Local Readings and Events
Muse & the Marketplace
GrubStreet's Muse & the Marketplace at Park Plaza Hotel. Find more information here.
Kate Phelps
Kate Phelps discusses A Garden of Her Own at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Poetry Salon: Cass Garison and Mollie O'Leary
Poetry Salon: Cass Garison and Mollie O'Leary at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
Anastasia Rubis
Anastasia Rubis discusses Oriana at I AM Books. Find more information here.
Barbara Ridley
Barbara Ridley discusses Unswerving: A Novel, in conversation with Amy Hoffman, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Isaac Arnsdorf
Isaac Arnsdorf discusses Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy, in conversation with Steven Levitsky, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s at First Parish Church. Find more information here.
Chapter and Verse
Chapter and Verse, with Leslie Bannatyne, Gary Duehr, and Maureen McElroy, at Loring Greenough House. Find more information here.
Side Quest Books & Games Pop-Up
Side Quest Books & Games Pop-Up at Crystal Ballroom. Find more information here.
John O'Connor
John O'Connor discusses The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster at Westwood Public Library. Find more information here.
Meghana Narayan
Meghana Narayan discusses A Little Bit of Everything at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Molly Bang
Molly Bang discusses Tye May and the Magic Brush at Boston Public Library: Fields Corner. Find more information here.
Meghana Narayan
Meghana Narayan discusses A Little Bit of Everything at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Meghana Narayan
Meghana Narayan discusses A Little Bit of Everything at Boston Public Library: Faneuil. 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.
Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll discusses Quanta and Fields at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Find more information here.
PSB Book Club
PSB Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Juli Min
Juli Min discusses Shanghailanders: A Novel, in conversation with Aube Rey Lescure, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
May Book Club
May Book Club discusses Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Silent Book Club & Write Night
Silent Book Club & Write Night at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Renee Kurilla
Renee Kurilla discusses Mermaids' Song to the Sea at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín discusses Long Island: A Novel at The Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.
Larry Tye
Larry Tye discusses The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.
Bruce W. Brackett
Bruce W. Brackett discusses How to Breathe While Suffocating at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Main Book Moot
Main Book Moot discusses A Short Walk Through A Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.
Martha Collins and Nguyen Ba Chung
Martha Collins and Nguyen Ba Chung discuss Dreaming the Mountain at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Caroline Paul
Caroline Paul discusses Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking — How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Yukiko Tominaga
Yukiko Tominaga discusses See: Loss. See Also: Love., in conversation with Hanna Halperin, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Tom Seeman
Tom Seeman discusses Animals I Want To See, in conversation with William Martin, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Sulmaan Wasif Khan discusses The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Side Quest Books & Games Book Club
Side Quest Books & Games Book Club discusses The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo at Remnant Brewing. Find more information here.
Jeanne Blasberg
Jeanne Blasberg discusses Daughter of a Promise, in conversation with Katherine Sherbrooke, at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
The Moth StorySLAM: SNOOPING
The Moth StorySLAM: SNOOPING at GBH. Find more information here.
David Gamble, Matthew J. Kiefer, and Rosalyn Negrón
David Gamble, Matthew J. Kiefer, and Rosalyn Negrón discuss Idea City: How to Make Boston More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient at the State Library of Massachusetts. Find more information here.
Ellen Mayer
Ellen Mayer discusses Gift & Box at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Youth-Led Book Club
Youth-Led Book Club discusses Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward, in conversation with , at More Than Words. Find more information here.
Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman discusses Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion, in conversation with Neema Avashia, at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
Neel Mukherjee
Neel Mukherjee discusses Choice at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Miranda July
Miranda July discusses All Fours: A Novel, in conversation with Laura Zigman, at The Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.
Ramie Targoff
Ramie Targoff discusses Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
Bill's Book Group for Guys
Bill's Book Group for Guys discusses Horse by Geraldine Brooks at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Jessica Shattuck
Jessica Shattuck discusses Last House: A Novel, in conversation with Heidi Pitlor, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Kate Gale, DC Frost, and Ellen Meeropol
Kate Gale discusses Under a Neon Sun, DC Frost discusses A Punishing Breed, and Ellen Meeropol discusses The Lost Women of Azalea Court at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
John Kaag
John Kaag discusses American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation, in conversation with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Boston Poetry Slam
Boston Poetry Slam, with Summer Farah, at The Cantab Lounge. Find more information here.
Charlee Dyroff
Charlee Dyroff discusses Loneliness & Company, in conversation with Aube Rey Lescure, at East End Books Boston. Find more information here.
Raising a Reader's Dinner with an Author Gala 2024
Raising a Reader's Dinner with an Author Gala 2024 at Raffles Boston. Find more information here.
