Book It: Book Events May 10–16

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