Book It: April Book Events

Monday, April 6

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

Tuesday, April 7

7:00 pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $5
*Robert Pinsky's Recitation Celebration
Luminaries from Various Walks of Life Read Poetry Aloud
Sponsored by Harvard Book Store

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Women's National Book Association Reading with Joan Gelfand and Ann Harleman

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Dr. Nick Trout, Tell Me Where It Hurts
This event has been canceled

Wednesday, April 8

6:00 pm, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library
Harlan Coben, Long Lost with Missy Higgins

Thursday, April 9

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
James Carroll, Practicing Catholic

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
*Matthew Pearl, The Last Dickens

Friday, April 10

6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
Sponsored by Harvard Book Store

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

8:00 pm, Memorial Church, SOLD OUT
Cambridge Forum
Joss Whedon receives the Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism
Sponsored by Harvard Book Store

Saturday, April 11

8:00 PM, Pierre Menard Gallery (10 Arrow Street, Cambridge)
Deep Moat Reading Series with Heather Christle, Matthew Klane, and Claire Donato

Monday, April 13

6:00 pm, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library
Jane Hamilton, Laura Rider’s Masterpiece

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books

Kevin Phillips, Bad Money
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
*Jay McInerney, How It Ended

Tuesday, April 14

6:00 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5
*Jim Lehrer, Oh, Johnny
Hosted by Brookline Booksmith

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Jane Hamilton, Laura Rider's Masterpiece

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
*Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories

Wednesday, April 15

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
An Evening of Poetry with Faye George and Kate McCann

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
George Scialabba, What Are Intellectuals Good For? Selected Essays
in conversation with essayist John H. Summers

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Jon Ginoli, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division

7:30 pm, Harvard Book Store, Lower Level
The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store
"Conservatism: Relic or Relevant?"

Thursday, April 16

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Bernd Heinrich, Summer World

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
*Gary Marcus, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

7:30 pm, First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum
Princeton's Susan Stewart discusses "Poetry and Perception"
Sponsored by Harvard Book Store

Friday, April 17

3:00 pm, Harvard Book Store

Friday Forum
MIT's Loren Graham
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity

Saturday, April 18

7 pm, Concord Free Public Library
Adam Zagajewski, Eternal Enemies

Monday, April 20

6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Slavoj Zizek, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
Sponsored by Harvard Book Store

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Maria Laurino, Old World Mother, New World Daughter

Tuesday, April 21

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Arthur Phillips, The Song Is You: A Novel

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death In Varanasi

Wednesday, April 22

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Jeffrey Thomson and Jeff Harrison, Birdwatching in Wartime and Incomplete Knowledge

Thursday, April 23

6:00 pm, Abbey Room, Boston Public Library
Massachusetts Author Panel with Lynne Griffin, Brendan Halpin and Mary McGarry Morris

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
*Dan Tobin and Christine Casson, Second Things and After the First World

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Reza Aslan, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Chesa Boudin, Gringo

Friday, April 24

3:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
Raymond Arsenault, The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Alva Noe, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

Saturday, April 25 through Sunday, April 26

The Muse and the Marketplace, Park Plaza Hotel (50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street)
Sponsored by Grub Street

What better way for you, a starving artist, to spend $320 than on a weekend of schmoozing with fellow writers, literary agents, publishers, and other folks guaranteed to help your book make it on a bestseller list? If this event can't make you a success, maybe you should just quit trying.

Monday, April 27

6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Maria Tatar, Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
in conversation with Homi K. Bhabha
Sponsored by Harvard Book Store

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
*David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Vestal McIntyre, Lake Overturn

Tuesday, April 28

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
*Daniel Wolff, How Lincoln Learned to Read

Wednesday, April 29

6:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
16th Annual Brookline High School Poetry Festival Featuring Tim Seibles

7:30 pm, First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum
T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sponsored by Harvard Book Store

Thursday, April 30

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Christopher Miller, The Cardboard Universe

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Barbara Moran, The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History

7:30 pm, Concord Free Public Library
Jay Vogt, Recharge Your Team: The Grounded Visioning Approach