For the fourth summer in a row, Words Bookstore is welcoming the red-capped, navigationally challenged Waldo to town. The hunt is on through July 29. (Read more about the Waldo search here.)
But between now and then, there are plenty more events to enjoy at Words — including a visit from Ernest Hemingway’s grandson. Check it out below:
JULY 7 / TUE / 7 PM
BALANCING ACTS: A WRITER’S PANEL
with writers Jenny Milchman, Laura Diamond, and JB Shroeder. Learn how these writers finally became published authors–and what they stood to gain and had to lose along the way. Join us for a lively, informal panel discussion about writing and life’s perennial juggling act!
JULY 12 / SUN / 2-4 PM
GET HAPPY SIGNING
with author + musician Mary Amato Award-winning author and musician Mary Amato combines two passions in her latest young-adult novels about songwriters, Get Happy and Guitar Notes. Her books chart new territory by providing readers with music to play and to listen to online. Join [words], Mary Amato, Luna Guitars and Ukes, and Maplewoodstock in celebrating music — and it’s free! This year, we’re excited to feature a FREE UKE GIVEAWAY (value $199) – includes free signed copy of Get Happy. No purchase necessary. Sponsored by Luna Ukes. Click here for more details.
AT MAPLEWOODSTOCK – [words] BOOTH
MAPLEWOOD MEMORIAL PARK
JULY 16 / THU / 7:30 PM
THE DEVIL WEARS CLOGS
with author Jennifer Burge
A must-read for anyone considering working abroad, Burge shares her hard earned wisdom with great wit and intelligence, roaming both the pastoral delights of Europe and the agony of the corporate world with page turning ease. This event will leave you feeling wiser and braver to explore the bigger world that starts just past the front door!
JULY 21 / TUE / 7:30 PM
GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA: THE HEMINGWAY LIBRARY EDITION
with Seán Hemingway
Hemingway’s son and grandson -the latter will be joining us- present a reprinting of the renowned author’s 1935 work along with illuminating supplementary material. Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway’s lyrical journal of a month on safari, his second major venture into nonfiction. Hemingway’s well-known interest in — and fascination with — big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip.
JULY 22 / WED / 7:30 PM
GIRL IN GLASS
with author Deanna Fei
“Deanna Fei has written three gripping tales in one–her transcendent journey as the mother of a child born way too soon; her plunge into the harsh realities of corporate greed and bumbling when a certain CEO publicly labeled her daughter a ‘distressed baby’; and her hard-won understanding of what society owes its most fragile beings. Readers will fall in love with Fei’s daughter, and come to see that she is all of our children.”
– Lisa Belkin, former NYT Motherlode blog columnist
JULY 23 / THU / 7:30 PM
THE PINE TAR GAME:
THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS,
THE NEW YORK YANKEES,
AND BASEBALL’S MOST ABSURD
AND ENTERTAINING CONTROVERSY
with author Filip Bondy
An award-winning veteran sportswriter who personally covered the Pine Tar Game looks back and explores one of the wackiest events in baseball history. Through this one fateful game, the ensuing protest, and ultimate fallout, The Pine Tar Game examines a more innocent time in professional sports, as well as the shifting tide that gave us today’s modern iteration of baseball.
JULY 26 / SUN / 2:00 PM
IT’S YOU
with author Jane Porter
From the USA Today bestselling author of the Brennan Sisters novels comes a heartwarming story about finding love and strength, even in the darkest moments.
