Greater Boston author readings April 14-20
SUNDAY: Lauren Scheuer ("Once Upon A Flock") reads at 1 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough … Laurie Collins ("The Pajamas of My Dreams") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Yvette Van Boven (“Homemade Summer”) reads at 2 p.m. at KitchenWares by Blackstones, 215 Newbury St.
MONDAY: Caron Levis ("Stuck With the Blooz") reads at 12 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Simon Tofield (“Simon's Cat in Kitten Chaos”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Adam Grant (“Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
TUESDAY: Ann Downer-Hazell and Shennen Bersani ("Shark Baby") read at 10 a.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford. … Douglas Bauer ("What Happens Next: Matters of Life and Death") reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Michael Charney ("Chasing Glenn Beck ") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Andre Aciman (“Harvard Square”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Peter Eichstaedt (“Above the Din of War: Afghans Speak About Their Lives, Their Country, and Their Future--and Why America Should Listen”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Henriette Lazardis Power (“Clover House”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
WEDNESDAY: Maureen Stanton ("Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider's Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting") reads at 6:30 p.m. at Langley-Adams Library, 185 Main St., Groveland … Elinor Lipman (“The View from Penthouse B”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Jason M. Rubin (“The Grave & the Gay”) reads at 7 p.m. at Malden Public Library, 36 Salem St., Malden … Debbie Spingarn ("Another Spin") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Michael Chabon (“Telegraph Avenue”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Murray Function Room, Yawkey Center, 140 Commonwealth Ave. … Victoria Brittain (“Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror”) reads at 7 p.m. at the First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge … Larry Ruttman (“American Jews and America's Game”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Laurie Edwards (“In the Kingdom of the Sick”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
THURSDAY: William J. Craig (“A History of the Boston Braves: A Time Gone By”) reads at 2 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley … Sally Snowman (“Boston Light: A Historical Perspective”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Tufts Library, 46 Broad St., Weymouth … Nathaniel Rich (“Odds Against Tomorrow”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Linda Barnes ("The Perfect Ghost") at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Caleb Daniloff (“Running Ransom Road”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Art Solomon (“Making it in the Minors”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
FRIDAY: Stephen Masse ("Short Circus") reads at 10 a.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Heather Paxson (“The Life of Cheese”) reads at 1:30 p.m. at MIT Museum, 265 Mass. Ave., Cambridge … Jason Ananda Josephson (“The Invention of Religion in Japan”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Becky Cooper (“Mapping Manhattan: A Love (And Sometimes Hate) Story”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … John Parrish ("Autopsy of a War") and Laura Harrington ("Alice Bliss") read at 7 p.m. at The Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Boston
SATURDAY: Lisa Capone ("Inland: The True Story of a North Atlantic Humpback Whale") reads at 11 a.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Len Gengel and Cherylanne Gengel ("Heartache and Hope in Haiti: The Britney Gengel Story") read at 1 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough … Randi Rotjan ("Underwater Eden") reads at 1 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Martha Collins (“Blue Front”), Kathleen Flenniken (“Plume”), and Sharon Bryan (“Sharp Stars”) read at 2:30 p.m. at Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak St., Brockton … Elissa Altman (“Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley ($10 ticket required)
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Greater Boston author readings May 5-11
SUNDAY: Patti Moreno (“Gardening by Cuisine: An Organic-Food Lover’s Guide to Sustainable Living”) reads at 2 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Jill Teitelman (“Saving Gracie”) reads at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Arthur Sze (“The Ginkgo Light”) and Gail Mazur (“Figures in a Landscape”) read at 2:15 p.m. at Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex St., Salem ... Yusef Komunyakaa (“The Chameleon Couch”), Kevin Goodan (“Winter Tenor”), and Erica Funkhouser (Earthly) read at 3:45 p.m. at Peabody Essex Museum … Dennis Lehane (“”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Cohasset High School auditorium, 143 Pond St., Cohasset (free tickets at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Road, Cohasset)
MONDAY: Michael Cunningham (“In Safe Hands”) reads at 10:30 a.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Eve Ensler (“In the Body of the World”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/eve_ensler/) … Anne Easter Smith (“Royal Mistress”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, Copley … Elinor Lipman (“I Can't Complain” and “The View from Penthouse B”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … W. Bernard Carlson (“Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
TUESDAY: Daniel C. Dennett (“Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/daniel_c._dennett/) … Maureen Stanton ("Killer Stuff and Tons of Money") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Tina Cassidy (“Jackie After O”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 660 Beacon St. … Ace Atkins (“Robert B. Parker's Wonderland”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 1 Worcester Rd., Framingham … Caroline Leavitt (“Is This Tomorrow”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Ru Freeman (“On Sal Mal Lane”) and Nichole Bernier (“The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Douglas Trevor (“Girls I Know”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
WEDNESDAY: Randy Susan Meyers (“The Comfort of Lies”) reads at 11 a.m. at Mission Park, Flynn House, 805 Huntington Ave., Boston … Fiona Maazel (“Woke Up Lonely”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … David Gillham (“City of Women”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Mitchell Zuckoff ("Frozen in Time") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Wendy Drexler (“Western Motel”), Ellen Steinbaum (“Container Gardening”) and Christopher Locke (“Waiting for Grace and Other Poems”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Dani Monroe (“Untapped Talent: Unleashing the Power of the Hidden Workforce”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith ... Greg Gibson ("The Old Turk’s Load'' ) reads at 7:30 p.m. in the Harbor Room at 8 Norwood Court, Gloucester.
