
Local Readings and Events
The Poetry Brothel Boston: Astro Poetica
The Poetry Brothel Boston: Astro Poetica at Sonia Live Music Venue. Find more information here.
Katie Slivensky and Steph Stilwell
Katie Slivensky and Steph Stilwell discuss I, Rock: A Geology Tale at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Ellen Mayer
Ellen Mayer discusses Gift & Box at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Jeff Hiller
Jeff Hiller discusses Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success at East End Books Boston. Find more information here.
Don Gillis
Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers, in conversation with Ben Weber and Enid Eckstein, at Boston Public Library: Jamaica Plain. Find more information here.
June Breakfast Club
June Breakfast Club discusses Women! In! Peril!: Stories by Jessica Ren Marshall at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Feel It, Speak It Open Mic
Feel It, Speak It Open Mic at Civic Pavillion. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Marcus Rediker
Marcus Rediker discusses Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea, in conversation with Lee Blake, at American Ancestors. Find more information here.
Don Gillis
Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers, in conversation with Bill Walczak, at Boston Public Library: Codman Square. Find more information here.
Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club
Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Phil Melanson
Phil Melanson discusses Florenzer: A Novel at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries discusses The ABCs of Democracy at Memorial Church. Find more information here.
Romance Book Club
Romance Book Club discusses Deep End by Ali Hazelwood at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Betty's Lunchtime Book Group
Betty's Lunchtime Book Group discusses The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Julia S. Powell
Julia S. Powell discusses The Pillowpuffs at Beacon Hill Books and Café. Find more information here.
Queer YA Author Panel In-Person
Queer YA Author Panel In-Person, with Sara Farizan, Sacha Lamb, and Kasey LeBlanc, at The Public Library of Brookline. Find more information here.
Don Gillis
Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers at West End Museum. Find more information here.
Auston Habershaw
Auston Habershaw discusses If Wishes Were Retail at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.
Rob Franklin
Rob Franklin discusses Great Black Hope, in conversation with Saeed Jones, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
B. A. Shapiro
B. A. Shapiro discusses The Lost Masterpiece: A Novel at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Chip Pons
Chip Pons discusses Winging It With You at Lovestruck Books. Find more information here.
DQB's Book Club
DQB's Book Club discusses Siren Queen by Nghi Vo at Dani's Queer Bar. Find more information here.
Stephanie Burt
Stephanie Burt discusses Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Makana Yamamoto
Makana Yamamoto discusses Hammajang Luck at Side Quest Books & Games. Find more information here.
Jeanne Thornton
Jeanne Thornton discusses A/S/L, in conversation with Calvin Gimpelevich, at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Earfull
Earfull, with Michael Farris Smith and Ernest Thompson, at Branch Line. Find more information here.
Read My Lips Boston Hot Queer Summer: Diverse Romance Recs
Read My Lips Boston Hot Queer Summer: Diverse Romance Recs at Ashland Public Library. Find more information here.
Beth Le Manach
Beth Le Manach discusses Entertaining 101: 101 Recipes Every Host Should Know How to Make at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
PEM Reads: Moby-Dick Read-a-Thon
PEM Reads: Moby-Dick Read-a-Thon at Peabody Essex Museum. Find more information here.
Tamara Myles
Tamara Myles discusses Meaningful Work at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Mac Crane
Mac Crane discusses A Sharp Endless Need, in conversation with Frankie de la Cretaz, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
B.A. Shapiro
B.A. Shapiro discusses The Lost Masterpiece: A Novel at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Jess Walter
Jess Walter discusses So Far Gone: A Novel at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Alden Jones, Calvin Gimpelevich, and Sara Orozco
Alden Jones, Calvin Gimpelevich, and Sara Orozco discusses Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Dahlia Adler
Dahlia Adler discusses Come As You Are, in conversation with Diana Urban and Jennifer Dugan, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Hannah Brooks-Motl, Kate Colby, and Adam Munsey Tobin
Hannah Brooks-Motl, Kate Colby, and Adam Munsey Tobin at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Writers’ Room After Hours: Mable Chan
Writers’ Room After Hours: Mable Chan, in conversation with Margery Gans, at The Writers' Room of Boston. Find more information here.
Queer Book Club
Queer Book Club discusses Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolás at Lovestruck Books. Find more information here.
Fiction Book Club with Jeanne
Fiction Book Club with Jeanne discusses Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.
Rozzie Reads Poetry
Rozzie Reads Poetry, with Kathleen Aguero and Sara Letourneau, at Roslindale House. Find more information here.
Jessica Shattuck
Jessica Shattuck discusses Last House at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Romance Book Club
Romance Book Club discusses The Pairing by Casey McQuiston at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Griffin Dunne
Griffin Dunne discusses The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
JUST BE(LOVED) Poetry Slam & Open Mic
JUST BE(LOVED) Poetry Slam & Open Mic at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Thomas Mallon
Thomas Mallon discusses The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994, in conversation with Christopher Castellani, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Helen Whybrow
Helen Whybrow discusses The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
V.E. Schwab
V.E. Schwab discusses Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil at All Saints Parish. Find more information here.
