Boston area author readings, 8/5-9

By Judith Maas
SUNDAY: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell reads at 4 p.m., at the Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge.
MONDAY: Eric Jay Dolin discusses ‘‘Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America,’’ at 6 p.m., at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square. ..... Nancy Schulman and Ellen Birnbaum discuss ‘‘Practical Wisdom for Parents,’’ at 7 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith, 82 Central St., Wellesley.
THURSDAY: Eric Jay Dolin discusses ‘‘Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America,’’ at 7:30 p.m., at the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem. ..... Steve Almond, Laura Dave, and Jenni Ferrari-Adler read from ‘‘Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant,’’ at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith.
[no FRI or SAT listings]

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