Book It: December Book Events

December is the perfect month to curl up with a good book, but the book events—like most everything else in life—taper off toward the end of the month. Get out to the stores early this month to stock up on titles to read during the long holiday break. Harvard Book Store's first-ever warehouse sale this Saturday, December 6, is a great opportunity to buy books for yourself and others as the holiday season approaches. We've added Harvard Coop events this month, and are trying out a new format as well. Let us know if you like it.

Monday, December 1

7pm,Porter Square Books
Workshop for Publishing Poets: Rachel Goldstein, Eric Hyett, Susan Nisenbaum Becker

Tuesday, December 2

6pm, Abbey Room, Boston Public Library main branch
Stewart O'Nan, Songs for the Missing

6pm, Rabb Lecture hall, Boston Public Library main branch
Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan, Recording the Beatles

7pm, Harvard Book Store
Steve Fainaru, Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq

7pm, Porter Square Books
Holiday Book Ideas: Learn which books make the best gifts

Wednesday, December 3

6pm, Hotel Marlowe (25 Edwin H Land Blvd, Cambridge)
PEN New England Readings: Sven Birkerts

6pm, Rabb Lecture hall, Boston Public Library main branch
Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
A lecture on social justice as it relates to Lehane's new novel.

7pm, Harvard Coop Level 3
Selwyn Cudjoe, Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation

7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Poets from the Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2009

7pm, Harvard Book Store
David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream

7:30pm, First Parish Church
Sharon Waxman, Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World

7:30pm, Harvard Hillel, Smith Hall
Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim in conversation with Brown University's Michael Steinberg

Thursday, December 4

4:30pm, Boston Public Library West Roxbury Branch
Sook Nyul Choi, Year of Impossible Goodbyes and Gathering of Pearls.

5pm, Brookline Booksmith
Brookline Library Authors' Collaborative: Readings by 14 Local Authors

7pm, Harvard Book Store
Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books

7pm, Harvard Coop Level 3
Samantha Power, Chasing the Flame

Friday, December 5

3pm, Harvard Book Store
Louisa Gilder, The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn

7pm, Porter Square Books
Breakwater Reading Series featuring MFA students from UMass Boston and Emerson College

7pm, Harvard Coop Level 3
Wafaa Bilal, Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun.

Saturday, December 6

10am-4pm, Harvard Book Store's first-ever warehouse sale with $1 books and other bargains