Book It: Book Events October 19-25

Sunday, October 19, 6:00pm, Enormous Room (569 Mass Ave, Cambridge)
Four Stories with Andre Dubus III and Margot Livesey, plus young writers from Grub Street's YAWP Teen Writing Fellowship and Beacon Academy

Monday, October 20, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Laurence H. Tribe, The Invisible Constitution

Monday, October 20, 7:30pm, First Parish Church
Fred Pearce, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff

Monday, October 20, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Katie Goodman, Improvisation for the Spirit: Live a More Creative, Spontaneous, and Courageous Life Using the Tools of Improv Comedy

*Monday, October 20, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Leslie Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

We tend to think of migrant workers as agricultural, but there are migrant factory workers as well. Easily disconnected from friends and family, easily catapulted toward success by learning English or computer skills, China’s 130 million (almost half the population of the U.S.) migrant workers are a huge force. Chang explores their experience, telling of a shoe factory with its own hospital, cinema, and firefighters (really) and Chinese New Year celebrations in a remote village. Learn about a world you never knew existed.

Tuesday, October 21, Harvard Book Store
Meet and greet with new HBS owner Jeff Mayersohn

Tuesday, October 21, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
The First Amendment Speakers Bureau

Tuesday, October 21, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Jeffrey Lewis, Adam the King

Wednesday, October 22, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

Wednesday, October 22, 6:00pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5.00
John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require

Wednesday, October 22, 6:00pm McKim Orientation Room, BPL
Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

Wednesday, October 22, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World

Thursday, October 23, 7:00pm, Brookline Booksmith
Todd Hasak-Lowy, Captives

Thursday, October 23, 6:00pm, Brattle Theatre, $30*
Art Spiegelman, Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young #@&*!

*redeem your ticket for a copy of Breakdowns

Thursday, October 23, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
M. T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 2

Friday, October 24, 3:00pmHarvard Book Store
Sandy Pentland, Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World

Friday, October 24, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Susan Cheever, Desire: When Sex Meets Addiction

Saturday, October 25, 6:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Cathleen Bell, Launch Party for Slipping