The main floor of the Harvard Coop.

Before the reading

During the reading

Are you in the Boston area? Come to the Harvard Coop (the university bookstore) on Wednesday, April 6 at 7 p.m. for a reading-signing event. Discount copies of my study, When Brothers Dwell in Unity: Byzantine Christianity and Homosexuality (McFarland, 2016), will be available!

Harvard, the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The “COOP” (not the Co-Op as other cooperatives are called) opened for business in 1882 in a student dorm room in Harvard Yard. The “store” moved several times in the early years as the business grew and membership increased and finally settled in its current Harvard Square location in 1906. The building was re-built in 1925 and has been the COOP’s headquarters and an icon of Harvard Square ever since.

Harvard and Yale (my alma mater), the SECOND oldest institution of higher education in the United States, have long enjoyed a friendly rivalry. I am happy to meet readers at the Harvard Coop; might it be an omen or a portent that the event at Harvard was scheduled before any events at Yale have been confirmed? Hmmm…