It's a new year, and things are starting off with a bicentennial bang. With all Baltimore's claims to Edgar Allen Poe, and all the other authors born in Boston, it's easy to forget that the spooky author was born right here. Boston College remembers, though, and is celebrating the bicentennial of Poe's birth with some special events coming up in two weeks. In the meantime, entertain yourself with a mix of gripping and entertaining book events in the next week.
Monday, January 5, 7:00pm
Workshop for Publishing Poets
featuring Dagan Coppock , Rod Kessler, and Claire Keyes
at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, January 6, 7:00pm
Robert Wexelblatt, Zublinka Among Women
at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Ave, Brookline
Wednesday, January 7, 6:00pm
Chris Adrian, A Better Angel
at the Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (sponsored by Porter Square Books)
Wednesday, January 7, 7:00pm
Beniot Denizet-Lewis, America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life
at Brookline Booksmith
Thursday, January 8, 3:00pm
Sasha Watson, Vidalia In Paris
Young Adult Room, Boston Public Library
Thursday, January 8, 7:00pm
James Boice, NoVa
at Brookline Booksmith
Thursday, January 8, 7:00pm
Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
at Harvard Book Store
Sunday, January 11, 2:00pm
Amy Kwei, Intrigue in the House of Wong
at the Boston Public Library
Monday, January 12, 6:00pm
Dr. Diana Kirschner, Love in 90 Days
at the Back Bay Borders (511 Boylston)
Tuesday, January 13, 7:00pm
Elizabeth Hess, Nim Chimpsky
at Porter Square Books
Tuesday, January 13, 7:00pm
Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
at Brookline Booksmith
Tuesday, January 13, 7:00pm
at Harvard Book Store
Janice Y. K. Lee, The Piano Teacher: A Novel
Wednesday, January 14, 7:00pm
Gareth Cook and Jerome Groopman, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008
at Brookline Booksmith
Wednesday, January 14, 7:00pm
Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, Blindspot: A Novel
at Harvard Book Store
Wednesday, January 14, 7:30pm
at First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum
Loretta Napoleoni, Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality
Thursday, January 15, 6:00pm
Kim Bensen, Finally Thin!
at the Back Bay Borders
Thursday, January 15, 7:00pm
Wafaa Bilal, Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun
at Brookline Booksmith
Thursday, January 15, 7:00pm
Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses
at Porter Square Books
Thursday, January 15, 7:30pm
Matthew Pearl, The Poe Shadow and The Dante Club
Scott Peeples, The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe and Edgar Allan Poe Revisited
Part of the Edgar Allen Poe Bicentennial Celebration at Boston College, Devlin Hall 101
Friday, January 16, 7:30pm
Brent Fidler, The Last Days of the Raven (film about Poe)
Part of the Edgar Allen Poe Bicentennial Celebration at Boston College, Devlin Hall 101
Tuesday, January 20, 11:30am
A Special Noon Winedown
Watch the Inauguration Live
at Harvard Book Store
Tuesday, January 20, 7:00pm
John Summers, Every Fury on Earth
George Scialabba, What Are Intellectuals Good For?
at Brookline Booksmith
Wednesday, January 21, 7:00pm
Anita Silvey, I'll Pass for Your Comrade
at Porter Square Books
Wednesday, January 21, 7:00pm
at Harvard Book Store
Nami Mun, Miles from Nowhere
Wednesday, January 21, 7:30pm
The Philosophy Café
Reality: A Necessary Fiction?
at Harvard Book Store, Lower Level
Thursday, January 22, 7:00pm
Christopher Monks, The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life
Ben Greenman, Correspondences
Dan Kennedy, Rock On!
at Brookline Booksmith
Thursday, January 22, 7:00pm
Samuel Shem, The Spirit of the Place
at Porter Square Books
Friday, January 23, 7:00pm
Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
at First Parish Church Meetinghouse ($5)
Monday, January 26, 6:00pm
Tucker Max
at Back Bay Borders
Monday, January 26, 7:00pm
at Harvard Book Store
The Harvard Square Book Circle
George Eliot's Silas Marner
Tuesday, January 27, 6:00pm
at Harvard Book Store
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Tuesday, January 27, 6:30pm
Hallie Ephron, Never Tell a Lie
at Back Bay Borders
Thursday, January 28, 7:00pm
Samuel Shem, The Spirit of the Place
at Brookline Booksmith
Wednesday, January 28, 7:30pm
at First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum
Robert G. Kaiser, So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
Thursday, January 29, 7:00pm
Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne, So Sexy So Soon
at Porter Square Books
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