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- Location:
- Waltham, MA, 02453
- Phone:
- (781) 209-0631
- Tues - Fri:
- 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm
- Sat:
- 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
- Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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- Poet Marie Ponsot reads from "...
Pierre Menard Gallery
Sunday, October 25 at 3:00pm - Dave Zeltserman reads from "Pa...
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Thursday, October 22 at 7:30pm - Franz Wright: "Wheeling Motel"
Pierre Menard Gallery
Saturday, September 26 at 3:00pm - Tao Lin: "Shoplifting From Ame...
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Wednesday, September 16 at 7:30pm - Celebrate Frankenstein's Mothe...
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Sunday, August 30 at 4:00pm - Pictorial Webster's Dictionary...
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Saturday, August 29 at 7:00pm - Monthly Open Mic Night!
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Thursday, August 20 at 7:00pm - Monthly Open Mic Night!
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Thursday, July 23 at 7:00pm - Ryan Grim, "This is Your Coun...
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Friday, July 17 at 7:30pm - Tom Zoellner: "Uranium: War, E...
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Wednesday, July 1 at 7:30pm
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Wendy Mnookin Poetry ReadingCreated about 8 months ago
Back Pages Books Stephen King bashing goes on quite often in a bookstore, and it's hard to convince anyone who hasn't read him that he's an amazing writer, but if you're among those who doubt him (I admit there have been quite a few duds alongside the greats), check out this piece on short story master Raymond Carver from late November.... Even his book reviews are excellent . . .
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Carol Sklenicka’s biography and a long-overdue “Collected Stories” spotlight Carver’s growth as a writer and illuminate his poisonous relationship with the editor Gordon Lish.
Back Pages Books Until yesterday we here at Back Pages had no idea that the subtitle to Black Beauty was: "The 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' of the Horse". Got others?
Back Pages Books If you see it on the shelves at another bookshop, you can know it started right here in Waltham . . .
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“Dave Zeltserman returns with a tale of the South Boston Mob so harrowing it places him alongside contemporary masters Jim Crais and James Ellroy. One of the few writers whose tales are both brutal and beautiful, Zeltserman is a rising star of crime fiction.”
Back Pages Books Due to unforseen circumstances, the owner (me/Alex) has had to travel out of town. At present we will be closed all day today, Thursday, October 29th, and will have variable hours Friday and Saturday.Please call us at 781-209-0631 to see when we're open for those days and we hope to return to full, regular hours on Su...nday, November 1. Thank you for your patience and understanding.-Management
Back Pages Books He lives one town over and is on the rise to becoming one of the greatest mystery writers we have. Last year, NPR put him right next to Stieg Larsson, author of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" as one of our top 5 mystery writers of the year. Join us tomorrow night at 7:30 PM as the incomparable Dave Zeltserman read...s from his new thriller "Pariah"!
Back Pages Books Waltham Town Hall, 2009 . . . no death panels, but definitely a bit of substance.
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Back Pages Books Join us at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Harvard Square for the only New England reading by acclaimed poet Marie Ponsot to celebrate her new collection of poems, Easy. This event is co-sponsored with the Pierre Menard Art Gallery and the Grolier Poetry Bookshop, America's oldest all-poetry bookstore.
Time:3:00PM Sunday, October 25th
Location:Pierre Menard Gallery
Back Pages Books REMINDER: EVENT TONIGHTat 7:30 . . . REBECCA BROWN, "AMERICAN ROMANCES", ELENA GEORGIOU, "RHAPSODY OF THE NAKED IMMIGRANTS" READ ON . . .
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The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Nathaniel Hawthorne intersect as representatives of west coast hedonism and east coast Puritanism; Gertrude Stein presides over a same-sex religious movement; a mad Finnish-American ...
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An agreement between Google, The Authors Guild of America, and the Association of American Publishers has touched off the most vociferous battle between technology companies since the inception of the Internet.
Back Pages Books FRANZ WRIGHT in Harvard Square tomorrow at 4 PM!
Back Pages Books FILM NIGHT TONIGHT!
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Join us for our first monthly film night with celebrated Waltham filmmaker Bryan Papciak, cofounder of Handcranked Film Productions in the Waltham Mills.
Back Pages Books Film night tomorrow night featuring Punk Rock Girl (the classic MTV video), Son of Satan (adapted from Charles Bukowski), and five other short films introduced by award-winning filmmaker Bryan Papciak of Handcranked Film Productions in the Waltham Mills.
Back Pages Books TAO LIN READS TONIGHT @ 7:30 FROM "SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL"! His breakout novel "Eeee Eee Eeee" was a wild sensation three years ago and now we're the start of three days worth of events for him here in Boston. And yes, we've got events for October and November flying in. Next week we've got an awesome fil...m night as well . . .
Back Pages Books TAO LIN READS TOMORROW NIGHT! -- Acclaimed, awesomely strange, and hilariously engaging author Tao Lin will read from his new book "Shoplifting From American Apparel" tomorrow evening (Wednesday) at the bookstore at 7:30 PM. Come on out!