THURSDAY: Caroline Leavitt (“Is This Tomorrow”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 660 Beacon St. … Gary Greenberg (“The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Bob Spitz (“Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley ($10 ticket) … Jennifer Margulis (“The Business of Baby”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Juliette Fay (“The Shortest Way Home”) reads at 7 p.m. in the Jones Room, Tufts Library, 46 Broad St., Weymouth … Linda Barnes (“The Perfect Ghost”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … Nina Vasan (“Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation”) reads at 8 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
FRIDAY: Claire Messud (“The Woman Upstairs”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Joshua Harmon (“Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie”), Jean-Paul Pecqueur (“The Case Against Happiness”) and Joshua Ware (“Imaginary Portraits”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Damien Echols (“Life After Death”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Virginia Pye (“River of Dust”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Anne Fowler (“Liz, Wear Those Pearl Earrings”), Carolyn Gregory (“Open Letters”), Bill Thibodeau (“American Icon and Other Poems”) read at 7:30 p.m. at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St., Jamaica Plain
SATURDAY: Jennifer Donehey ("An Octopus Named Mom") reads at 1 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Larry Tye (“Superman: The High-flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero”) reads at 1 p.m. at Temple Isaiah, 55 Lincoln St., Lexington … Donna Thorland ("The Turncoat") reads at 2 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Michael Stedman (“A For Argonaut”) reads at 2:30 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford
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Greater Boston author readings April 28-May 4
SUNDAY: Len and Cherylanne Gengel ("Heartache and Hope in Haiti - The Britney Gengel Story") read at 1 pm at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough …
Dana Cameron ("Seven Kinds of Hell") and Toni Kelner ("An Apple For The Creature") read at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Margaret Roach (“The Backyard Parables”) and Katrina Kenison (“Magical Journey”) read at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Richard Johnson (“Field of Our Fathers: An Illustrated History of Fenway Park”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Cohasset Historical Society, 109 South Main St., Cohasset … Lucy Knisley (“Relish”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
MONDAY: Scott Britz-Cunningham (“Code White”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Samantha Wilde ("I'll Take What She Has") reads at 7 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester (Rsvp to 781-721-5933 or staff@bookendswinchester) … Sarumathi Jayaraman (“Behind the Kitchen Door”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Patricia Volk (“Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
TUESDAY: Robin Hobb (“Blood of Dragons”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, Copley … Barbara Shapiro (“The Art Forger”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Mitchell Zuckoff (“Frozen in Time”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Linda Barnes (“The Perfect Ghost”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 1 Worcester Rd., Framingham … Nadeem Aslam (“The Blind Man's Garden: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Bernice Lerner, Kevin Ryan and Karen Bohlin (“Happiness and Virtue Beyond East and West”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Julie Wu (“The Third Son”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books
WEDNESDAY: Nathaniel Philbrick (“Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution”) reads at 6 p.m. at Coolidge Corner Theatre ($5 tickets) … Katherine Hall Page (“The Body in the Piazza”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Stellina restaurant, 47 Main St., Watertown … Liz Benedict, Mameve Medwed, and Charlotte Silver (“What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gift That Mattered Most”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Valerie Gates (“The Other Colors: An ABC Book”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley
THURSDAY: Jane Roper (“Double Time”) reads at 7 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Alexandra Aldrich (“The Astor Orphan”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Fred Waitzkin with Anita Shreve (“The Dream Merchant”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Julie Wu (“The Third Son”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Selena Coppock (“The New Rules for Blondes: Highlights from a Fair-Haired Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley
FRIDAY: Joe Hill (“NOS4A2”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Anne Easter Smith (“Royal Mistress”) reads at 7 p.m. at Jabberwocky Bookshop, 50 Water St., Newburyport … Tracy K. Smith (“Life on Mars”), Nick Flynn (“Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”), and Jill McDonough (“Where You Live”) read at 7:30 p.m. at Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex St., Salem … Timothy Gager (“Treating a Sick Animal”), Bridgit Brown, Kim Triedman (“The Other Room”), and Tom Cho (“Look Who’s Morphing”) read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge
SATURDAY: Eve LaPlante (“Marmee and Louisa”) reads at 10:30 a.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough … Dale T. Phillips (“A Shadow on the Wall”) reads at 11 a.m. at the Used Book Superstore, 256 Cambridge St., Burlington … Howie Carr (“Rifleman”) reads at 11 a.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Toni Buzzeo (“Stay Close to Mama”) reads at 1 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Dale Stanten (“The Hooker's Daughter”) reads at 2:30 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Neville Frankel (“Bloodlines”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Sharon Olds (“Stag’s Leap”), Terrance Hayes (“Lighthead”), and Eduardo C. Corral (“Slow Lightning”) read at 7:30 p.m. at First Universality Church of Salem, 211 Bridge St., Salem
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Greater Boston author readings April 21-27
SUNDAY: John Boyne (“The House of Special Purpose”) reads at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Tatiana Holway (“The Flower of Empire”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Lawrence Millman ("Fascinating Fungi of New England") reads at 3:30 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford
MONDAY: Maria Termini (“Driving Curiosity: On the Road to Central America”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library, 300 North Harvard St., Allston … Joe Gallo (“Boston Bronze & Stone Speak to Us”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Adams Street Branch, Library, 690 Adams St., Dorchester … Sarah Smith ("The Other Side of Dark"), Clea Simon ("Parrots Prove Deadly"), and Edith Maxwell ("Speaking of Murder") read at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Elissa Altman (“Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 660 Beacon St. … Charles Coe (“Picnic on the Moon”), Jennifer Barber (“Given Away”), and David Daniel (“Seven-Star Bird”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Peter Spiers (“Master Class: Living Longer, Stronger, and Happier”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Peabody Public Library, 82 Main St., Peabody … Jennifer Haigh (“News From Heaven”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Ken Kalfus (“Equilateral: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
TUESDAY: Bob Sullivan (“Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day and What You Can Do About It”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Copley … Joe Gallo (“Boston Bronze & Stone Speak to Us”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 7 p.m. at the Lynn Public Library, 5 North Common St., Lynn … Brian Switek (“My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Kathleen Spivack (“With Robert Lowell and His Circle”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
WEDNESDAY: Patrick McGrath (“Constance: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Linda Barnes (“The Perfect Ghost”) and Daniel Palmer (“Stolen”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Nina Vasan (“Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
THURSDAY: Robert Polito (“”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Gasson Hall rm. 305, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave. … Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (“The Cult of Thinness”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Sq., Lexington ($10 ticket) … Christopher Daley (“Sacco-Vanzetti Revisited”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset … Craig Surman (“Fast Minds: How to Thrive If You Have ADHD (Or Think You Might)”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Lee Smolin (“Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Justin Martin (“Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted”) reads at 7 p.m. at the West Roxbury Branch of the BPL, 1961 Centre St., West Roxbury … Henriette Lazaridis Power (“The Clover House”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Ann Hood (“The Obituary Writer”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … David Rohde (“Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Allison Amend (“A Nearly Perfect Copy”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Tatiana Holway ("The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created") reads at 7 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St. Winchester.
