Local Readings and Events

Jun
17

Square Root Readings: Summer Day Poetry Reading + Open Mic

Square Root Readings: Summer Day Poetry Reading + Open Mic, with Rachel Becker, Benjamin Bellet, and Liza Halley, hosted by Kristin Kelley, at the Square Root. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Jana Milbocker

Jana Milbocker discusses Gardens of the Gilded Age: Lavish Landscapes from America's Golden Era at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

DotStories LGBTQ+ Storytelling

DotStories LGBTQ+ Storytelling at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Joseph Osmundson

Joseph Osmundson discusses Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood, in conversation with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Carol Ann Davis and Susan Lewis

Carol Ann Davis and Susan Lewis at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Third Thursdays Poetry: June

Third Thursdays Poetry: June at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Gloria Monaghan and Jim Dunn

Gloria Monaghan and Jim Dunn at Gloucester Writers Center. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Lois Cahall

Lois Cahall discusses Maybe Marilyn, in conversation with Joanna Rakoff, at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

T.J. Martinson

T.J. Martinson discusses Blood River Witch at Belmont Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Fiction Book Club with Brenna

Fiction Book Club with Brenna discusses Isola by Allegra Goodman at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki discusses The Typing Lady, in conversation with Julia Glass, at St. James Episcopal Church. Find more information here.

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Jun
18

Romance Book Club

Romance Book Club discusses Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.

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Jun
19

Teen Book Club

Teen Book Club at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
20

Eddy Inserra

Eddy Inserra signs Confidence of The Mob at Used Book Superstore. Find more information here.

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Jun
20

Sara Levine

Sara Levine discusses A Visit with the Birds: A Hands-on Nature Book at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
20

Kate Fussner

Kate Fussner signs 13 Ways to Say Goodbye and The Song of Us at Rozzie Bound Co-op. Find more information here.

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Jun
20

Maddie Frost

Maddie Frost discusses The Stuffie Stand at Fifer’s Day. Find more information here.

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Jun
20

R.W. Alley

R.W. Alley discusses Construction Crews Build Big at TLC Studios. Find more information here.

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Jun
20

Rasheed Newson

Rasheed Newson discusses There's Only One Sin in Hollywood, in conversation with Nathan Tavares, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
21

Books and Brews Bookfair

Books and Brews Bookfair at Medford Brewing Company. Find more information here.

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Jun
21

Mckendy Fils-Aimé

Mckendy Fils-Aimé discusses sipèstisyon at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.

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Jun
21

Poetry Open Mic

Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
21

Fish Tales

Fish Tales at The Cut. Find more information here.

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Jun
22

Sarah G. Levine

Sarah G. Levine discusses It’s Never Going to Happen at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
22

Joshua Kendall

Joshua Kendall discusses Trudeau & Doonesbury, in conversation with Bruce Schulman, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
22

Patricia Park

Patricia Park discusses Ambrosia Lee Drops the Mic, in conversation with Whitney Scharer, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
22

Stephen O'Connor

Stephen O'Connor discusses We Want So Much to Be Ourselves, in conversation with Rick Moody, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Betty's Lunchtime Book Group

Betty's Lunchtime Book Group discusses The Names by Florence Knapp at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Emily Martin

Emily Martin discusses Winner Takes All at Molly's Bookstore. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Keith Jones

Keith Jones discusses Las Palmas at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Book Club Book Moot with Sammie

Book Club Book Moot with Sammie discusses The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Daphne James Huff

Daphne James Huff discusses Fire Burn and Champagne Bubbles at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Heather Frances

Heather Frances discusses Chase Me If You Can, in conversation with Chelsea Curto, at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Thomas S. Mullaney

Thomas S. Mullaney discusses How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information, in conversation with Ann Blair, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Earfull

Earfull, with Keith O'Brien and Charlie Pierce, at Branch Line Restaurant. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Lauren Hartman, MD

Lauren Hartman, MD discusses Freeing Children and Young Adults from Shame, Scales, and Stigma, in conversation with Allison Baker, MD, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
23

Nathan Tavares

Nathan Tavares discusses The Disco at the End of the World, in conversation with Sara Farizan, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Eric Jay Dolin

Eric Jay Dolin discusses The Wreck of the Mentor at Boston Athenaeum. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Reading for Revolution

Reading for Revolution discusses Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Le club des lecteurs

Le club des lecteurs discusses Instruments des ténèbres by Nancy Huston at French Library. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Dr. Emily Sneff

Dr. Emily Sneff discusses When the Declaration of Independence Was News at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Chipo Dendere

Chipo Dendere discusses Death, Diversion, and Departure: Voter Exit and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Zimbabwe, in conversation with Kellie Carter Jackson, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Gabrielle Korn

Gabrielle Korn discusses Long Island Girls, in conversation with Christina Pascucci-Ciampa, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Sci-Fi Book Club

Sci-Fi Book Club discusses The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Matthew Henry, Jack Saebyok Jung, and Joan Naviyuk Kane

