Book It: Book Events April 12–18

This week will be as full of book events as of leftover Easter candy. Everyone from Jay McInerney to Jim Lehrer is here, joined by Wells Tower (twice!) and even a couple of poets. Check out both known and new authors this week.

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