Boston area author visits, week of 3/11
Compiled by Judith Maas
SUNDAY: Poets Meg Kearney, Kathleen Aguero, Jan Schreiber, and Richard Wollman read at 2 p.m., at Forsyth Chapel, Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Ave., Jamaica Plain.
MONDAY: John Banville reads from ‘‘Christine Falls,’’ at 6 p.m., at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge; tickets ($3) available at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., or by calling 617-661-1515. ..... Kevin Shay reads at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline. ..... Editors and contributors from small presses speak at 6 p.m., at Great Scott, 1222 Comm. Ave., Allston ($5). ..... Jacqueline Woodson reads at 10:30 a.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge.
TUESDAY: Nigel Hamilton speaks at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ..... Vijay Prashad discusses ‘‘The Darker Nations,’’ at 7 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop, Cambridge. ..... Ishmael Beah reads from ‘‘A Long Way Gone,’’ at 6 p.m., at the Brattle Theatre; tickets ($3) available at the Harvard Book Store, or by calling 617-661-1515. ..... Michael Lowenthal discusses ‘‘Charity Girl,’’ at 7 p.m., at the Framingham Public Library, 49 Lexington St., Framingham. ..... David McGillivray talks at 7 p.m., at the Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset.
WEDNESDAY: David Valdes Greenwood reads at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ..... Julie Campoli and Alex MacLean speak at 4 p.m., at the Lincoln Institute, 113 Brattle St., Cambridge; register at www.lincolninst.edu. ..... Nina Shope reads at 7 p.m., at the Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St., Wellesley. ..... A celebration of W..H. Auden takes place at 6:30 p.m., at First Parish Church Meetinghouse, 3 Church St., Cambridge; tickets ($3) available at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, or call 617-661-1515.
THURSDAY: Bill Novak speaks at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ..... Anthony Weller reads from ‘‘First Into Nagasaki,’’ at 7:30 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville. ..... Kurt Anderson reads at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith.
FRIDAY: Kurt Andersen reads from ‘‘Heyday,’’ at 7 p.m., at Jabberwocky Bookshop, 50 Water St., Newburyport. ..... Mark Kramer, Jim Collins, Jay Allison, and Emily Hiestand discuss ‘‘Telling True Stories,’’ at 6:30 p.m., at the Harvard Book Store.
SATURDAY: Poets Marguerite Guzman Bouvard and Becky Thompson read at 3:45, at the Brockton Library, 304 Main St., Brockton.
Events are subject to change.