Matthew Henry, Jack Saebyok Jung, and Joan Naviyuk Kane at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston discusses The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays, in conversation with Daniel José Older, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Meg Stone

Meg Stone discusses "Don't Fight Back": And 10 Other Myths About Crime, Personal Safety, and Gender-Based Violence, in conversation with Shameka Gregory, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
24

Emily Martin

Emily Martin discusses Winner Takes All at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

FreeVerse x MOMENTUM

FreeVerse x MOMENTUM at Puma Headquarters. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

High Tea Book Club

High Tea Book Club discusses Whistler: A Novel by Ann Patchett at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Reading Romance Boston Book Club

Reading Romance Boston Book Club at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Andrew Leland

Andrew Leland discusses The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight at the Public Library of Brookline. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

The Thursday Murder Book Club

The Thursday Murder Book Club at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Essay Incubator Graduation Showcase 2026

Essay Incubator Graduation Showcase 2026 at GrubStreet. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Sarah C. Beckmann

Sarah C. Beckmann discusses The Race for Daphne, in conversation with Tatiana Johnson-Boria, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Michael Bronski

Michael Bronski discusses A Queer History of the United States: Revised and Expanded at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Hannah Selinger

Hannah Selinger discusses Valley of the Moms, in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Fiction Book Club

Fiction Book Club discusses So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Diane Les Becquets

Diane Les Becquets discusses Where the Water Meets the Sky, in conversation with Susan Donovan Bernhard, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Poetry Open Mic Night

Poetry Open Mic Night at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Kevin Gallagher and Wang Ping

Kevin Gallagher and Wang Ping, in conversation with Mark Pawlak, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.

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Jun
25

Literature Junkies Book Club

Literature Junkies Book Club discusses Three Days in June: A Novel by Anne Tyler at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.

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Jun
26

Reading Frederick Douglass Together 2026

Reading Frederick Douglass Together 2026 at Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial. Find more information here.

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Jun
26

Melissa Jun Rowley

Melissa Jun Rowley discusses Beyond the Mic Drop, in conversation with Tory Stephens, at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.

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Jun
26

Phill Branch

Phill Branch discusses The Double Dutch Fuss, in conversation with Erica Buddington, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
27

2026 Pride Book Fair: Out On The Shelves

2026 Pride Book Fair: Out On The Shelves at Connexion. Find more information here.

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Jun
27

Roxbury Poetry Festival

Roxbury Poetry Festival at Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building. Find more information here.

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Jun
27

Yola Thorp

Yola Thorp discusses Sightseeing Sophie in Boston at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
27

Kristen Wixted and Sam Donovan

Kristen Wixted and Sam Donovan discuss Miss Rita, Mystery Reader at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.

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Jun
27

Joan M. Blake

Joan M. Blake discusses Standing On His Promises: Then and Now at Boston Public Library: Shaw-Roxbury. Find more information here.

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Jun
27

FreeVerse x MOMENTUM

FreeVerse x MOMENTUM at Franklin Park. Find more information here.

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Jun
27

Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell discusses Land, in conversation with Celeste Ng, at First Parish Church. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Petrichor Bookstore Pop-Up

Petrichor Bookstore Pop-Up at SoWa Market. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

A Grown-Up Book Fair & Swap

A Grown-Up Book Fair & Swap at Dorchester Brewing Company. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Books and Brews Boston

Books and Brews Boston at Dorchester Brewing Company. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Horror Book Club

Horror Book Club discusses The September House by Carissa Orlando at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Guna's Book Club

Guna's Book Club discusses The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Carla Panciera, Ed Meek, and James K. Zimmerman

Carla Panciera, Ed Meek, and James K. Zimmerman at The Old Manse. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Monica Acker

Monica Acker discusses The Legend of Leo: A Dandy-Lion Tale at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Fantasy Book Club

Fantasy Book Club discusses Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

FreeVerse x MOMENTUM

FreeVerse x MOMENTUM at Substation. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Kallie Emblidge and Anna McCallie

Kallie Emblidge and Anna McCallie at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

June Harvard Square Book Circle

June Harvard Square Book Circle discusses Lavender House: A Novel by Lev AC Rosen at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
28

Poetry Open Mic

Poetry Open Mic, with Scott Beal, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
29

Lorna Gibson

Lorna Gibson discusses Birds Up Close at Boston Athenaeum. Find more information here.

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Jun
29

Pride U35 Reading

Pride U35 Reading at GrubStreet. Find more information here.

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Jun
29

All-Author D&D

All-Author D&D, with Cassandra Khaw, Jedediah Berry, Lenora Woods, and Makana Yamamoto, at Upstairs at Bow. Find more information here.