Wendy Chen
Wendy Chen discusses Their Divine Fires: A Novel at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Melanie Brooks
Melanie Brooks discusses A Hard Silence, in conversation with Andre Dubus III, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Third Thursdays Poetry
Third Thursdays Poetry at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Ann Hood and Caroline Leavitt
Ann Hood discusses The Stolen Child and Caroline Leavitt discusses Days of Wonder at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Tessa Fontaine
Tessa Fontaine discusses The Red Grove, in conversation with Margot Livesey, at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Jennifer Kabat
Jennifer Kabat discusses The Eighth Moon, in conversation with Francesca Wade and Aaron Hicklin, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Rozzie Reads Poetry
Rozzie Reads Poetry, with Kieren Collier and Vivienne Shalom, at Roslindale House. Find more information here.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas D. Kristof discusses Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life, in conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust, at First Parish Church. Find more information here.
To never have risked our lives: An AGNI Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing
“To never have risked our lives: An AGNI Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing” at Brookline Booksmith (online). Find more information here.
Writing to Heal Immersive Graduation Reading 2024
Writing to Heal Immersive Graduation Reading 2024 at GrubStreet. Find more information here.
Claire Messud
Claire Messud discusses This Strange Eventful History: A Novel, in conversation with Allegra Goodman, at The Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.
Terri Libenson
Terri Libenson discusses Always Anthony at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up at Bow Market. Find more information here.
Poetry Salon: Kelan Nee
Poetry Salon: Kelan Nee at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
Robin Bernstein
Robin Bernstein discusses Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, in conversation with Brandon M. Terry, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Temim Fruchter
Temim Fruchter discusses City of Laughter, in conversation with Aube Rey Lescure, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
The Second Annual Greater Roxbury Book Fair
The Second Annual Greater Roxbury Book Fair, with Ibram X. Kendi and Jacqueline Woodson, at Boston Public Library: Roxbury. Find more information here.
Renée Kurilla
Renée Kurilla discusses Mermaids’ Song to the Sea at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
All She Wrote Books x Juliet Book Club
All She Wrote Books x Juliet Book Club discusses Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun at Juliet Social Club. Find more information here.
Mia Wenjen and Andrew Hacket
Mia Wenjen discusses Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime and Andrew Hacket discusses
Ollie, the Acorn, and the Mighty Idea at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Boston ABG: Asian Book Group
Boston ABG: Asian Book Group discusses The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen in Cambridge. Find more information here.
Andrea Kriz
Andrea Kriz discusses Discussion: Learning To Hate Yourself As A Self-Defense Mechanism: and Other Stories, in conversation with Shariann Lewitt, at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Lucas Mann
Lucas Mann discusses Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, in conversation with Nina Maclaughlin, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Alice Rothchild
Alice Rothchild discusses Old Enough to Know at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
YA (For Adult Readers) Book Club
YA (For Adult Readers) Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Betty's Lunchtime Book Group
Betty's Lunchtime Book Group discusses I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Kasey LeBlanc
Kasey LeBlanc discusses Flyboy, in conversation with Jennie Wood, at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Shefali Luthra
Shefali Luthra discusses Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in a Post-Roe America, in conversation with Deborah Becker, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Zoë Schlanger
Zoë Schlanger discusses The Light Eaters, in conversation with Katherine J. Wu, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Erik Larson
Erik Larson discusses The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, in conversation with Emiko Tamagawa, at The Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.
Anna Francese Gass
Anna Francese Gass discusses Italian Snacking: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Every Hour of the Day at I AM Books. Find more information here.
Petra Molnar
Petra Molnar discusses The Walls Have Eyes at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Leah Hager Cohen
Leah Hager Cohen discusses To & Fro: A Novel at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Boston Poetry Slam
Boston Poetry Slam, with Legacy Thornton, at The Cantab Lounge. Find more information here.
Margot Anne Kelley
Margot Anne Kelley discusses A Gardener at the End of the World at Beacon Hill Books & Café. Find more information here.
David Grundy
David Grundy discusses Never By Itself Alone: Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area at The History Project. Find more information here.
Silent Reading Party
Silent Reading Party at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Poetry Reading: Linda Carney-Goodrich, Tom Daley, Toni Bee, Matthew Henry, and Maureen McElroy
Poetry Reading: Linda Carney-Goodrich, Tom Daley, Toni Bee, Matthew Henry, and Maureen McElroy, at Distraction Brewery. Find more information here.
Hannah Reynolds
Hannah Reynolds discusses Summer Nights and Meteorites, in conversation with Jenny L. Howe, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Stephen Provizier
Stephen Provizier discusses As Long as They Can Blow: Interracial Jazz Recordings and Oher Jive Before 1936, in conversation with Philip Swanson. Find more information here.
Translating Experimental Women Poets
Translating Experimental Women Poets, with C. Francis Fisher and Alex Braslavsky, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Allison Pugh
Allison Pugh discusses The Last Human Job, in conversation with Carolyn Hax, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Ajuan Mance
Ajuan Mance discusses What Do Brothas Do All Day? at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Side Quest Books & Games Pop-Up
Side Quest Books & Games Pop-Up at Idle Hands Brewery. Find more information here.
Poetry at the Manse: Sara Epstein, Denise Provost, and Gary Whited
Poetry at the Manse: Sara Epstein, Denise Provost, and Gary Whited at The Old Manse. Find more information here.
Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler discusses And Then? And Then? What Else?, in conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Silent Book Club & Write Night
Silent Book Club & Write Night at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Have You Read This? Books Moot
Have You Read This? Books Moot discusses Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.
Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton discusses The Last Murder at the End of the World, in conversation with Peter Swanson, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy discusses Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies, in conversation with Chelsea Conaboy, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna discusses Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, in conversation with Imani Perry, at The Wilbur. Find more information here.
Daniel Dain and Peter Vanderwarker
Daniel Dain and Peter Vanderwarker discuss A History of Boston at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.
Kit Schluter
Kit Schluter discusses Cartoons and Garrett Caples discusses Proses at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Tom Seeman
Tom Seeman discusses Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds, in conversation with Mira Bartók, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Wendy Chen
Wendy Chen discusses Their Divine Fires at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Amelia Possanza
Amelia Possanza discusses Lesbian Love Story, in conversation with Amy Hoffman, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Rosa Alcalá and Katie Peterson
Rosa Alcalá and Katie Peterson, in conversation with Sandra Lim, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Leah Hager Cohen
Leah Hager Cohen discusses To & Fro, in conversation with Elizabeth Graver, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Boston Poetry Slam
Boston Poetry Slam, with BOX OF DOOM, at The Cantab Lounge. Find more information here.
Tyler Anbinder
Tyler Anbinder discusses Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York at American Ancestors. Find more information here.
Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison discusses Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind, in conversation with Dr. Arthur Kleinman, at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Keith O'Brien
Keith O'Brien discusses Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Vaishnavi Patel
Vaishnavi Patel discusses Goddess of the River, in conversation with Kalyani Saxena, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Emet North
Emet North discusses In Universes: A Novel at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Jenna Tang
Jenna Tang discusses Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise, in conversation with Grace Talusan, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Debra Spark
Debra Spark discusses Discipline at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Andy Jiaming Tang
Andy Jiaming Tang discusses Cinema Love: A Novel, in conversation with Emily Habeck, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Fanny Howe and Suzanne Mercury
Fanny Howe and Suzanne Mercury at Gloucester Writers Center. Find more information here.
Clea Simon
Clea Simon discusses Bad Boy Beat at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Mary Dearborn
Mary Dearborn discusses Carson McCullers: A Life, in conversation with Mary Baine Campbell, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here
Susan Zalkind
Susan Zalkind discusses The Waltham Murders: One Woman's Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Stories from the Stage: Pride
Stories from the Stage: Pride at GBH. Find more information here.
Morgan Baker, Nicole Graev Lipson, and Jessica Fein
Morgan Baker, Nicole Graev Lipson, and Jessica Fein, in conversation with Jean Stehle, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Adrienne Brodeur
Adrienne Brodeur discusses Little Monsters, in conversation with Julia Glass, at East End Books Boston. Find more information here.
Stephen Puleo
Stephen Puleo discusses The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union at American Ancestors. Find more information here.
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid discusses An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Derin Bray and Margaret Hodges
Derin Bray and Margaret Hodges discuss Loud, Naked, & in Three Colors: The Liberty Boys & The History of Tattooing in Boston at Boston Public Library: South Boston. Find more information here.
Memoir Incubator Class of 2024 Graduation and Reading
Memoir Incubator Class of 2024 Graduation and Reading at GrubStreet. Find more information here.
Dr. Adaira Landry and Dr. Resa E. Lewiss
Dr. Adaira Landry and Dr. Resa E. Lewiss discuss MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact, in conversation with Alister Martin, at Boston Public Library: Parker Hill. Find more information here.
Joan Nathan
Joan Nathan discusses My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories, in conversation with Judith Rosenbaum, at The Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.
Boston Poetry Slam
Boston Poetry Slam, with March Penn Book Release, at The Cantab Lounge. Find more information here.
Writing Young Adult Novels with Autumn Allen, T.M. Blanchet, and Desmond Hall
Writing Young Adult Novels with Autumn Allen, T.M. Blanchet, and Desmond Hall at the Cary Memorial Library. Find more information here.
Robin Bernstein
Robin Bernstein discusses Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit, in conversation with Koritha Mitchell, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Ciera Burch
Ciera Burch discusses Something Kindred, in conversation with Mia Tong, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Venki Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan discusses Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality, in conversation with Antonio Regalado, at Harvard University. Find more information here.
Alina Grabowski
Alina Grabowski discusses Women and Children First: A Novel, in conversation with Hanna Halperin, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
John Dear
John Dear discusses The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark, and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence at Sacred Heart Church. Find more information here.
Steven Cramer, Diane Mehta, and Christopher Merrill
Steven Cramer, Diane Mehta, and Christopher Merrill, in conversation with Askold Melnyczuk, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Larry Tye
Larry Tye discusses The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America, in conversation with Gary Burton, at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
Hilke Schellmann
Hilke Schellmann discusses The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, And Why We Need To Fight Back at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
David Krell
David Krell discusses The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.
PSB: BOSTON EDITION Book Club
PSB: BOSTON EDITION Book Club at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Smut Slam
Smut Slam, with Kat Sistare, at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Mark Cecil
Mark Cecil discusses Bunyan and Henry: Or, The Beautiful Destiny, in conversation with Jane Roper, at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.