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Blog
April 26, 2017
Happy spring from Hooks Book Events! Spring has sprung, bees are buzzing, birds are singing and HBE is working to build bridges in our community through our wonderful new series of Bridge Builder Events. March found us with the team from area nonprofit A WIDER CIRCLE hosting data scientist Cathy O’Neil discussing her new book, Weapons of Math Destruction. AWC supporters joined local business leaders to learn about the dark side of Big Data — the mysterious algorithms at the core of many […]
November 4, 2016
Every so often, we have the occasion to produce a public event with a very special author who has impacted people around the world or inspired a generation. With past events featuring Paul Farmer and Muhammad Yunus, we’re always blown away by the passion of our audiences. Last month’s event with Patti Smith and M Train was no exception! The Lincoln Theatre played host to an intimate conversation with Patti Smith, moderated by 9:30 Club co-owner Seth Hurwitz. We were treated to […]
September 14, 2016
It’s official — Hooks Book Events is now a Benefit Corporation in the State of Maryland. As such, we are thrilled to join the growing ranks of companies that place doing good right up there with doing well. Speaking of growing, we are pleased to report that our Bulk Book Sales business is thriving! Here’s why: Excellent customer service and competitive pricing — Read testimonials from our customers here. Unique business model — we partner with three great independent retailers (Politics & Prose, Harvard Books, Parnassus […]
July 12, 2016
Roger Lowenstein reported for The Wall Street Journal for more than a decade. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg , The New York Review of Books, Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. His books include Buffett, When Genius Failed, Origins of the Crash, While America Aged, and The End of Wall Street. He has three children and lives with his wife in Newton, Massachusetts. About America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve A tour de force of […]
June 8, 2016
Pagan Kennedy was the New York Times Magazine’s “Who Made That?” columnist, and is the author of the New York Times Notable Book Black Livingstone, the Barnes & Noble Discover pick Spinsters, and other books. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Dwell, The Nation, and elsewhere. About Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won’t spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room […]
May 11, 2016
Kenneth K. Lam / Baltimore Sun D. Watkins is a columnist for Salon. His work has been published in the New York Times, Guardian, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He holds a master’s in Education from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Baltimore. He is a college professor at the University of Baltimore and founder of the BMORE Writers Project. Watkins has been the recipient of numerous awards including Ford’s Men of Courage and a BME Fellowship. […]
May 6, 2016
Meg Jacobs is a research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Her first book, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005), won the Organization of American Historians’ Ellis W. Hawley Prize for the best book on political economy, politics, and institutions of the modern United States, as well as the New England History Association’s Best Book Award. About Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s, In Panic at the Pump, […]