Category Archives: books

Mindy Kaling, the comedian, writer and actor who plays Kelly on TV’s “The Office”, dedicates a section of her new book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me to Wellesley’s Morses Pond. She grew up in Cambridge but went to Morses Pond as a kid in the 1980′s through Wellesley Day Camp. It seems she took [...]

Daniel Handler, better known as author Lemony Snicket from the popular/creepy A Series of Unfortunate Events books, is coming to Wellesley Books next month to hawk a new young adult book called Why We Broke Up. He’ll be joined by illustrator Maira Kalman, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. The event, [...]

If that headline makes no sense to you, then you probably don’t know of author John Green, who will be kicking off his book tour in Wellesley on Jan. 10 at 7pm at Dana Hall’s Bardwell Auditorium (Wellesley Books is coordinating things, and you’ll need to jump through some hoops if you want to attend [...]

Keenan boasts that she’ll be wearing at $200 dress that she got for $8 at Shopper’s Corner. Bring your own copy of her book to have signed or buy one there that night from Wellesley Books. Shopper’s Corner accepts cash or check for its merchandise.

Paula Lee, the Wellesley author who recently self-published a comic novel call How to be a Homeless Frenchman, has followed up with us to let us know that her book has been picked up by a French distributor, who will make it available in English, in France. “It’s going to be featured at the Salon [...]

Wellesley’s Rama K. Ramaswamy has published a book of poetry called “Coming Full Circle” via Xlibris under the name RKR. You can read excerpts here. A friend of Ramaswamy’s writes: “She’s a mompreneur who paints, writes, gardens and teaches young adults, and is a scientist by training. RKR has lived in Wellesley for a number [...]