Milo Todd
Milo Todd discusses The Lilac People, in conversation with Annie Hartnett, at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman discusses The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, in conversation with Joan Ilacqua, at Connexion. Find more information here.
Grace Lin
Grace Lin discusses Ugly Vegetables at Thomas Crane Public Library. Find more information here.
Amy Moore
Amy Moore discusses The Baker's Dozen at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Pam Vaughan
Pam Vaughan discusses Tenacious Won't Give Up at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up at The Urban Grape. Find more information here.
Grace Lin
Grace Lin discusses Big Mooncake at North Quincy Library. Find more information here.
Summer Solstice Poetry Reading
Summer Solstice Poetry Reading at Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Find more information here.
Museum of Poets Boston
Museum of Poets Boston at Piano Craft Gallery. Find more information here.
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up at Pride in the Park. Find more information here.
Poetry at the Manse
Poetry at the Manse: Catherine Staples, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes, and Elizabeth McCarthy at The Old Manse. Find more information here.
Books & Brews Bookfair
Books & Brews Bookfair at Medford Brewing Company. Find more information here.
Fantasy Book Club
Fantasy Book Club discusses Voyage of the Damned by Frances White at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Sarah G. Levine
Sarah G. Levine discusses Emma by the Sea at Lovestruck Books. Find more information here.
Reading Frederick Douglass Together
Reading Frederick Douglass Together at First Baptist Church of JP. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Robert W. Fieseler
Robert W. Fieseler discusses American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
J. Courtney Sullivan
J. Courtney Sullivan discusses The Cliffs: A Novel, in conversation with Joanna Rakoff, at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Bennett Parten and Manisha Sinha
Bennett Parten discusses Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation and Manisha Sinha discusses The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 at American Ancestors. Find more information here.
An Appetite for Books
An Appetite for Books discusses Barbecue by Hugh Mangum at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
Dawn Eden Goldstein
Dawn Eden Goldstein discusses The Sacred Heart: A Love For All Times at Sacred Heart Church. Find more information here.
Cambridge Edition Book Club
Cambridge Edition Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Kevin Sack
Kevin Sack discusses Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church, in conversation with Jim Dao, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Sachiko Kashiwaba and Avery Fischer Udagawa
Sachiko Kashiwaba and Avery Fischer Udagawa discuss The Village Beyond the Mist, in conversation with Kalyani Saxena, at Coolidge Corner Theatre. Find more information here.
Kellie Carter Jackson
Kellie Carter Jackson discusses We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Find more information here.
The Moth: Boston StorySLAM
The Moth: Boston StorySLAM at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Have You Read This? Book Club
Have You Read This? Book Club discusses Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.
Elissa Altman
Elissa Altman discusses Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create, in conversation with Tova Mirvis, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Madeleine Thien and Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Madeleine Thien discusses The Book of Records: A Novel and Jonas Hassen Khemiri discusses The Sisters: A Novel, in conversation with Lewis Hyde, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Trans YA Book Club
Trans YA Book Club discusses I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver at QT Library. Find more information here.
Side Quest Book Club
Side Quest Book Club discusses The Incandescent by Emily Tesh at Side Quest Books & Games. Find more information here.
Earfull
Earfull, with Jessica Berger Gross and Jessica Shattuck, at Branch Line. Find more information here.
Grubbie Debut: Danit Brown
Grubbie Debut: Danit Brown discusses Television for Women, in conversation with Andrea Meyer, at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Weina Dai Randel
Weina Dai Randel discusses The Master Jeweler, in conversation with Crystal King, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Kate Marvel
Kate Marvel discusses Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, in conversation with Miriam Wasser, at Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.
Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett discusses Stop Me If You've Heard This One, in conversation with Jill McDonough, at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
So You Want to Write a Romance Novel
So You Want to Write a Romance Novel, with Maggie Cooper, at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Katie Sturino
Katie Sturino discusses Sunny Side Up at Lovestruck Books. Find more information here.
Tessa Bolsover, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, and James Shea
Tessa Bolsover, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, and James Shea with an introduction by Janaka Stucky at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Heather Clark
Heather Clark discusses The Scrapbook: A Novel, in conversation with Natalie Dykstra, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Jyotsna Vaid and Amy Hoffman
Jyotsna Vaid and Amy Hoffman discuss Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
John Sanbonmatsu
John Sanbonmatsu discusses The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, in conversation with Frances Moore Lappé, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Mike Curato
Mike Curato discusses Gaysians, in conversation with Malinda Lo, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien discusses The Book of Records, in conversation with Jonas Hassen Khemiri, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Roohi Choudhry
Roohi Choudhry discusses Outside Women, in conversation with Celeste Ng and Neema Avashia at Narrative Book Shop. Find more information here.
Show Up and Write
Show Up and Write at Panethnic Pourovers. Find more information here.
Reading4Revolution
Reading4Revolution discusses Amilca Babral: A Political Life in Motion by Mário de Andrade at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Reading Romance Boston - Book Club
Reading Romance Boston - Book Club at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Charlie Baker and Steve Kadish
Charlie Baker and Steve Kadish discuss Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done, in conversation with Lee Pelton, at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
Daniel Joseph Gonzalez
Daniel Joseph Gonzalez discusses The Rise and Fall of Boston Pride: The Rise of a Movement, The Fall of an Organization at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.
