Saturday, May 2
2:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose (of Postcards from Yo Momma), Love, Mom
Sunday, May 3
5:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Shana Burg (former teacher at Devotion School), A Thousand Never Evers
Monday, May 4
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Workshop for Publishing Poets
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Laila Lalami, Secret Son
Tuesday, May 5
6:00 pm, at Brattle Theatre (sold out, sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy with journalist David Wildman
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Elinor Lipman, The Family Man
7:00 pm, at Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall, $5
*Daniel Goleman, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
sponsored by Harvard Book Store
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
Wednesday, May 6
6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre, $5-60
Ruth Reichl, Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She
Taught Me Along the Way
6:00 pm, Hotel Marlowe (25 Edwin H Land Blvd., Cambridge)
Maxim Shrayer, sponsored by Porter Square Books
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Jeffrey Melnick, 9/11 Culture: America Under Construction
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture: A Novel
7:30 pm, at First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum with Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mary Gaitskill, Don’t Cry
Thursday, May 7
6:00 pm, at Brattle Theatre, $5
*Howard Zinn, A Young People's History of the United States
in conversation with Jimmy Tingle
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
*Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
Friday, May 8
3:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
Robert J. Shiller, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
Sunday, May 10
1:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Kristen Rengren, Vintage Baby Knits
Monday, May 11
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Selden Edwards, The Little Book
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Colm Toibin, Brooklyn
Tuesday, May 12
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Steve Kluger, My Most Excellent Year
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Eva Hoffman, Appassionata: A Novel
Wednesday, May 13
6:00 pm, MJ O'Connors (27 Columbus Ave)
Bookbuilders of Boston networking event
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Paul Harding, Tinkers
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
*Granta Launch Winedown
Granta launches its Summer 2009 issue with readings from featured authors Ha Jin and William Pierce
Thursday, May 14
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Joshua Halberstam, A Seat at the Table
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Shahriar Mandanipour with translator Sara Khalili
on Censoring an Iranian Love Story: A Novel
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Marshall Jon Fisher, A Terrible Splendor
Friday, May 15
3:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
Thomas Maier, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Aleksandar Hemon, Love and Obstacles: Stories
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mark Kurlansky, The Food of a Younger Land: The WPA's Portrait of Food in Pre-World War II America
Monday, May 18
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Phillip Lopate, Notes on Sontag
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Peter Abrahams, Reality Check
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith (Coolidge Corner Theatre)
Lee Woodruff, Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress
Tuesday, May 19
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Iain Pears, Stone's Fall: A Novel
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Daniel Asa Rose (O. Henry Prize winner), Larry’s Kidney: (Being the Story of) How I Found Myself in China With My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant, and Save His Life
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Lise Funderburg, Pig Candy
Wednesday, May 20
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Booksmith Basement Science presents Jeffrey Borenstein, Angels and Demons: The Science Revealed
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Malina Saval, The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens
Thursday, May 21
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Pat Lowery Collins and Kim Whitney, Hidden Voices and Other Half of Life
Sunday, May 24
3:00 pm, Concord Free Public Library
*Robert Cording, Erica Funkhouser, Jeffrey Harrison, Gray Jacobik, and Daniel Tobin, Poets Guide to the Birds (151 contemporary poems, edited by the Poet Laureate of the U.S.). Free, book signing follows.
Wednesday, May 27
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
Ellen J. Langer, Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Elinor Lipm, Brookline Booksmithan, The Family Man
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Teresa Cader and Fred Marchant, History of Hurricanes and The Looking House
Thursday, May 28
6:00 pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5
Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow
George Pelecanos, The Way Home (and, of course, HBO’s “The Wire”)
7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store
*Jose Luis Peixoto and Richard Zenith, The Implacable Order of Things
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Eric Bogosian, Perforated Heart
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