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  • March 2026

  • Thu 19

    Tony Tulathimutte on gender and comedy in fiction, in conversation with Hermione Hoby

    March 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, and has written for The Paris […]

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  • April 2026

  • Thu 23

    Alyssa Battistoni on capitalism and the politics of nature, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel

    April 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Alyssa Battistoni is a professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton UP 2025) and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why […]

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  • May 2026

  • Thu 21

    Paul Reitter on translating Marx’s Capital, in conversation with Arne Höcker

    May 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Paul Reitter is Professor in German Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Bambi’s Jewish Roots and Other Essays on German-Jewish Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015), On the Origins […]

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  • June 2026

  • Thu 18

    Jeff Sharlet on our slow civil war, in conversation with Nathan Schneider

    June 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times bestselling author or editor of eight books. His latest is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (2023), a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for […]

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  • August 2026

  • Thu 20

    Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein’s afterlife, in conversation with Claire Kelley

    August 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (2020) and Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (2025). She has held fellowships at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, […]

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  • November 2026

  • Thu 19

    danah boyd and Colette Perold on the federal bureaucracy

    November 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye towards how structural inequities shape […]

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