Book It: This Week's Book Events (September 12-27)

Paul Theroux! Dennis Lehane! Billy Collins! Whoa! This week brings us a lot of big names with local connections. Bask in the Massachusetts-centered literariness while it lasts, before everybody goes back to Brooklyn.

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)