FRIDAY: Anthony Vaver ("Bound With An Iron Chain: The Untold Story of How The British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America") reads at 10:30 a.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Susan A. Ostrander (“Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City: Somerville, MA”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Evgeny Morozov (“To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Gregory Lawless (“Foreclosure”) and Jonathan Weinert (“13 Small Apostrophes”) read at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham
SATURDAY: Kyle Darcy ("Under Current Conditions") reads at 12 noon at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Ann Hood ("The Obituary Writer") reads at 1 pm at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough … Roseanne Montillo ("The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece") reads at 2 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Mo Willems (“That Is Not a Good Idea!”) reads at 3 p.m. at Mass Bay Community College, McKenzie Auditorium, 50 Oakland St., Wellesley ($5 tickets)
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Greater Boston author readings April 7-13
SUNDAY: David A. Kelly (“Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud that Changed Baseball”) reads at 1 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Anthony di Mari and Nora Yoo (“Operative Design: A Catalog of Spatial Verbs”) read at 1 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … William Martin (“The Lincoln Letter”) reads at 2 p.m. at Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Ellen Zachos (“Backyard Foraging”) reads at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Elizabeth Graver (“The End of the Point”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Daniel L. Everett (“Language: The Cultural Tool”) reads at 4 p.m. at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset (rsvp at www.cohassetlibrary.org or 781-383-1348) … Susie Davidson and Edgar Krasa ("The Music Man of Terezin: The Story of Rafael Schaechter”) read at 7 p.m. at Temple Israel, 145 Hartford St., Natick
MONDAY: Edie Clark (“The Place He Made”) reads at 11 a.m. at the Belmont Public Library, 336 Concord Ave., Belmont … Nancy Kurshan (“Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Connolly Branch of the Boston Public Library, 433 Centre St., Jamaica Plain … Hallie Ephron ("There Was An Old Woman") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Reyna Clancy, Myfanwy Collins (“I Am Holding Your Hand”), Chris Marstall, and William Pierce (“Heartwrap”) read at 7 p.m. at Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass. Ave., Cambridge … John Hunter (“World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements”) reads at 7 p.m. at Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge … Jim Wallis (“On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Anne Lamott (“Help, Thanks, Wow”) reads at 7:30 pm, First Parish on the Common, 75 The Great Road, Bedford
TUESDAY: Paul Wainwright ("A Space For Faith: The Colonial Meetinghouses of New England") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Aleksandar Hemon (“The Book of My Lives”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Nancy Kricorian (“All the Light There Was”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ann Hood (“The Obituary Writer”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Christopher Castellani ("All This Talk of Love") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Meg Muckenhoupt (“Boston’s Gardens and Green Spaces”) reads at 7 p.m. at Winchester Public Library, 80 Washington St., Winchester … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger”) read at 7:30 p.m. at Melrose Public Library, 69 West Emerson St., Melrose
WEDNESDAY: Angie Cruz (“Let It Rain Coffee”) and M. NourbeSe Philip (“Zong!”) read at 4:30 p.m. at Tufts University in Cabot Intercultural Center Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford … Linda Barnes (“The Perfect Ghost”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Richard J. Samuels (“3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Hallie Ephron ("There Was An Old Woman") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Judy Muir (“Live Wires: Insulating Your Child Against College Frenzy, Achievement Mania & Media Explosion”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Peter Wortsman (“Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Juliette Fay (“The Shortest Way Home”) reads at 7 p.m. at Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Charles Coe (“All Sins Forgiven”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
THURSDAY: Michael Wood (“Film: A Very Short Invitation”) reads at 4:30 p.m. at Tufts University, Pearson Hall, Room 104 … Jane Green (“Family Pictures”) reads at 6 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley … Paul Reid (“The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Ladette Randolph (“Haven’s Wake”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Dick Lehr (“Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss”) reads at 7 p.m. at The Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … Cynthia Wight Rossano (“Durable Values: Selected Writings of Peter J. Gomes”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Robin LaFevers (“His Fair Assassin #2: Dark Triumph”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley
FRIDAY: Ron Goodman ("Boston's Downtown Movie Palaces") reads at 10:30 a.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Tatiana Holway (“The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 6 p.m. at Harvard University Extension School, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford St., Cambridge … Elissa Altman (“Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … John Hanc (“The B.A.A. at 125: The Official History of the Boston Athletic Association, 1887-2012”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Evan Glasson (“Vital Pursuits”), Christie Ann Reynolds (“Revenge for Revenge”), and Darcie Dennigan (“Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse”) read at Brookline Booksmith at 7 p.m.
SATURDAY: Jef Czekaj (“”) reads at 10:30 a.m. at the Maynard Public Library, 77 Nason St., Maynard … Adam Pachter ("Final Fenway Fiction") reads at 12 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Erin Thorne (“Behind The Wheel: And Other Stories”) reads at 1 p.m. at The Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … John Fiske ("The Pilots' Guide to Airports of Historic Massachusetts") reads at 2 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … William Martin (“The Lincoln Letter”), Maryanne O’Hara (“Cascade”), and Barbara Shapiro (“The Art Forger”) read at 2 p.m. at the Maynard Public Library, 77 Nason St., Maynard … Paul Reid ("The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965") reads at 3pm at Winchester Public Library, 80 Washington St., Winchester … Diana Der-Hovanessian (“Dancing at the Monastery”) reads at 3 p.m. at the Milford Public Library, 80 Spruce St., Milford … Gregory Maguire (“Out of Oz”) reads at 3:30 p.m. at the Maynard Public Library, 77 Nason St., Maynard … Yvette Van Boven (“Home Made Summer”) reads at 4 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
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Greater Boston autor readings March 31-April 6
SUNDAY: No events
MONDAY: Charlotte Gordon ("Mistress Bradstreet:The Untold Life of America's First Poet") reads at 6:30 p.m. at Langley-Adams Library, 185 Main St., Groveland … Michael Casey (“The Million Dollar Hole”), Victor Howes, Doug Holder (“Poems From the Left Bank”), and Tomas O’Leary (“Fools at the Funeral”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard-Yenching, Common Room 136, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge … Hallie Ephron (“There Was an Old Woman”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ed Epstein (“The Annals of Unsolved Crimes”) reads with Errol Morris at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Jill McCorkle (“Life After Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
TUESDAY: Randy Susan Meyers (“The Comfort of Lies”), Ann Hood (“The Obituary Writer”), Meredith Goldstein (“Singles”) and Nichole Bernier (“The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Hallie Ephron (“There Was an Old Woman”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 1 Worcester Rd., Framingham … Oliver Horovitz (“An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Linda Greenlaw (“Lifesaving Lessons”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Lucine Kasbarian (“Armenia: A Rugged Land, an Enduring People”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Armenian Library and Museum of America, 65 Main St., Watertown … Jonathan Weinert (“Thirteen Small Apostrophes”), Lisa Gruenberg, Marsha Pomerantz (“The Illustrated Edge”), Kathleen Crowley, and Catherine Stearns (“The Transparency of Skin”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books
WEDNESDAY: Mundy (“The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family”) reads at 3 p.m. at First Parish Church, Cambridge … David Sheff (“Clean”) reads at 6 p.m. at Coolidge Corner Theatre (required tickets at brooklinebooksmith.com/tickets or (617) 566-6660) …
THURSDAY: Tom Angleberger ("Art2-D2's Guide to Folding and Doodling: An Origami Yoda Activity Book") reads at 3:30 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester (rsvp to 781-721-5933 or staff@bookendswinchester.com) …
