Boston area author visits, week of 4/1-7
By Judith Maas
SUNDAY: Edward P. Jones (‘‘All Aunt Hagar’s Children’’) speaks at 3 p.m., at the PEN Hemingway Awards, Kennedy Library, Columbia Point.
MONDAY: Poets Peter Filkins, Valerie Lawson, and Sue Owen read at 7 p.m., at the Harvard-Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge. ..... Barry Moser discusses ‘‘A Feeling for the Vulgar,’’ at 5 p.m., at Boston University’s College of Communications, Room 101, 640 Comm. Ave.
TUESDAY: Ann Hood reads from ‘‘The Knitting Circle,’’ at 6:30 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge.
WEDNESDAY: Chet Raymo reads from ‘‘Valentine,’’ at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ..... Ali A. Allawi discusses ‘‘The Occupation of Iraq,’’ at 7:30 p.m., at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge. ..... Rishi Reddi discusses ‘‘Karma and Other Stories,’’ at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline. ..... Jamaica Kincaid reads at 6:30 p.m., in Room 6-120 (enter at 77 Mass. Ave.), MIT, Cambridge. ..... Marilyn Johnson discusses ‘‘The Dead Beat,’’ at 7 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, Boston University, Kenmore Square. ..... Poet Michael S. Harper reads at 4 p.m., in Tisch Library, Tufts University, Medford . ..... Conor Murphy reads from his short stories and essays at noon in Killian Hall, Room 14W-111, 160 Memorial Dr., MIT, Cambridge.
THURSDAY: Poets W.S. Di Piero, John Hennessy, and Don Share read at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith. ..... Susan Piver discusses ‘‘How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life,’’ at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books.
FRIDAY: Brendan Halpin reads from ‘‘Dear Catastrophe Waitress,’’ at 7 p.m., at Jabberwocky Bookshop, 50 Water St., Newburyport. ..... David Bulley, Jeannette Angell, and poet Regie Gibson read at 8 p.m., at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge.
SATURDAY: Sebastian Junger discusses ‘‘A Death in Belmont,’’ at 2 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith. ..... Poets Michael Brown, Sean Theall, and others read at 3:30 p.m., as part of the Brockton Library Poetry Series, 304 Main St., Brockton.
Events are subject to change.
