Boston area author visits, week of May 4

By Judith Maas

SUNDAY: Jack O’Connell (“The Resurrectionist”) and Perrin Ireland (“Chatter”) read at 2 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville … Hillary Jordan reads from “Mudbound,” at 4 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge … Joe Cronin discusses “Reforming Boston Schools,” at 10 a.m., at Trinity Church, Copley Square … Santa Montefiore discusses “Sea of Lost Love,” at 2 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith, 82 Central St., Wellesley; RSVP requested (781) 431-1160 … Susie Davidson discusses “Jewish Life in Postwar Germany” and other works at noon at the Fayerweather School, 765 Concord Ave., Fresh Pond area, Cambridge.

MONDAY: Mameve Medwed reads from “Of Men and Their Mothers,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner, Brookline … Michael Tonello reads from “Bringing Home the Birkin,” at 6 p.m., at Borders, Back Bay, 511 Boylston St. … Tony Horwitz discusses “A Voyage Long and Strange,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge … Poets Mary Buchinger, Freddie Frankel, and Lo Galluccio read at 7 p.m., at the Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge.

TUESDAY: George Johnson discusses “The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store … Margot Livesey reads from “The House on Fortune Street,” at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books … Ellis Avery discusses “The Teahouse Fire,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Michael Eric Dyson discusses “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King’s Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America,” at 7 p.m., at the Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge … Bryan Mealer discusses “All Things Must Fight to Live,” at 7 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, Boston University, Kenmore Square … Tony Massarotti discusses “Dynasty,” at 1 p.m., at Borders, Downtown Crossing.

WEDNESDAY: Reeve Lindbergh discusses “Forward from Here,” at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books … Howard Fineman discusses “The Thirteen American Arguments,” at 6 p.m., at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge; for tickets ($5), call 617-661-1515 … Steve Elman and Alan Tolz discuss “Burning Up the Air,” at 1 p.m., at Borders, Downtown Crossing,

THURSDAY: Michael Lowenthal (“Charity Girl”) and N.S. Koenings (“Theft”) read at 7 p.m., at Newtonville Books … Alice Hoffman reads from “The Third Angel,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Reeve Lindbergh reads from “Forward from Here,” at 6 p.m., at Borders, Back Bay … Fareed Zakaria discusses “The Post-American World,” at 7 p.m., at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge; for tickets ($5), call 617-661-1515 … Stephanie Schorow discusses “The Crime of the Century,” at 6:30 p.m., at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 12 Sedgwick St., Jamaica Plain … Zhu Xiao Di discusses “Tales of Judge Dee,” at 6:30 p.m., at the West End Branch Library, 151 Cambridge St. … Joan Anderson discusses “The Second Journey,” at 6 p.m., at Borders, Downtown Crossing.

FRIDAY: Robert H. Bates discusses “When Things Fall Apart,” at 3 p.m., and Michael T. Klare discusses “Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store … Katie Smith Milway discusses “One Hen,” at 4 p.m., at the Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St., Wellesley … Porter Square Books hosts a launch party at 6:30 p.m., for Laura and Leo Espinosa’s children’s book, “Otis and Rae and the Grumbling Splunk” … Margot Livesey reads from “The House on Fortune Street,” at 7 p.m., at Jabberwocky Bookshop, 50 Water St., Newburyport.

SATURDAY: Chris Bohjalian reads from “Skeletons at the Feast,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Rick Jordan, author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, discusses “The Battle of the Labyrinth,” at 3 p.m., at Wellesley Middle School, 50 Kingsbury St., Wellesley; doors open at 2:30 p.m. … Boston-area MFA students read at 4 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, Boston University … Children’s author Matt Tavares signs “Lady Liberty,” at 2 p.m., at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester.


Events are subject to change.