Sheryl Sandberg (“Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at
brooklinebooksmith.com/tickets or (617) 566-6660) … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 6 p.m. at the National Archives, 380 Trapelo Rd., Waltham … Juliette Fay (“The Shortest Way Home”) and Nichole Bernier (“The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D”) read at 7 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Miriam Glassman (“Call Me Oklahoma”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Hallie Ephron “There Was an Old Woman”) and Jacqueline Winspear (“Leaving Everything Most Loved”) read at 7 p.m. in the Jones Room, Tufts Library, 46 Broad St., Weymouth … A.C. Grayling ("The God Argument") reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Megan Marshall (“Margaret Fuller: A New American Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
FRIDAY: Carol Kaufmann (“Safari: A Photicular Book”) and Jennifer Holland (“Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories From the Animal Kingdom”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Nia Vardalos (“Instant Mom”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 1 Worcester Rd., Framingham … Christina Schwartz (“The Edge of the Earth”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Timothy Gager (“Treating a Sick Animal”), Brian Sousa (“Almost Gone”), Dan Memmolo (“Fist City”), and Betsy Retallack read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge
SATURDAY: Tom Angleberger (“Art2-D2's Guide to Folding and Doodling”) reads at 10 a.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Dan Shaughnessy ("Francona: The Red Sox Years") reads at 1 p.m. at Tatnuck Booksellers, 18 Lyman St., Westborough
… Tom Angleberger (“Art2-D2's Guide to Folding and Doodling”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Amy Herzog (“Knit to Flatter”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Masonic Hall, 1950 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
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Greater Boston author readings March 24-30
March 24 – March 30
SUNDAY: Lisa Genova (“Love Anthony”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Kristopher Jansma (“The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards”) and Jessica Francis Kane (“The Pursuit of Truth”) read at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Matt Tavares ("Becoming Babe Ruth") reads at 2 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St. Winchester … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey: America’s Most Wanted Gangster & the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 3 p.m. at the Hingham Public Library 66 Leavitt St., Hingham (required reservation, call 781-741-1405, x2650)
MONDAY: Bruce Macbain (“The Bull Slayer”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Richard Howe and Chaim Rosenberg ("Legendary Locals of Lowell") read at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury
TUESDAY: Louisa Hall (“The Carriage House: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Tuesday, March 26: Melissa Weiksnar ("Heroin's Puppet: Amy and Her Disease") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 7 p.m. at The Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … Lloyd Schwartz (“Music In and On The Air”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books …Michael Tougias (“A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and Incredible Rescue”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Westborough Public Library, 55 West Main St., Westborough … Owen King (“Double Feature”) and Amity Gaige (“Schroder”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books
WEDNESDAY: Joyce Carol Oates (“The Accursed”) reads at 6 p.m. at Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at Brookline Booksmith) … Gish Jen (“Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
THURSDAY: Caroline Kennedy (“Poems to Learn by Heart”) reads at 6 p.m. at Coolidge Corner Theatre (tickets at Brookline Booksmith) … Sabin Willet (“Abide With Me”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Jill McCorkle (“Life After Life”) and Lynne Sharon Schwartz (“Two-Part Interventions”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Maria Konnikova (“Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Kathleen Spivack (“With Robert Lowell and His Circle”) reads at 7 p.m. at Boston University Barnes & Noble, 660 Beacon St. … David Burstein (“Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Jeff Wise (“Extreme Fear: the Science of Your Mind in Danger”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Peabody Institute Library, 82 Main St, Peabody
FRIDAY: … Diana Der-Hovanessian (“Armenian Poetry of Our Time”) reads at 1 p.m. at 745 Commonwealth Ave., Room 625 … Jeanne Theoharis (“The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Andrea Pitzer (“The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Jill McCorkle (“Life After Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
SATURDAY: Sylvia Sasso ("The Topless Muffin") reads at 1 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Vicki Cain ("Travels with Judy: In Search of Steinbeck's America") reads at 1 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 1 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough … Kathryn Jacob ("King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age") reads at 2 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury
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Greater Boston author readings March 17-23
MONDAY: Mary Beth Keane (“Fever”) and Jeanine Cummins (“The Crooked Branch”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ben Nugent (“Good Kids”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
TUESDAY: Mari Passananti ("The K Street Affair") reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Sabin Willett (“Abide With Me”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Miriam Katin (“Letting It Go”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Joseph Gallo ("Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Elizabeth Graver (“The End of the Point”) and Brian Sousa (“Almost Gone: Stories”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Joan Johnson-Freese (“Educating America’s Military”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
WEDNESDAY: Megan Marshall (“Margaret Fuller: A New American Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Lou Marinoff (“The Inner Philosopher: Conversations on Philosophy's Transformative Power”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Eve LaPlante (“Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Weston Public Library, 786 Washington St., Weston … Matthew Goodman (“Eighty Days”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Susannah Cahalan (“Brain on Fire”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Michael J. Tougias (“A Storm Too Soon”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Winchester Public Library, 80 Washington St., Winchester
THURSDAY: Miklos Jako ("Computer How-To For Normal People") reads at 2 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Scott Magoon (“Mean Mike”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
FRIDAY: Demetri Martin (“Point Your Face at This”) reads at 3 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 660 Beacon St. … Bruce Macbain (“The Bull Slayer”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Guy Fraker (“Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
SATURDAY: Mark Ammons, Christine Eskilson, Daniel Moses Luft, and Cheryl Marceau ("Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon") read at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Jacqueline Davies (“The Candy Smash”) reads at 3:30 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Dave Brigham, Beth Chariton, Elizabeth Christopher, and Jim Corrigan (“Movable Feasts”) read at 7 p.m. at The Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville
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Porter Square Books on the block
By Paul S. Makishima
Globe Staff
Porter Square Books, which has become an important outpost of literary life in Greater Boston in the past decade, has put itself up for sale.
The four owners of the Cambridge store said that their business is healthy but that with most of the group being around retirement age it seemed like the right time to begin looking for a successor.
Carol Stoltz, store president, said Tuesday that she and co-owners Dale Sczceblowski, who serves as general manager, Jane Dawson, who is a floor manager and oversees personnel, and Jane Jacobs, a buyer, have worked hard to make the store a community institution, sponsoring author readings and book events almost daily. And they want to ensure that any new owners will continue their work and that store customers will experience no jarring changes after the sale.
"We are very serious about keeping Porter Square Books just as it is,'' said Stoltz, who also works as a book buyer. In fact, she said, most of the owners would like to continue working at the store through any transition and perhaps even beyond.
The 4,500-square-foot store was opened in 2004 after a group of staffers from the Concord Bookshop got together and decided to try to make a go of it on their own in Cambridge.
Porter Square Books has hired Paul Siegenthaler of Ridge Hill Partners, a Needham a boutique merger and acquisition intermediary firm, to help with the transaction. Ridge Hill helped broker the sales of New England Mobile Book Fair, Harvard Book Store, and Wellesley Booksmith.
