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It's back to school, and back to the books. September is brimming with book events, from this week's sold-out Junot Diaz production to Dennis Lehane to Billy Collins and more.
*Friday, September 5th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Randa Jarrar & Padma Viswanathan, A Map of Home and The Toss of a Lemon
*Monday, September 8th, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Paul Auster, Man in the Dark
Tuesday, September 9, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Carol Band, A Household Word
Tuesday, September 9th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Louis Bayard, The Black Tower
Tuesday, September 9th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Frank Wilczek, The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
Wednesday, September 10, 6:00pm, Hotel Marlowe
Barbara Helfgott Hyett
Wednesday, September 10th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Maureen N. McLane, Same Life: Poems
Wednesday, September 10, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Gary Braver, Skin Deep
Wednesday, September 10th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Tom Piazza, City of Refuge
*Thursday, September 11th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Lucy McCauley, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008: True Stories from Around the World
Thursday, September 11th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Kate Christensen, The Great Man
Thursday, September 11, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Dennis McCullough, My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing Slow Medicine
*Monday, September 15th, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Slavoj Zizek, Violence
Monday, September 15, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Pagan Kennedy, The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories
Tuesday Septemer 16th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Jennet Conant, The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
*Tuesday, September 16th, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Brian Greene, Icarus at the Edge of Time
Tuesday, September 16, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Contributors to The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008
Wednesday, September 17th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Kerry Kennedy, Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change and the Quest for Meaning
Wednesday, September 17th, 7:30pm, Harvard Book Store, Lower Level
The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store, "Mental vs. Physical: Does Folk Metaphysics Get It Right?"
Wednesday, September 17th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Adam Davies, Mine All Mine
Brock Clarke, The Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Wednesday, September 17, 1:30pm, Porter Square Books
Jane Yolen, Sea Queens
*Wednesday, September 17, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Leland Kinsey, The Immigrant's Contract
Thursday, September 18th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Marion Nestle, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
*Thursday, September 18th, 7:30pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse
Lynn Margulis, Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love
Thursday, September 18, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Neil Miller, Kartchner Caverns
*Thursday, September 18th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
The Best American Poetry 2008 with Franz Wright, Maxine Kumin, and Dara Weir
Friday, September 19th, 3:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum with Robert Coles and Albert LaFarge, Minding the Store: Great Literature About Business
Friday, September 19th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Saturday, September 20th, 7:00pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
Neal Stephenson, Anathem
Monday, September 22nd, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies
Monday, September 22nd 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
Tuesday, September 23, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Francine Prose, Goldengrove
Tuesday, September 23rd, 6:00pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5
Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
Tuesday, September 23rd, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife: A Novel
Wednesday, September 24th, 7:00p.m., Harvard Book Store
Dubravka Ugresic, Nobody’s Home: Essays
Thursday, September 25th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
John Zogby, The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Dramatic Changes Transforming the American Dream
Thursday, September 25, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Nick Daniloff, Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent
Thursday, September 25th, 6:00pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre
Billy Collins, Ballistic: Poems
Friday September 26th, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Julian Barnes, Nothing To Be Frightened Of
*Friday, September 26th, 3:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum, Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
*Friday, September 26, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
John Mitchell (guest MassDebater!), Paradise of All These Parts
Friday, September 26th, 6:00pm, Charles Hotel
"Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection,” a panel discussion with John T. Cacioppo, Mazharin Banaji, Nancy Kanwisher, and Stephen Kosslyn (R.S.V.P. at connection@harvard.com to reserve a place)
Monday, September 29th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
Book Discussion: The Harvard Square Book Circle will discuss Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
*Monday, September 29th, 7:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $10
Editor Matt Weiland with, Alison Bechdel, Tony Horwitz , Joshua Clark, and others, State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
Tuesday, September 30th, 7:00pm, Harvard Book Store
William Corbett, Opening Day
Tuesday, September 30, 7:00pm, Porter Square Books
Bill Buffett, Foods You Will Enjoy
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