Book It: Book Events April 26–30

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