Greater Boston author readings March 10-16
SUNDAY:
Thomas Bransten (“A Slight Case of Guilt”) reads at 1 p.m. at The Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … Jodi Daynard (“The Midwife’s Revolt”) reads at 1 p.m. at the Needham Historical Society, 1147 Central Ave., Needham … Randy Susan Meyers (“The Comfort of Lies”) reads at 2 p.m. at Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Linda Marshall (“The Passover Lamb”) reads at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Charlotte Hebert (“Meditate and Experience God: Saints, Scriptures, and Science Point the Way”) reads at 3 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, 24 Lyman St., Westborough
MONDAY: Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson (“Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice”) reads at 7 p.m. at Lexington High School, 251 Waltham St., Lexington ($8.50 tickets at www.backpagesbooks.com) … Anne Carson (“Red Doc>”) reads at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church, 1446 Mass. Ave., Cambridge ($5 tickets at Harvard Book Store)
TUESDAY: Jane Smiley (“Pie in the Sky”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Taiye Selasi (“Ghana Must Go”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Elizabeth Graver (“End of the Point”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Alison Johnson McClellan ("Falling for Johnny") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Alice Hoffman (“The Dovekeepers”) reads at 7:30pm at Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton St., Newton
WEDNESDAY: Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 6 p.m. at Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at Harvard Book Store) … Domenica Ruta (“With or Without You”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Lucinda Rosenfeld (“The Pretty One: A Novel About Sisters”) and Rajesh Parameswaran (“I Am An Executioner: Love Stories”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Elizabeth Graver (“The End of the Point”) and Jennifer Haigh (“News From Heaven”) read at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Carl Hobert ("Raising Global IQ: Preparing our Students for a Shrinking Planet") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Rashid Khalidi (“Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East”) reads at 8 p.m. at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge
THURSDAY: Elizabeth Graver (“The End of the Point”) reads at 4:30 p.m. in the reading room of Boston College’s O’Neill Library, 140 Commonwealth Ave. … Stephanie Schorow (“Drinking Boston: A History of the City and Its Spirits”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library … Megan Marshall (“Margaret Fuller: A New American Life”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Robert Gerst (“Make Film History: Rewrite, Reshoot, and Recut the World’s Greatest Films”) reads at 7 p.m. at Weston Public Library, 786 Washington St., Weston … Shereen El-Feki (“Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 7 p.m. at the Public Library of Brookline, 361 Washington St., Brookline … Lillian Faderman (“My Mother's Wars”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Ladette Randolph (“Haven’s Wake”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books
FRIDAY: James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 1 p.m. at the Union Club, 8 Park St. … Marjorie Heins (“Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Mike McCormack (“Notes from a Coma: A Novel”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
SATURDAY: Cynthia Neale ("Norah: The Making of an Irish-American Woman in 19th-Century New York") reads at 12 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Stephen Puleo ("The Caning") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Nicole Terez Dutton (“If One of Us Should Fall”), Ifeanyi Menketti (“Of Altair, the Bright Light”), and William Orem (“Our Purpose in Speaking”) read at 2:30 p.m. at the Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak St., Brockton
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Greater Boston author readings March 3-9
SUNDAY: Linda Marshall (“The Passover Lamb”) reads at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Cal Armistead (“Being Henry David”) reads at 2 p.m. at Willow Books, 279 Great Rd., Acton … Jennifer Haigh (“News From Heaven”) reads at 3 p.m. at The Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … Kathryn Miles (“All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship”) reads at 3 p.m. at the Hingham Public Library, 66 Leavitt St., Hingham
MONDAY: Jennifer Haigh (“News From Heaven”), Michael Lowenthal (“The Paternity Test”), Lauren Slater (“Welcome to My Country”), and Kaitlin Solimine (“Empire of Glass”) read at 6 p.m. at the Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass. Ave., Cambridge … Erin Hunter (“Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #1: The Sun Trail”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Cambridge Public Library … Jennifer Barber (“Given Away”) and Valerie Duff (“To the New World”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge … B. A. Shapiro (“The Art Forger”) reads at 7 p.m. at The Weston Public Library, 786 Washington St., Weston … Ron Currie (“Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
WEDNESDAY: Ann Hood (“The Obituary Writer”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Stellina, 47 Main St., Watertown … Christopher Burns ("Island Wilderness: Imagining the Early Years of Martha's Vineyard") reads at 6:30 p.m. at Langley-Adams Library, 185 Main St., Groveland … Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Alice Hoffman, Lee Martin, and John McNally(“Shadow Show: Tribute to Ray Bradbury”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Dick Lehr ("Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands
THURSDAY: Ruta Sepetys (“Out of the Easy”) reads at 1:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Public Library and 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Elizabeth Hodges (“What the River Means”), Kadija George (“Write Black, Write British”), Irina Mashinsky (“Volk”) Brian Sousa (“Almost Gone”) read at 3 p..m. at the Boston Public Library, Boylston … Stephen Puleo (“The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War”) reads at 6 p.m. at the National Archives, 380 Trapelo Rd., Waltham … Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (“Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice”) read at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St., Wellesley … Jamie Quatro (“I Want to Show You More”) and Megan Mayhew Bergman (“Birds of a Lesser Paradise”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Sabin Willet (“Abide With Me”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Eleanor Morse ("White Dog Fell from the Sky") reads at 7 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Kathleen Winter (“Annabel”), Matthew Gavin Frank (“Barolo”), Dexter Booth (“Scratching the Ghost”), Elizabeth Hiscox, Katie Cortese, Caitlin Horrocks (“This Is Not Your City”), Todd Kaneko, Hugh Martin, Claire McQuerry, Michele Poulos (“A Disturbance in the Air”), and Robby Taylor read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
FRIDAY: Iris Jamahl Dunkle (“Gold Passage”), David Groff (“Theory of Devolution”), Matt Mauch (“Prayer Book”) Ross Gay (“Bringing the Shovel Down”) and Michael Waters (“Gospel Night”) read at 7 p.m. at Old South Church, 645 Boylston St. … George Saunders (“Tenth of December”) reads at 8 p.m. at Newtonville Books
SATURDAY: Emily Bernard (“Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance”) reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … William Banfield (“Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again?”) reads at 3:30 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Rob Roberge (“Cost of Living”), Amber Sparks (“May We Shed These Human Bodies”), Stephen Dau (“Book of Jonas”) and Thea Goodman (“The Sunshine When She’s Gone”), and Steve Almond (“Candyfreak”) read at 4:30 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … James Tadd Adcox, Sam Cha, John Cotter, Melissa Febos, Elisa Gabbert, Robert Kloss, Vanessa Veselka, and Adrian Todd Zuniga read at 5:30 p.m. at Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass. Ave., Cambridge … Sy Safransky (“The Mysterious Life of the Heart”), Krista Bremer, Andrew Boyd (“Beautiful Trouble”), and Lidia Yuknavitch (“Dora”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
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Greater Boston author readings Feb. 24-March 2
SUNDAY: Robert Cox and Jacob Walker (“Massachusetts Cranberry Culture”) read at 2 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Margaret Roach (“The Backyard Parables”) and Katrina Kenison (“Magical Journey”) read at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Rosie Schaap (“Drinking With Men”) reads at 4 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Andrew Bacevich (“The Short American Century”) reads at 4 p.m. at Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset (rsvp at 781-383-1348)
MONDAY: Andrew Solomon (“Far From the Tree”) reads at 12 p.m. in Marran Theater on Lesley’s Doble Campus, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge … Burke Lennihan ("Your Natural Medicine Cabinet: A Practical Guide To Drug-Free Remedies For Common Ailments") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Faye George (“Voices From King Philip's War”) reads at 7 p.m. in the Jones Room, Tufts Library, 46 Broad St., Weymouth … Jack Gray (“Pigeon in a Crosswalk: Tales of Anxiety and Accidental Glamour”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
TUESDAY: Don Lee ("The Collective") and Stephanie Reents ("The Kissing List") read at 4:30 p.m. at Wellesley College, Newhouse Center, 106 Central St., Wellesley … Tom Farmer and Marty Foley (“A Murder in Wellesley”) read at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon at the Boston Public Library, Copley … Andre Dubus III ("Townie") reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Kellie Carter Jackson (“Screening Slavery: Reconciling History and Hollywood for Public Consumption”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Cambridge Public Library … Hester Kaplan (“The Tell”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Cory Doctorow (“Homeland”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Jodi Picoult (“The Storyteller”) reads at 7 p.m. at Walsh Middle School, 301 Brook St., Framingham … Abi Maxwell (“Lake People”) and Indira Ganesan (“As Sweet as Honey”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
