Local Readings and Events
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. More information can be found here.
Rachel Slade
Rachel Slade discusses Making it in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way) at Boston Athenæum. More information can be found here.
Nigerian Authors Book Club for Kids
Nigerian Authors Book Club for Kids, with Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, at Boston Public Library. Find more information here.
Elijah Wald
Elijah Wald discusses Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories at Harvard Book Store. More information can be found here.
An Evening of Poetry: Jess Yuan, Joshua Nguyen, Jess Rizkallah, and Amanda Gunn
An Evening of Poetry: Jess Yuan, Joshua Nguyen, Jess Rizkallah, and Amanda Gunn at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Silent Book Club & Write Night
Silent Book Club & Write Night at Trident Booksellers & Café. More information can be found here.
Poetry Reading with Jason Tandon and January Gill O'Neil
Poetry Reading with Jason Tandon and January Gill O'Neil at Wellesley Books. More information can be found here.
Marisa Kanter
Marisa Kanter discusses Finally Fitz, in conversation with Jenny Howe, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. More information can be found here.
Blacksmith House Poetry Series
Blacksmith House Poetry Series with Jennifer Tseng and Danny Lawless, at CCAE. More information can be found here.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Alexis Pauline Gumbs discusses "Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and a Homemade Field of Love" at Radcliffe Institute. Find more information here.
Charles Trueheart
Charles Trueheart discusses Diplomats at War at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
Erik Davis
Erik Davis discusses Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium at MIT Press Bookstore. Find more information here.
Trent Masiki
Trent Masiki discusses The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
April Middle Grade Book Club
April Middle Grade Book Club discusses The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.
Melissa Giberson and Amy Ferris
Melissa Giberson discusses Late Bloomer: Finding My Authentic Self at Midlife and Amy Ferris discusses Mighty Gorgeous: A Little Book about Messy Love, in conversation with Jessica Keener, at East End Books Boston. More information can be found here.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong discusses Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Nicole Lee Schroeder, and Ellen Samuels at Harvard Book Store (virtual). Find more information here.
Boston.com Book Club
Boston.com Book Club discusses Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra, in conversation with Lauren Tiedemann, at Boston.com. Find more information here.
Have You Read This? Book Moot
Have You Read This? Book Moot discusses Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut at Pandemonium Books and Games. More information can be found here.
Emily Franklin
Emily Franklin discusses The Lioness of Boston at Newtonville Books. More information can be found here.
Catherine Con Morse
Catherine Con Morse discusses The Notes, in conversation with Mia Tong, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. More information can be found here.
Renée Bergland
Renée Bergland discusses Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science, in conversation with Anna Henchman, at Harvard Book Store. More information can be found here.
Mark Cecil
Mark Cecil discusses Bunyan and Henry or, The Beautiful Destiny, in conversation with Steve Almond, at Porter Square Books: Boston. More information can be found here.
Readings from the Room
Readings from the Room with Sonia Aggarwal and Heather Wright, at Writers' Room of Boston. Find more information here.
Tara Conklin
Tara Conklin discusses Community Board, in conversation with Joanna Rakoff, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Sarah Kafatou and Mark S. Burrows
Sarah Kafatou and Mark S. Burrows, in conversation with George Kalogeris, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Brad Balukjian
Brad Balukjian discusses The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania, in conversation with Jon Mael, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder discusses Rough Sleepers, in conversation with Dr. Jim O’Connell, at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Sabrina Sholts
Sabrina Sholts discusses The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs, in conversation with Dr. Larry Madoff, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Boston Poetry Slam
Boston Poetry Slam, with Durane West, at The Cantab Lounge. Find more information here.
Carola Lovering
Carola Lovering discusses Bye, Baby at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
Kathy Greeley
Kathy Greeley discusses Testing Education: A Teacher’s Memoir at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Natalie Dykstra
Natalie Dykstra discusses Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner at American Ancestors. Find more information here.
Robert M. Sapolsky
Robert M. Sapolsky discusses Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will, in conversation with Joshua D. Greene, at Harvard Book Store (online). Find more information here.
James Marcus
James Marcus discusses Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau discusses Closer Together, in conversation with Deborah Becker, at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
Abraham Chang
Abraham Chang discusses 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers, in conversation with Julie Wu, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy discuss Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Jilly Gagnon
Jilly Gagnon, in conversation with Katie Cotugno, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee: Writing and the Korean Wave at MFA. Find more information here.
Griffin Hansbury
Griffin Hansbury discusses Some Strange Music Draws Me In: A Novel, in conversation with , at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Debra Spark
Debra Spark discusses Discipline at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
How to Navigate Today’s Publishing Landscape
“How to Navigate Today’s Publishing Landscape” with Anjali Mitter Duva and Henriette Lazaridis, at WNBA-Boston. Find more information here.
Arlington Author Salon
Arlington Author Salon, with K. Iver, Miriam Levine, and Vijaya Sundaram, at Kickstand Café. Find more information here.
Ana Siqueira
Ana Siqueira discusses Our World, Our Stories at Boston Public Library: Connolly (online). Find more information here.
Open Mic Night
Open Mic Night, with Pete Bruce, at More Than Words. Find more information here.
Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud! Teen Spoken Word Festival
Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud! Teen Spoken Word Festival at MassPoetry. Find more information here.
Lauren Birmingham-Piscitelli
Lauren Birmingham-Piscitelli discusses It's a Dream Place at I AM Books. Find more information here.
