This Week Sept. 11, 12 and 13

Best news: this week we’re hosting our good friend Iggy McGovern, physicist and poet from Dublin, Ireland. Iggy will be reading from his new book Making Waves: A Sonnet Sequence Based on the Life of Erwin Schrodinger  (who but a poet who is also a physicist- or is he a physicist who’s also a poet? – would write this!) this coming Thursday Sept 12 at 5:30 pm here at The Bookstore. We first met Iggy a dozen or so years ago when mutual friends told us he was coming to the States and would we like to have him come and read his poems? Sure, we said, and a great friendship was forged. He came back a few years later, this time after having written a limerick for every chapter of Ulysses!     Why’d you do that, we asked. It was a way to force me to read the blooming thing, he said. Here’s his website, take a look at some of his work, it’s play really, and do try to come by this Thursday at 5:30 for what we can promise will be a thoroughly delightful evening! https://iggymcgovern.com/ The day before that, Wednesday, Sept 11 at 3:00 pm, we’ll be at St. James Place in Great Barrington, providing books for a  Schumacher Center presentation,  To Be Thy Adam: Agency, Activism, and Collective Intelligence in the Ruins of the Human, a symposium featuring post-humanist thinker Bayo Akomolafe, theologian Catherine Keller, author Dougald Hine, and philosopher Alex Forrester in a spirited conversation around themes of artificial intelligence, the apocalyptic, and the future of being human. We are very proud to be associated with these folks. https://centerforneweconomics.org/ And to round out the week, we’re providing books for our friend Judith Monachina, author of Days of Memory, at her OllI event at Berkshire Community College, Friday Sept 13 at 10:00 am. You can register for that here.     Such a pleasure to be your bookseller for these events as well as, you know, every day. Thanks for reading. Matt