up later this week we have romance writer here with "boston globe" love letters columnists meredith goldstein on thursday. next week on tuesday we are hosting former poet laureate robert pinsky along with a few contributors for the new anthology, the mind. next wednesday where hosting nancy for the atlas of boston history. we have many more events coming up and you can find more information on our website and in the brochures by the registers when to pick up your copy of the book tonight. tonight we're so glad to be hosting holly jackson for her new book "american radicals: how nineteenth-century counterculture shaped the nation." book page magazine calls the book magnificent saying this incisive and well-written overview of americans who protested wrong in the society deserves wide readership in many find academic studies have covered the subject but this account is an authoritative and fast-paced and visibly portrays a crucial period publishers weekly wrote electric, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how the u.s. became what it is today. holly jackson is an associate profes