Please note: All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Request an Author Event
Please contact the Bookstore at [email protected]
University Departments and Student Groups may request that the bookstore help support their author events. These events can be held at a university hall, outside venue, or the bookstore can be requested as the location. The bookstore will provide the books for the event and help with marketing and promotions, if needed.
Please use our online request form. There will be a fee of $75 per event charged to the hosting departments cost center to cover the associated costs of staffing, shipping, and selling of merchandise.
Alumni, Local Authors, and the Community may request that the bookstore help support their author events. These events can be held at an outside venue or the bookstore can be requested as the location. The bookstore will provide the books for the event and help with marketing and promotions. Please use our online request form.
Please note: You will be asked to sign-in to Gmail, if you aren't already, before accessing online form.
Bookstore Location
244 Thayer Street
Providence, RI
Phone: (401) 863-3168
Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event but would like an autographed book. We will do our best to accommodate your request at the author's and publisher's discretion.
Upcoming Bookstore Events
Book Launch: All Water Has Perfect Memory by Nada Samih-Rotondo
Wednesday, September 27th
4:00 pm
Join us for the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo's debut book All Water Has Perfect Memory.
Book Talk with Alumna Akemi Brodsky - The Brill Pill
Thursday, September 28th
4:00 pm
Alumna author Akemi Brodsky (Class of '08) visits the Brown Bookstore for a talk about her debut book, The Brill Pill.
Book Launch: Black Grief/White Grievance by Dr. Juliet Hooker
Monday, October 3rd
4:30 pm
Join us for the launch of Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Dr. Juliet Hooker, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science.
Dr. Hooker will be joined in conversation by Noliwe Rooks, Department Chair and Professor of Africana Studies.
Book Talk with Dr. Katherine Scheidler - Renegade Teacher
Tuesday, October 10th
4:30 pm
Dr. Katherine Scheidler comes to the Brown Bookstore to discuss her latest book, Renegade Teacher: Inside School Walls with Standards and the Test.
Book Launch: Straw Dogs of the Universe by Ye Chun
Thursday, October 19th
5:00 pm
Join the Brown Bookstore for the launch of Pushcart Prize winner Ye Chun’s newest book Straw Dogs of the Universe. Chun will be joined by poet and essayist Emily Pittinos.
Book Talk with Brown Alumna Odemi Pessu
Friday, October 20th
4:30 pm
Alumna author Odemi Pessu visits the Brown Bookstore for a talk about her new book, Force of Nature.
SJ Sindu, in Conversation with Karan Mahajan
Thursday, October 26th
5:00pm
Author SJ Sindu visits the Brown Bookstore for a conversation with faculty author Karan Mahajan, discussing Sindu's newest book The Goth House Experiment.
