Namwali Serpell presenting “On Morrison”

First Parish Church 3 Church St., Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes Namwali Serpell—professor of English at Harvard University and acclaimed author of The Old Drift and The Furrows—for a discussion of her highly anticipated new book, On Morrison, an extraordinary assessment of Toi Morrison. She will be joined in conversation by Tracy K. Smith—the...

David Guterson reads from ‘Evelyn in Transit: A Novel’

Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

David Guterson reads from his new novel about a bored misfit who hitchhikes across the American West taking odd jobs – and whose life is strangely linked with a boy raised as a Buddhist monk in the mountains of Tibet.