Boston area author visits, week of May 11-17

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. ... 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,’’ 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 NS. Köenings (‘‘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.