WEDNESDAY: James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 10 a.m. at St. Camillus Church Parish Hall, 1175 Concord Turnpike, Arlington … Jodi Picoult (“The Storyteller”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theatre ($5 tickets at brooklinebooksmith.com/tickets or 617-566-6660) … Steven M. Southwick and Dennis S. Charney (“Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges”) read at 7 p.m. at First Parish, Cambridge, 3 Church St. … Mahzarin H. Banaji (“Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Gordon A. Martin Jr. ("Count Them One By One") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands …
THURSDAY: David Roberts (“Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon at the Boston Public Library, Copley … Jennifer Haigh (“News from Heaven”) reads at 6:45 at the Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library, 12 Sedgwick St. … Phil Lapsley (“Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Marguerite Bouvard (“Invisible Wounds of War: Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Tehila Liberman (“Venus in the Afternoon”) and Jennifer Barber (“Given Away”) read at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Juliette Fay (“The Shortest Way Home”) and Randy Susan Meyers (“The Comfort of Lies”) read at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord
FRIDAY: Randy Susan Meyers (“The Comfort of Lies”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Barbara Crooker (“More”), Mark Pawlak (“Go to the Pine: Quoddy Journals 2005 – 2010”), and Alan Smith Soto (“Libro del Lago”) read at 7:30 p.m. at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St., Jamaica Plain ($5 suggested donation) … Timothy Gager (“Treating a Sick Animal”), Kristen Tsetsi (“Pretty Much True”), Mignon Ariel King, Michelle Cheever (“You’ll Miss Me But That’s Good”) read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Art Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge
SATURDAY: James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 10 a.m. at the Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple (“Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, and Other Female Villains”) read at 2 p.m. at the Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St., Wellesley … Richard Vacca ("The Boston Jazz Chronicles") and Maria S. Judge ("Jake Hanna: The Rhythm and Wit of a Swinging Jazz Drummer") read at 2 p.m. at the Next Door Theatre, 40 Cross St., Winchester
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Greater Boston author readings Feb. 17-23
SUNDAY: Leana Wen ("When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests") reads at 1 p.m. at The Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville
TUESDAY: Tracy K. Smith (“Life on Mars”) reads at 4 p.m. in the Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, Tufts University, Medford … John D. Spooner (“No One Ever Told Us That”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge … William Martin ("The Lincoln Letter") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Wendy Francis (“Three Good Things”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Leana Wen and Josh Kosowsky (“When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store …
WEDNESDAY: Manil Suri (“The City of Devi”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Meena Alexander and Romy Ruukel (“Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Scott Haas (“Back Of The House: The Secret Life of a Restaurant ”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
THURSDAY: Charles Dubow (“Indiscretion”) and William Kuhn (“Mrs. Queen Takes the Train”) read at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, Copley
… Suketu Mehta (“Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found”), Rajesh Parameswaran (“I Am an Executioner: Love Stories”), and Rishi Reddi (“Karma and Other Stories”) read at 6:30 p.m. at the Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex St., Salem ($10 ticket; free to museum members and Salem residents) … Lawrence Millman (“Hiking to Siberia: Curious Tales of Travel and Travelers”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge … Lawrence Friedman (“The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Tom Daley (“Shim”) and Elizabeth Quinlan (“Promise Supermarket”) read at 7 p.m. at Select Café, 2 Belgrade Ave., Roslindale … Debbie Sullivan and Erica Dumont (“Legendary Locals of Weymouth”) read at 7 p.m. in the Jones Room, Tufts Library, 46 Broad St., Weymouth … Dina Nayeri (“A Teaspoon Of Earth And Sea”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Teju Cole (“Open City”) reads at 7 p.m. at Devlin Hall, Room 101, Boston College … Karen Russell (“Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Dick Lehr (“Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
FRIDAY: John Burt (“Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Ayana Mathis (“The Twelve Tribes of Hattie”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Teddy Wayne (“The Love Song of Jonny Valentine”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Katrina Kenison ("Magical Journey") reads at 7 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St. Winchester
SATURDAY: Joshua Pahigian ("Strangers on the Beach") reads at 1 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Susan Fleet ("Diva") reads at 2:30 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Tim Dorsey (“The Riptide Ultra-Glide”) reads at 3 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, Copley
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Greater Boston author readings Feb. 10-16
SUNDAY: Chuck Hogan (“The Town”) reads at 1 p.m. at The Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … William Martin (“The Lincoln Letter”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Fiona Paul (“Venom”), Lili Peloquin (“The Innocents”), Beth Revis (“Shades of Earth”), Morgan Rhodes (“Falling Kingdoms”), Elizabeth Richards (“Black City”), and Jess Spotswood (“Born Wicked”) read at 2 p.m. at Wellesley Theater Project, 98R Central St., Wellesley … George Harrar (“Reunion At Red Paint Bay”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Book Shop, 65 Main St., Concord … Cullen Murphy (“God’s Jury”) reads at 4 p.m. at Paul Pratt Memorial
Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset (rsvp to 781-383-1348)
MONDAY: Joe Gallo (“Boston Bronze & Stone Speak to Us”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library, 690 Adams St., Dorchester
… Michael Palmer ("Political Suicide") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Anna Summers (“There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Stephen Puleo (“The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Canon Public Library, 786 Washington St., Canton … Nicole Griffin (“Whole Stupid Way We Are”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Matt Kepnes (“How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
TUESDAY:
Tuesday, February 12, 2013, Junot Díaz ("This Is How You Lose Her") reads at 4:30 p.m. at Wellesley College’s Newhouse Center, 106 Central St., Wellesley … Jeri Quinzio (“Pudding: A Global History”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Schlesinger Library, 3 James St., Cambridge ($5 ticket) … David Roberts (“Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Lawrence Friedman (“The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Tehila Lieberman (“Venus in the Afternoon”) and
George Harrar (“Reunion at Red Paint Bay”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Christopher Castellani (“All This Talk of Love”) and Randy Susan Meyers (“The Comfort of Lies”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Stuart Nadler (“Wise Men”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Kate Clifford Larson ("The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln") reads at 7 p.m. at the Winchester Public Library, 80 Washington St., Winchester … Linda L. Barnes (“Chinese Medicine and Healing”) reads at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 660 Beacon St., Boston
WEDNESDAY: James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 10 a.m. at Wentworth Institute, Watson Hall, 500 Huntington Ave., Boston … Randy Susan Meyers (“The Comfort of Lies”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Peniel Joseph (“Dark Days, Bright Nights”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Jennifer Haigh (“News From Heaven: The Bakerton Stories”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Square Books … Ron Currie, Jr. (“Flimsy Plastic Miracles”) and Nicholas Montemarano (“The Book of Why”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Lawrence Millman (“Hiking to Siberia: Curious Tales of Travel and Travelers”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
THURSDAY: Mary E. Blevins Cox (“My Journey to Justice”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Grove Hall Branch of the Boston Public Library, 41 Geneva Ave., Dorchester … Members of the Somerville Arts Council (“Nibble: Exploring Food Art and Culture in Somerville”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Garry Wills (“Why Priests? A Failed Tradition”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Katherine Keenum (“Where The Light Falls”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
FRIDAY: Allan A. Ryan and Joshua Rubenstein (“Yamashita's Ghost: War Crimes, MacArthur's Justice, and Command Accountability”) read at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Lars Iyer (“Exodus”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Carl Rollyson (“American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store
SATURDAY: Jane Kohuth ("Duck Sock Hop") reads at 12:00 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … John Fiske ("A Pilots' Guide to the Airports of Historic Massachusetts") reads at 2 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury… Gary Braver ("Tunnel Vision") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford
Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before event date. Events are subject to change.
