TODAY: William Bulger discusses “James Michael Curley,” 3-4:30 p.m., Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester.
MONDAY: Eric Nelson discusses “The Hebrew Republic,” 7 p.m., Harvard Hillel, Smith Hall, 52 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge.
TUESDAY: Jerome Charyn reads from “The Secret life of Emily Dickinson,” 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge . . . Susan Dworkin reads from “Viking in the Wheatfield,” 7 p.m., Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge . . . Sherry Turkle, Irene Pepperberg, and others discuss “This Will Change Everything,” 7 p.m., Harvard Square Coop, Cambridge . . . Nancy Kehoe discusses “Wrestling with Our Inner Angels,” 7:30 p.m., Temple Kehillath Israel, 384 Harvard St., Brookline.
WEDNESDAY: Chang Rae-Lee discusses “The Surrendered,” 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store . . . Linda Fairstein reads from “Hell Gate,” 7 p.m., Porter Square Books . . . Sam Lipsyte reads from “The Ask,” 7 p.m., Brookline Booksmith.
THURSDAY: Holly Black (“The Poison Eaters”) and Cassandra Clare (“City of Glass”) speak, 6 p.m., Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline (benefit for Franciscan Hospital for Children; $5) . . . Mary Catherine Bateson (“Composing a Life’’), Mark Feeney (“Nixon at the Movies’’), and Michael Meltsner (“The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer’’) speak, 6:30 p.m., Cambridge Public Library.
FRIDAY: Felix Kuehn and Alex Strick van Linschoten discuss “My Life with the Taliban,” 7 p.m., Harvard Square Coop.
SATURDAY: Children’s author Sarah Lamstein (“Big Night for Salamanders”) reads, noon, Jamaicaway Books, 676 Centre St., Jamaica Plain.
For an expanded listing, visit boston.com/ae/books/blog. 
