Book It: Book Events April 19–25

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.