Epic Bookclub
Epic Bookclub discusses The Odyssey by Homer at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Victor Lodato
Victor Lodato discusses Honey, in conversation with Mona Awad, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Amy Tan
Amy Tan discusses The Backyard Bird Chronicles, in conversation with David Allen Sibley, at First Parish Church. Find more information here.
Nell Irvin Painter
Nell Irvin Painter discusses I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays, in conversation with Farah Stockman, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Renee Kurilla
Renee Kurilla discusses Mermaids' Song to the Sea at Blue Bunny Books. Find more information here.
Ageless Possibilities in Writing & Publishing
“Ageless Possibilities in Writing & Publishing" with Darlene Corbett at Boston Public Library: Brighton. Find more information here.
Bookworm Quincy Pop-Up
Bookworm Quincy Pop-Up at Notch Brewing. Find more information here.
T. M. Blanchet
T. M. Blanchet discusses Herrick’s Key at Lala Books. Find more information here.
May Outspoken Saturdays
May Outspoken Saturdays, with Amanda Shea, at GBH. Find more information here.
Bob Shea
Bob Shea discusses Oh, Are You Awake? at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Side Quest Books & Games Pop-Up
Side Quest Books & Games Pop-Up at Winter Hill Brewing Company. Find more information here.
May Breakfast Club
May Breakfast Club discusses The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Bookworm Quincy Pop-Up
Bookworm Quincy Pop-Up at Trillium Canton. Find more information here.
Clare Walker Leslie
Clare Walker Leslie discusses How to Look at a Bird at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Craft Talk with Steve Almond
Craft Talk with Steve Almond at Thistle & Leek. Find more information here.
Dr. Elizabeth White and Dr. Joanna Sliwa
Dr. Elizabeth White and Dr. Joanna Sliwa discuss The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust at American Ancestors. Find more information here.
Spring 2024 Book Launch
Spring 2024 Book Launch, with Charles O. Hartman, Nidia Hernández, Yuliya Musakovska, Olena Jennings, and Mark Pawlak at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Find more information here.
Ajuan Mance
Ajuan Mance discusses What Do Brothas Do All Day? at Papercuts JP. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Malia C. Lazu
Malia C. Lazu discusses From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, in conversation with Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates, at GBH. Find more information here.
Somerville Poets Reading Their Own Poems and Poems They Love
“Somerville Poets Reading Their Own Poems and Poems They Love” at The Center for the Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Paul Grogan and Kathy Merchant
Paul Grogan and Kathy Merchant discuss Be Prepared to Be Lucky, in conversation with Vanessa Calderon-Rosado, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. More information can be found here.
Books and Brews Spring Bookfair
Books and Brews Spring Bookfair at Medford Brewing Company. Find more information here.
Poetry at the Manse
Poetry at the Manse: Martha Collins, Merryn Rutledge, Adam Scheffler at Old Manse. Find more information here.
Guna's Bookclub
Guna's Bookclub discusses Leading Men: A Novel by Christopher Castellani at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Marietta Apollonio
Marietta Apollonio discusses Wombat and the Family Tree at More Than Words: Boston. More information can be found here.
Breakfast Club with Margot Douaihy
Breakfast Club with Margot Douaihy at All She Wrote Books. More information can be found here.
Dana Mattioli
Dana Mattioli discusses The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power at The University Club of Boston. Find more information here.
CAC Annual Festival & Bookfair
CAC Annual Festival & Bookfair at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd discusses Timid: A Graphic Novel at Frugal Bookstore. More information can be found here.
Independent Bookstore Day
Independent Bookstore Day. More information can be found here.
Dana Mattioli
Dana Mattioli discusses The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power at Harvard Book Store. More information can be found here.
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Charisse Burden-Stelly discusses Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States at Lucy Parsons Center. Find more information here.
City Night Readings
City Night Readings at Little Crepe Café. Find more information here.
Mia Sheridan
Mia Sheridan discusses Falling for Gage at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Newburyport Literary Festival
Newburyport Literary Festival. Find more information here.
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up at Lamplighter Brewing Co. More information can be found here.
4th Fridays at Frugal
4th Fridays at Frugal, with Amanda Shea, at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Sophie Blackall
Sophie Blackall discusses Ahoy! at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
Breakwater Reading Series
Breakwater Reading Series at Rhythm n' Wraps. Find more information here.
Mystery Night with Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver
Mystery Night with Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver at Newtonville Books. More information can be found here.
Literature Junkies Book Club
Literature Junkies Book Club discusses The Wishing Game: A Novel by Meg Shafer at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.
Peter May
Peter May discusses Changing the Course: How Charlie Sifford and Stanley Mosk Integrated the PGA at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Lissa Soep
Lissa Soep discusses Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations that Never End, in conversation with Daphne Kalotay, at Harvard Book Store. More information can be found here.
Elle Simone Scott
Elle Simone Scott discusses Food Gifts: 150+ Irresistible Recipes for Crafting Personalized Presents at Brookline Booksmith. More information can be found here.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, in conversation with Robin Young, at WBUR CitySpace. Find more information here.
Celeste Ng and Ju Yon Kim
Celeste Ng and Ju Yon Kim at GBH. Find more information here.
Kate O' Donnell
Kate O' Donnell discusses Everyday Ayurveda for Women’s Health, in conversation with Aura Bermudez, at Trident Booksellers & Café. More information can be found here.
Gil Schafer
Gil Schafer discusses Home at Last: Enduring Design for the New American House at Boston Athenaeum. Find more information here.
Boston Youth Poet Laureate Alondra Bobadilla
Boston Youth Poet Laureate Alondra Bobadilla at Boston Public Library: Adams Street. Find more information here.