The Thursday Murder Book Club
The Thursday Murder Book Club discusses The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
Fiction Book Club
Fiction Book Club discusses Mansion Beach by Meg Mitchell Moore at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Heather Clark
Heather Clark discusses The Scrapbook: A Novel, in conversation with Rebecca Donner, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Jonathan Gluck
Jonathan Gluck discusses An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and Hope at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
The Long Poem: A Reading and Discussion
The Long Poem: A Reading and Discussion featuring Elizabeth Gray and Daniel Tobin at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Sarah Moon
Sarah Moon discusses Family Week, in conversation with Kimm Topping, at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Dwyer Murphy
Dwyer Murphy discusses The House on Buzzards Bay: A Novel at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Robert P. Baird
Robert P. Baird discusses The Nimbus: A Novel, in conversation with J. D. Daniels, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Michelle Huneven
Michelle Huneven discusses Bug Hollow, in conversation with J. Courtney Sullivan, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Amanda Davis
Amanda Davis discusses Moonlight Memories at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Janice Hechter
Janice Hechter discusses Where Are the Women? The Girl Scouts' Campaign for the First Statue of Women in Central Park at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
jessica Care moore
jessica Care moore discusses Your Crown Shines at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Guna's Book Club
Guna's Book Club discusses Tom Lake: A Novel by Ann Patchett at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Kelsey B. Toney
Kelsey B. Toney discusses The Unexpected Consequence of Bleeding on a Tuesday at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Meg Stone
Meg Stone discusses The Cost of Fear, in conversation with Shameka Gregory, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Harvard Square Book Circle
Harvard Square Book Circle discusses Nevada: A Novel by Imogen Binnie at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Nigel Hamilton
Nigel Hamilton discusses Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
Carla Sosenko
Carla Sosenko discusses I'll Look So Hot in a Coffin: And Other Thoughts I Used to Have About My Body at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
Weina Dai Randel
Weina Dai Randel discusses The Master Jeweler, in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan, at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.
Marie Rutkoski
Marie Rutkoski discusses Ordinary Love: A Novel, in conversation with Jessica Shattuck, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles discusses Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, in conversation with Callie Crossley, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Lucas Schaefer
Lucas Schaefer discusses The Slip, in conversation with Aube Rey Lescure, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Adam Met
Adam Met discusses Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World at First Parish Church. Find more information here.
Transnational Literature Series: Ammiel Alcalay
Transnational Literature Series: Ammiel Alcalay discusses Controlled Demolition: a work in four books at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Don Gillis
Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith discuss Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter at MIT Museum. Find more information here.
An Evening of Stories with Raúl the Third
An Evening of Stories with Raúl the Third at 826 Boston. Find more information here.
Readings from the Room
Readings from the Room, with Ali Dening, Lilly Milman, and Jack Coyne, at The Writers' Room of Boston. Find more information here.
Dr. Pria Anand
Dr. Pria Anand discusses The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains, in conversation with Dr. Suzanne Koven, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Thriller Book Club
Thriller Book Club discusses Dying to Meet You by Sarina Bowen at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Andrea Ballou, Patrick Donnelly, and Charles Hartman
Andrea Ballou, Patrick Donnelly, and Charles Hartman, with an introduction by Martha Collins at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Julia Blanter
Julia Blanter discusses The Martha's Vineyard Cookbook, in conversation with Elle Simone Scott, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Michael Vorenberg
Michael Vorenberg discusses Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War, in conversation with Dimitry Anselme, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Angela Jackson
Angela Jackson discusses The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success, in conversation with Vanessa Kirsch, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Non-Fiction Book Club with Nina
Non-Fiction Book Club with Nina discusses While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.
Jessica Levai
Jessica Levai discusses The Glass Garden: A Novella at Thomas Crane Public Library. Find more information here.
Alexandria Russell
Alexandria Russell discusses Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Banned Book Club
Banned Book Club discusses This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson at Rozzie Bound. Find more information here.
Diverse Romance Book Club
Diverse Romance Book Club discusses You're It by Cleo White at The Annex at the Charles River Speedway. Find more information here.
Don Gillis
Don Gillis discusses The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers at Boston Public Library: South Boston. Find more information here.
Molly Jong-Fast
Molly Jong-Fast discusses How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir, in conversation with Laura Zigman, at Cambridge Public Library. Find more information here.
Book Club for the Curious
Book Club for the Curious discusses Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery at the Museum of Science. Find more information here.
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up at Rite Tea & Espresso. Find more information here.
Dr. Pria Anand
Dr. Pria Anand discusses The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains, in conversation with Dr. Jason Silverstein, at BioMed Realty. Find more information here.
Allison King
Allison King discusses The Phoenix Pencil Company, in conversation with Ken Liu, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Book Clhub
Book Clhub discusses Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson at Hub Comics. Find more information here.
Queer Book Club
Queer Book Club discusses I Might Be in Trouble by Daniel Aleman at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.