Greater Boston author readings Feb. 3-9
SUNDAY: Roland Merullo (“Lunch With Buddha”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Leslie Maitland (“Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Love Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord.
MONDAY: Leslie Maitland (“Crossing the Borders of Time”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Myra Love (“Other People’s Dreams”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Connolly Branch of the Boston Public Library, 433 Centre St., Jamaica Plain … Scott Haas (“Back of the House: The Secret Life of a Restaurant”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.
TUESDAY: Derek Sanderson (“Crossing the Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library, Copley … April Bernard ("Miss Fuller") reads at 6:30 PM at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Damien Echols (“Life After Death”) reads at 7 p.m. at Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University, 415 South St., Waltham … Daniel Pink (“To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/daniel_h._pink/) … Roseanne Montillo (“The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Christopher Castellani (“All This Talk of Love”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Jennifer Haigh (“News from Heaven”) reads at 7 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Anthony D'Aries (“The Language of Men”) and Tracy Kidder (“Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … John Galluzzo ("Half An Hour A Day Across Massachusetts") reads at 7 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury … Christoph Irmscher (“Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science”) reads at 7 p.m. at First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church St., Harvard Square
WEDNESDAY: Ann Leary (“The Good House”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Nick Flynn (“The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands”), Dobby Gibson (“It Becomes You”), and Mary Szybist (“Incarnadine”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Andre Dubus III (“Townie”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Wiggin Auditorium, Peabody City Hall, 24 Lowell St., Peabody … Charles D. Freilich (“Zion's Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy ”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop
THURSDAY: Meredith Goldstein (“The Singles”) reads at 7 p.m. at Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Roseanne Montillo (“The Lady and Her Monsters”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Susan Cain (“Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Veronica Rossi (“Through the Ever Night”), Cynthia Hand (“Boundless”), Brodi Ashton (“Everbound”), and Tahereh Mafi (“Unravel Me”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Ted Kerasote (“Pukka’s Promise”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Peter Hook (“Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Stuart Horwitz (“Blueprint Your Bestseller”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley ($17 ticket includes book) … Christopher Castellani (“All This Talk of Love”) and George Harrar (“Reunion at Red Paint Bay”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Julie Otsuka (“The Buddha in the Attic”) reads at 8 p.m. at the Bill Border Theater, Emerson College, 216 Tremont St.
FRIDAY: Amy Richards, Judith Resnick, and Anita Hill (“I Still Believe Anita Hill”) read at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Peter Hook (“Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Maria Konnikova (“Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Kemi Alabi, Jennifer Barber (“Given Away”), and Dan Memmolo (“Fist City”) read at 7:30 p.m. at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St., Jamaica Plain (suggested $5 donation)
SATURDAY: Jackie Davis (“The Candy Smash”) reads at 11 a.m. at Westwinds Bookshop, 35 Depot St., Duxbury… Larry Tye (“Superman: The High-flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero”) reads at 1 p.m. at Temple Isaiah, 55 Lincoln St., Lexington … Calvin Alexander Ramsey (“Ruth and the Green Book”) reads at 2 p.m. at Boston Public Library, Copley (RSVP required at ramsey.eventbrite.com) … Dwight (“The Mango Drive Days”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Grove Hall Branch of the BPL, 41 Geneva Ave., Dorchester … Mike Lupica (“Game Changers 2: Play Makers”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley
Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before event date. Events are subject to change.
Greater Boston author readings Jan. 27-Feb. 2
SUNDAY: Terry Francona (“Francona: The Red Sox Years”) signs books at 12:30 p.m. at Costco, 71 Second Ave., Waltham … Daniel M. Kimmel ("Shh! It's a Secret: A Novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender's Guide") reads at 1 p.m. at the Book Shop, 694 Broadway, Somerville … Larry Cultrera ("Classic Diners of Massachusetts"), Barbara Kerr ("Medford in the Victorian Era"), Dee Morris ("Medford: A Brief History"), Anthony Sammarco ("Medford"), and Patty Saunders ("Medford Then & Now") read at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Leana Wen and Joshua Kosowsky (“When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests”) read at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord
MONDAY: Terry Francona (“Francona: The Red Sox Years”) reads at 7 p.m. at Willow Books, 279 Great Acton Rd., Acton … Melanie Benjamin (“The Aviator’s Wife”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
TUESDAY: Michelle Marchetti Coughlin ("One Colonial Woman's World") reads at noon at the Boston Athenaeum … John Kenney (“Truth in Advertising”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon at Boston Public Library, Copley … Tom Wooten (“We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Ward Wilson (“Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Jodi Meadows (“Asunder”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … George Colt (“Brothers”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Lynne Potts ("A Block in Time: A History of Boston's South End From a Window on Holyoke Street") reads 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St.
WEDNESDAY: Dave Becker (“Stewed: A Collection of Soups, Braises, and Stews From Sweet Basil”) reads and cooks at 6 p.m. at Central Bottle Wine & Provisions, 196 Mass. Ave., Cambridge ($25 ticket includes food and beverage) … Jennifer Haigh (“News From Heaven”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Rose Styron (“Selected Letters of William Styron”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Chris Crowley and Jen Sacheck (“Thinner This Year”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Katrina Kenison and Margaret Roach ("Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment" and "The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening and Life") read at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Michael J. Tougias (“A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and Incredible Rescue”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Peabody Library, Danvers
THURSDAY: Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd (“Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”) read at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon at Boston Public Library, Copley … Lawrence Wright (“Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/lawrence_wright/) … Juliann Garey (“Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Jennifer Haigh (“News From Heaven”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Elaine Pagels (“Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelations”) reads at 7 p.m. at Devlin Hall Room 101, Boston College … Oliver Burkeman (“The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Jonathan Katz (“The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Eve LaPlante (“Marmee and Louisa”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
FRIDAY: David Roberts (“Alone on the Ice”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Timothy Gager (“Treating a Sick Animal”), Ilie Ruby (“The Salt God’s Daughter”), Alexandra Chasin (“Brief”) and Sarah Sweeney read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge
SATURDAY: Dave Becker (“Stewed: A Collection of Soups, Braises, and Stews From Sweet Basil”) signs books at 1 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley
… Richard Auffrey ("Demons, Gods & Sake") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Tom Farmer and Martin Foley ("A Murder in Wellesley") read at 2 p.m. at Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler St., Tewksbury
Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before event date. Events are subject to change.
Greater Boston author readings Jan. 20-26
SUNDAY: Senator Scott Brown ("Against All Odds") and Howie Carr ("Hard Knocks") read at 1 p.m. at Willow Books & Cafe, 279 Great Rd., Acton … Len Krisak ("If Anything") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Stephanie Schorow (“Drinking Boston: A History of the City and Its Spirits”) reads at the Regal Beagle, 308 Harvard St., Brookline (tickets, required, at brooklinebooksmith.com/tickets)
MONDAY: Anthony D'Aries (“The Language of Men”), Danielle Jones-Pruett, Sarah Sweeney, and Michael Thurston read at 7 p.m. at Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge.