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Jun
29

Radhika Singh

Radhika Singh discusses Earthly Playing Field, in conversation with Aba Taylor, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
29

Isaac Butler

Isaac Butler discusses The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
29

Cambridge Edition Book Club

Cambridge Edition Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Dr. Beronda Montgomery

Dr. Beronda Montgomery discusses When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical History, in conversation with Tracy K. Smith, at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

The Moth: Boston StorySlam – Holiday Gone Wrong

The Moth: Boston StorySlam – Holiday Gone Wrong at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Lesley Mahoney O'Connell

Lesley Mahoney O'Connell discusses Ripple Effects: And Other Stories at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Alexus King

Alexus King discusses Every Summer After You at Hummingbird Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow discusses Names Have Been Changed, in conversation with Shubha Sunder, at Eliot Hall. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Lauren Hough

Lauren Hough discusses Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America, in conversation with Laura McKowen, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton discusses Typewriter Beach at Book Shop of Needham. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Kate Woodworth, Lisa Genova, and Jenna Blum

Kate Woodworth, Lisa Genova, and Jenna Blum at Belmont Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Side Quest Book Club

Side Quest Book Club discusses Idolfire by Grace Curtis at Side Quest Books & Games. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay discusses Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, in conversation with Elizabeth Gonzalez James, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
30

Loubna Mrie

Loubna Mrie discusses Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria, in conversation with Ambassador Samantha Power, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

Fergus M. Bordewich

Fergus M. Bordewich discusses Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future, in conversation with Kate Clifford Larson, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

Emily Lynn Paulson

Emily Lynn Paulson discusses The Revenge Party, in conversation with Laura McKowen, at Hummingbird Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

After the End Mini Tour

After the End Mini Tour, with Ali Hazelwood, Adriana Herrara, Elizabeth Stephens, and Nikki Payne, at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

Judith Enck

Judith Enck discusses The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late, in conversation with David Abel, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

Nancy Bernhard

Nancy Bernhard discusses The Double Standard Sporting House, in conversation with Stacy Malone, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

Julie Gerstenblatt

Julie Gerstenblatt discusses The Stargazer of Nantucket, in conversation with Whitney Scharer, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

Tiffany D. Cross

Tiffany D. Cross discusses Love, Me: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship, in conversation with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

Eric Moskowitz

Eric Moskowitz discusses The Hardest, Longest Race at Boston Athenaeum. Find more information here.

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Jun
17

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh discusses Ghost Eye, in conversation with Garnette Cadogan, at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.

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Jun
16

Liaquat Ahamed

Liaquat Ahamed discusses 873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World, in conversation with Roger Lowenstein, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
16

Earfull

Earfull, with Laura Zigman and Tom Perrotta, at Branch Line Restaurant. Find more information here.

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Jun
16

Chris Smalls

Chris Smalls discusses When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class, in conversation with Katie Johnston, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
16

Jenn Garofolo

Jenn Garofolo discusses Fighting For Their Lives at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
16

Side Quest Book Club

Side Quest Book Club discusses The Lost Book of Lancelot by John Glynn at Side Quest Books & Games. Find more information here.

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Jun
16

DBQ's Book Club

DBQ's Book Club discusses Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery by Margot Douaihy at Dani's Queer Bar. Find more information here.

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Jun
16

Nicole Blades

Nicole Blades discusses Would I Lie to You?, in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan, at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.

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Jun
16

ACOTAR Reread Book Club

ACOTAR Reread Book Club at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here.

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Jun
15

Todd Smith

Todd Smith discusses Relegated: One American's Pints-and-Pies Journey from the Top to the Bottom of English Football, in conversation with Keith O'Brien, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.

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Jun
15

Edward Schmit

Edward Schmit discusses The Open Era, in conversation with Sarina Bowen, at Lovestruck Books & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
15

Abigail Savitch-Lew

Abigail Savitch-Lew discusses Livonia Chow Mein, in conversation with Michelle Min Sterling, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.

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Jun
15

Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club

Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.

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Jun
15

Nick Greene

Nick Greene discusses How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, in conversation with Emily Franklin, at Harvard COOP. Find more information here.

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Jun
15

Eddie Glaude Jr.

Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses America, U.S.A.: How Race Overshadows the Nation's Anniversaries, in conversation with Scott Tong, at WBUR CitySpace. Find more information here.

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Jun
15

Rye Barcott

Rye Barcott discusses Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future, in conversation with Congressman Seth Moulton, at Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.

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Jun
14

Poetry Open Mic

Poetry Open Mic, with Chiara De Lello, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.

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Jun
14

Pamela Kelley and Jessica Everett

Pamela Kelley discusses Nantucket Second Chances and Jessica Everett discusses Last Summer at Maine Chance at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.

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Jun
14

Frinde Maher

Frinde Maher discusses Class Encounters: A Memoir of the 1960s at Belmont Books. Find more information here.

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Jun
14

Todd Smith

Todd Smith discusses Relegated: My Pints and Pies Journey From the Top to the Bottom of English Football, in conversation with Keith O'Brien, at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.

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Jun
14

Readings from the Room

Readings from the Room at The Writers’ Room of Boston. Find more information here.

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Jun
14

Romantasy Book Club

Romantasy Book Club discusses The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.

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