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If you missed our email over the weekend, please note that our Wed. 1/25 event with Ambassador David Scheffer has been cancelled. He had better things to do. In Cambodia. But certain other authors put their reading public first! Biographer Chip Bishop joins us tonight at 7, and the rest of the week holds a pair of visits from Frances Moore Lappé and Doc Hendley, authors who tackle crucial issues that dovetail perfectly with Brookline Climate Week.

And... Climate Week 2012 is here! Booksmith is proud to be a participant in the awareness campaign. Take a moment to check out the WaterBeacon display outside our front door. The WaterBeacon (in the third story windows of the Pierce Building across the street) is an LED light display that changes color according to how many times the word "water" is employed on Twitter. Tweet "water" and "Brookline" and the LED will flash magenta in recognition. This experimental use of social network technology introduces one possible tool for enhancing communal awareness of real-time water usage and related environmental issues.

Also, please remember that the literary world is now free to quote from and publish the works of James Joyce. At the dawn of the new year, the restraining power of grandson Stephen Joyce was abolished by English law. I don't know much at all about copyright law, much less English copyright law, but I don't need a crystal ball to tell you that gigantic, expensive James Joyce books will be released en masse in November and December.
The scholars are out of the gates.