the event staff to take our photo; we were lined up outside First [...] October 19th, 2011 | Tags: author event, Drama, Harvard Bookstore, John Lithgow | Category: author event | 9 comments
[A quick and dirty blog post about one event from today's NEIBA conference. It took four men in my hotel room to get the wi-fi working ... and they tell me they'll comp it for my trouble. Squeaky wheel strikes again ...] The 2011 New England Book Awards luncheon was the first official event of the [...] Back up to Salem on Sunday morning for the last day of the Salem Lit Fest! The first two panels I attended were at the Salem Athenæum (isn’t that cool that I figured out how to insert the ligature ‘ae’? And, yes, I had to look up what it was called!). The Athenæum is a 50,000 [...] September 30th, 2011 | Tags: Alethea Black, Deborah Noyes, Ellen Meeropol, Holly LeCraw, Jenna Blum, Julia Fox Garrison, Laura Harrington, Meg Mitchell Moore, Randy Susan Meyers, Salem Lit Fest | Category: author event | 9 comments
Brunonia Barry, Julia Glass, and Katherine Howe. Note the bank safe behind them (held at Salem Five's community room) The new, revived Salem Lit Fest was held this past weekend – actually a 3-day fest, it kicked off with a reception on Friday night (which my family schedule kept me from). Aside from the Friday [...] |
 
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