Greater Boston author readings Sept. 2-9

TUESDAY: Richard Kadrey (“Devil Said Bang”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon of the Boston Public Library, Copley … Henry Horenstein (“Honky Tonk”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Theda Skocpol (“Obama and America’s Political Future”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

WEDNESDAY: Alan Wolfe (“Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … William Martin ("The Lincoln Letter") reads at 7 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Hank Phillippi Ryan (“The Other Woman”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

THURDAY: Arthur Singer and Ronald Goodman (“Boston’s Downtown Movie Palaces”) read at 2 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall at the Boston Public Library, Copley …
Saul Williams (“Chorus”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge (free tickets at hbooks@bncollege.com) … Paul Tough (“How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Gutman Library, Harvard School of Education, Cambridge … Leo J. Maloney (“Termination Orders”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library … Ruth Nemzoff (“Don't Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws into Family”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … William Martin (“The Lincoln Letter”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Taylor Polites (“Rebel Wife”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St. … Adam Braver (“Misfit”) and Margot Livesey (“The Flight of Gemma Hardy”) read at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Hank Phillippi Ryan (“The Other Woman”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord

FRIDAY: Martin Amis (“Lionel Asbo: State of England”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/martin_amis/) … Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (“The Rapture of the Nerds”) read at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … David Kaiser (“How the Hippies Saved Physics”) reads at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Chris Beldon (“Carry-On”), Michael Graves (“Dirty One”), and Steve Macone read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Art Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge … Yoram Hazony (“The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY: L.S. Asekoff (“Freedom Hill”) reads at 4 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Tom Ryan (“Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship”) reads at 4 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley

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