Boston area author visits, May 17-23

No SUNDAY listings.

MONDAY: Lee Woodruff discusses “Perfectly Imperfect,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner, Brookline … Phillip Lopate discusses “Notes on Sontag,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge … Peter Abrahams discusses “Reality Check,” at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge … Elizabeth Bettina reads from “It Happened in Italy,” at 1 p.m., at Borders, 10-24 School St. … Translator Peter Balakian discusses Grigoris Balakian’s “Armenian Golgotha,” at 7 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop, Cambridge.

TUESDAY: Iain Pears reads from “Stone’s Fall,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store … Lise Funderburg reads from “Pig Candy,” at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books … Elizabeth Berg (“Home Safe”) and Augusten Burroughs (“A Wolf at the Table”) speak at 7 p.m., at Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St., Wellesley; admission on first come, first served basis … Daniel Asa Rose discusses “Larry’s Kidney,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith.

WEDNESDAY: Malina Salva discusses “The Secret Lives of Boys,” at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books … Greer Gilman reads from “Cloud & Ashes,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store … Daniel Mendelsohn (C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems”) speaks at 6 p.m., at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square … Poets C.L. Bledsoe and Nancy Mitchell read at 7 p.m., at Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow St., Harvard Square, Cambridge … Steve Kluger reads from “My Most Excellent Year,” at 7 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Lynne Griffin discusses “Life Without Summer,” at 7 p.m., at Scituate Town Library, 85 Branch St., Scituate … Kathleen Willis Morton discusses “Blue Poppy and the Mustard Seed,” at 7 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop … Jeffrey Borenstein reads from “Angels and Demons,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith.

THURSDAY: Pat Lowery Collins (“Hidden Voices”) and Kim Whitney (“Other Half of Life”) read at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books … Joyce Lee Malcolm discusses “Peter’s War,” at 7:30 p.m., at Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Mass. Ave., Lexington …Vincent Bzdek discusses “The Kennedy Legacy,” at 1 p.m., at Borders, 10-24 School St. … Lee Child reads from “Gone Tomorrow,” at 6 p.m., at Borders, 511 Boylston St. … Anne DeCourcy from Harper Collins and Ann Wachur from Penguin Group discuss summer reading at 6:30 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith.

No FRIDAY or SATURDAY listings.

-- JUDITH MAAS

Events are subject to change.