TUESDAY: James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 1 P.M. at the Dolphin Restaurant, 12 Washington St., Natick … Gayle Forman (“Just One Day”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Tom Fels (“Buying the Farm”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Brad Meltzer (“The Fifth Assassin”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Karen E. Bender (“A Town of Empty Rooms”) and Ben Schrank (“Love Is a Canoe”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet (“Perfect Health Diet: Regain Health and Lose Weight by Eating the Way You Were Meant to Eat”)
WEDNESDAY: Thaisa Frank (“Enchantment”) and Julian Tepper (“Balls”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … B. A. Shapiro ("The Art Forger: A Novel") reads 7 p.m at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands
THURSDAY: Michael Dahlie (“The Best of Youth”) and J. Robert Lennon (“Familiar”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett (“The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children”) read at 7 p.m. at Lexington High School, 251 Waltham St., Lexington ($10 ticket) … Leana Wen and Joshua Kosowsky (“When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Ted Ross (“Am I a Jew?”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Lauren Slater (“The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … George Kalogeris (“Dialogos”) and Stamatia Dova read at 7 p.m. at the Poetry Center at Suffolk University, 73 Tremont St.
FRIDAY: Terry Francona (“Francona: The Red Sox Years”) signs books at 12:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 800 Boylston St., Boston … John Burt (“Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Vicky Hoefle ("Duct Tape Parenting") reads at 7 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Charles Wheelan (“Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread From the Data”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Alexandra Horowitz (“On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
SATURDAY: Terry Francona (“Francona: The Red Sox Years”) signs books at 12:30 p.m. at BJ’s Wholesale Club, 901 Technology Center Dr., Stoughton … Dave Becker ("Stewed") reads 1 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Ian Svenonius (“Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before event date. Events are subject to change.
Greater Boston author readings Jan. 13-19
SUNDAY: Juliette Fay (“The Shortest Way Home”) reads at 2 p.m. at Willow Books & Cafe, 279 Great Rd., Acton … David Fedo ("Carrots and Other Poems") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Adam Mansbach (“Rage Is Back”) reads at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Eve LaPlante (“Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Mother”) reads at 3 p.m. at Hingham Public Library … Katherine Fast, Ruth McCarty, Leslie Wheeler, and B.B. Oak (“Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon”) read at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord
MONDAY: Al Gowan (“Shared Vision: The Second American Bauhaus”), Tom Marshall (“The First Black Tycoon”), and Russ Bubas (“Clowns and Capers”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
TUESDAY: Nana Coslov and Tara Keppler ("Food For Thoughtful Parenting") read at noon at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Leah Hager Cohen ("The Grief of Others") reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Anne Bernays (“Man on the Third Floor”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Dr. Leana Wen and Dr. Joshua Kosowsky (“When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Jody Daynard (“The Midwife’s Revolt”) reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Waltham Public Library, 735 Main St., Waltham
WEDNESDAY: Christopher Kennedy Lawford (“Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction; Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn”) reads at 6 p.m. at
the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/christopher_kennedy_lawford/) … Jared Diamond (“The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?”) reads at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge … John Barylick ("Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert") reads at 7 p.m. at New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands … Benjamin Nugent (“Good Kids”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith
THURSDAY: Matthew Guerrieri (“The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination”) reads at 6 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley … Eric Asimov (“How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto”) reads at 6 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Magnus Flyte (“City of Dark Magic”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Tom Fitzgerald ("Poor Richard's Lament, A Most Timely Tale") reads at 7 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Larry Tye (“Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero") reads at 7:30 p.m. at Belmont Public Library … Dan Zevin (“Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton St., Newton
SATURDAY: Senator Scott Brown (“Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks and Second Chances”) and Howie Carr (“Hard Knocks”) read at 1p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Jan David Blais ("Twentieth Century Limited") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford.
Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before event date. Events are subject to change.
Greater Boston author appearances Jan. 6-12
SUNDAY: Tace Baker ("Speaking of Murder") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford… Edith Pearlman (“Binocular Vision”), Madeline Miller (“The Song of Achilles”), and Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) read at 4 p.m. at the Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset (call 781-383-1348 to reserve your free ticket) … Hester Kaplan (“The Tell”) and Kevin Prufer (“In a Beautiful Country”) read at 6:30 p.m. at Lesley’s Doble Campus in Marran Theater, 36 Mellen St., Cambridge
MONDAY: Susan Naimark (“The Education of a White Parent”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Connolly Branch of the Boston Public Library, 433 Centre St., Jamaica Plain … Erin Belieu (“Black Box”) and Laurie Foos (“Before Elvis There Was Nothing”) read at 6:30 p.m. at Lesley’s Doble Campus in Marran Theater, 36 Mellen St., Cambridge
TUESDAY: Derek Sanderson (“Crossing the Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original”) reads at 6 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall at the Boston Public Library, Copley … Neil Shubin (“The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Michael and Daniel Palmer (“Political Suicide”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Damien Echols (“Life After Death”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books
WEDNESDAY: Nick Flynn (“The Reenactments”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/nick_flynn/) … Jackie Davies (“The Lemonade War”) and A.J. Verdelle, (“The Good Negress”) read at 6:30 p.m. at Lesley’s Doble Campus in Marran Theater, 36 Mellen St., Cambridge… Robert Knott with Joan Parker (Robert Parker’s “Ironhorse”) read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Michael Connelly (“The Black Box”) reads at 7 p.m. at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, 375 Lexington St., Waltham
THURSDAY: Richard Vacca (“The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937-1962”) reads at 2 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall at Boston Public Library, Copley … Laurie Davis (“Love @ First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online Dating”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon at Boston Public Library, Copley … Wenonah Hauter (“Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Rodney Wittwer ("Gone and Gone") and Fred Marchant ("The Looking House") read at 7 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Anita Silvey (“Children’s Book-a-Day Almanac”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Jerry Spinelli (“Hokey Pokey”), Clare Vanderpool (“Navigating Early”) read at 7 p.m. at Needham Free Public Library, 1130 Highland Ave., Needham
FRIDAY: Frank Lentricchia (“The Accidental Pallbearer”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Feng Sun Chen (“Butcher’s Tree”), A. Minetta Gould (“Arousing Notoriety”), and Johannes Göransson (“With Deer”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Judy Katz-Levine (“When the Arms of Our Dreams Embrace”) Zeke Russell, and Dorian Kotsiopoulos read at 7:30 p.m. at Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St. Jamaica Plain ($5 suggested donation)
SATURDAY: Andre Dubus III (“Townie”) reads at 11 a.m. at the Langley-Adams Library, 185 Main St., Groveland … Michael McCarthy ("From Cork To The New World") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford
Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before event date. Events are subject to change.
Greater Boston author appearances Dec. 23-29
SATURDAY: Guy Cote, ("Long Live The King") reads at 2 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford
Announcements must arrive at boston.globe.bookings@gmail.com at least two weeks before event date. Events are subject to change.




