Brown Bookstore
Author Events
Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted
244 Thayer Street, Providence, RI • (401)863-3168
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Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event but would like an autographed book.
We will do our best to accomodate your request at the author's and publisher's discretion.
Thursday, February 9th at 5:30pm
Brown Bookstore presents
Credit: Brown University
Jewish Life in 21st Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance
"...Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination and their institutions are regularly threatened and periodically attacked. Brink-Danan explores the contradictions and gaps in the popular ideology of Turkey as a land of tolerance...difference as Jews and sameness as Turkish citizens..."
--publisher description
Location:The Brown University Bookstore
244 Thayer Street, Providence
Monday, February 13th at 5:30pm
John Carter Brown Library presents
Credit:@grantabooks.com
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
"Fascinating...A landmark of a book that drops ingrained images of colonial America into the dustbin one after the other."
--Roger Atwood, Boston Globe
Location: John Carter Brown Library
94 George Street, Providence
Monday, February 13th at 6:00pm
Creative Non-Fiction Writing Program presents
Credit:Brown University
A Rope and A Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides
"The singular and harrowing account of a journalist's captivity in the most important place on earth, and what it means to be the one left behind."
--Ezra Griswold, "The Daily Beast"
Location: Brown-RISD Hillel
80 Brown Street, Providence
Tuesday, February 14th at 6:00pm
Brown Bookstore presents
Credit: 84press
College Sex: Hooking up, Hanging Out, and Relationships
UMass undergraduate Achamfour describes himself as a student-author. His work includes documented anecdotes, quotations, and questions from his peers about college sex, giving them a forum to share their views.
Location: Brown Bookstore
244 Thayer Street, Providence
Thursday, February 23rd at 3:00pm
John Nicholas Brown Center presents
Credit: @pndblog.typepad.com
After The Fall:
New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed
"A meticulously edited and staggering book of 'living memory."
--"Booklist"
Location:John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street, Providence
Tuesday, February 28th at 6:00pm
Brown University presents
Credit:@ualr.edu
The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
"With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it..."
--publisher description
Location: Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Arts
154 Angell Street, Providence
Tuesday, March 6th at 5:30pm
Brown Bookstore Book Launch
Credit: Caitlín Kiernan
The Drowning Girl
The always intriguing Caitlín Kiernan celebrates the release of her new work with a book launch at the Brown Bookstore!
Location: Brown Bookstore
244 Thayer Street, Providence
Thursday, March 15th at 5:30pm
Brown Bookstore presents
Credit: The History Press
Railroads of Rhode Island
Railroad affecionado's take note! Local author Frank Heppner reads from and discusses his new book about the building of railroads in the Ocean State.
Location: Brown Bookstore
244 Thayer Street, Providence
Monday, March 19th at 5:30pm
Brown Bookstore presents
Credit: Facebook
The Song of Achilles
"...It's a daunting effort to recast an ancient tale, but classics scholar Madeline Miller proves that she is worthy of the task with this finely wrought debut grafted from the historical root of the Trojan War."
--Robert Geake, The Indie Monthly
Location:Brown Bookstore
244 Thayer Street, Providence