Book It: March Book Events

book-it.jpg March brings us Women's History Month and a host of book events, some of them female-focused. From fine fiction to incisive historical analysis, the readings this month run the gamut. Big names are largely absent, but big ideas still abound.


Monday, March 2

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Workshop for Publishing Poets

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
John Perkins, The Secret History of the American Empire


Tuesday, March 3

6:00 pm, French Library Alliance Française of Boston (53 Marlborough St)
Free for members, $5 for non-members
Jamie Cat Callan, French Women Don't Sleep Alone

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Jedediah Berry and Ira Sher, The Manual of Detection and Singer

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
David Webber, Storm From The Shadows


Wednesday, March 4

5:00 pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
Richard Goldberg, The Battle for Wall Street

6:00 pm, Hotel Marlowe (25 Edwin H Land Blvd)
Porter Square Books Women's History Month celebration
with Victoria Abbott Riccardi and Miriam Weinstein

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Marlon James, The Book of Night Women: A Novel


Thursday, March 5

6:00 pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
Mona Lena Krook, Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd, Is That Your Child?

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection

7:00 pm, First Parish Church, $5
Jacqueline Winspear, Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Sunday, March 8

1:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Knit One, Read Too


Monday, March 9

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
Matt McCarthy, Odd Man Out


Tuesday, March 10

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Frank Shirley, New Rooms for Old Houses

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Thomas Hummel, Point and Line to Plane
Eric Amling, Split Level Igloo

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life


Wednesday, March 11

6:00 pm, MJ O'Connors (27 Columbus Avenue)
Bookbuilders of Boston casual networking event

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Conjuring Up Annie Sullivan, Mary Dyer, and Nancy Drew in Poetry
In conjunction with the National Writer's Union for Women's History Month
with Denise Bergman, Helen Marie Casey, Kathleen Aguero

*7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Stacy Horn, Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, Clairvoyance, and Other Phenomena of the Unseen World

*7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Adam Bradley, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop

7:30 pm, First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum
Dr. Tess Gerritsen, "Writing and Doctoring"


Thursday, March 12

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Jacqueline Olds, M.D., and Richard Schwartz, M.D., The Lonely American

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Jonathon Keats, The Book of the Unknown

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Richard Dowden, Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles


Friday, March 13

6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

Monday, March 16

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books with the Pierre Menard Gallery
Heads and Tales with Heide Hatry, Francine Miller, Diana George, and Thryza Goodeve

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Joshua Kendall, The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

7pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
Patrick Tracey, Stalking Irish Madness


Tuesday, March 17

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
*Jedediah Purdy, A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom


Wednesday, March 18

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Neal Bascomb, Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Jan Elizabeth Watson, Asta in the Wings

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
William Lobdell, Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace

7:30 pm, First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum
*Rashid Khalidi, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Hegemony in the Middle East


Thursday, March 19

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Peter Canellos, Last Lion: The Rise and Fall of Ted Kennedy
with Globe reporters

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
William Julius Wilson, More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

7:30 pm, Concord Free Public Library
Charles Capper, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life--Volume II: The Public Years

Friday, March 20

3:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
Preston Keat, The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing


Tuesday, March 24

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Jesse Ball, The Way Through Doors

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Dave Zeltserman, Small Crimes

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
Jeffrey Fleishman, Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad


Wednesday, March 25

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Natalie Goldberg, Old Friend from Far Away

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop, 3rd level
David Block, Shrouds of the Night: Masks of the Milky Way and the Awesome New View of Galaxies


Thursday, March 26

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Brendan Halpin, I Can See Clearly Now


Friday, March 27

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Breakwater Reading Series with UMass Boston and Emerson MFA students


Tuesday, March 31

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Nafisa Haji, The Writing on My Forehead

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Linda Olsson, Sonata For Miriam

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Dr. Elaine Showalter, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

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