Boston area author visits, week of Jan. 20 - 26

By Judith Maas

SUNDAY: Sue Miller reads from ‘‘The Senator’s Wife,’’ at 5 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge.

MONDAY: Frances Moore Lappe discusses ‘‘Getting a Grip,’’ at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner, Brookline.

TUESDAY: Eliot Pattison reads from ‘‘Bone Rattler,’’ at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ... Jonathan Eig (‘‘Luckiest Man,’’ ‘‘Opening Day’’) speaks at 7 p.m., at Flint Memorial Library, 147 Park St., N. Reading. ... Bob Blumenthal discusses ‘‘Jazz,’’ at 7 p.m., at the Regattabar, Charles Hotel, One Bennett St., Cambridge. ... Charles Enderlin discusses ‘‘The Lost Years,’’ at 7 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop, Cambridge. ... Douglas Preston reads from ‘‘Blasphemy,’’ at 7 p.m., at Jabberwocky Bookshop, 50 Water St., Newburyport.

WEDNESDAY: Poets Kathleen Spivack and Ifeanyi Menkiti read at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ... Jennifer Finney Boylan reads from ‘‘I’m Looking Through You,’’ at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. ... Michael Levy discusses ‘‘Take Control of Your Drinking — and You May Not Need to Quit,’’ at 7 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop.

THURSDAY: Don Metz reads from ‘‘Confessions of a Country Architect,’’ at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ... Karl Iagnemma reads from ‘‘The Expeditions,’’ at 7 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville. ... Susie Bright reads from ‘‘Best American Erotica 2008,’’at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith. ... Neil Shubin discusses ‘‘Your Inner Fish,’’ at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store.

FRIDAY: Poet Gerald Stern reads at 7 p.m., at the Concord Free Library, 129 Main St., Concord. ... Richard Marinick reads from ‘‘In for a Pound,’’ at 7 p.m., at Jabberwocky Bookshop. ... Geraldine Brooks discusses ‘‘People of the Book,’’ at 7:30 p.m., at the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL St., Woods Hole.

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