Book It: September Book Events

Thursday, September 10

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Nick McDonell, An Expensive Education: A Novel

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
James Wood, How Fiction Works

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Clea Simon, Shades of Grey
Hank Phillippi Ryan, Air Time

Saturday, September 12

The Second Annual Bookish Ball, Harvard Square
Bookstore Stroll from 1:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Music, Dancing, Remarks and Cake 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

3:00 pm, Harvard Coop
David Updike, Old Girlfriends

4:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
*Werner Sollors, A New Literary History of America

4:30 pm, Harvard Coop
Mo Lotman, Harvard Square

Sunday, September 13

2:00 pm, Harvard Coop
Michael Ruebens, The Sheriff of Yrnameer

Monday, September 14

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Susan Barry, Fixing My Gaze

Tuesday, September 15

7:00 pm, Club Passim, Harvard Square
*Mo Lotman, Harvard Square

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Clea Simon and Hank Phillippi Ryan, Shades of Grey and Air Time

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Katherine Bell, Quilting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time

7:30 pm, Harvard Coop
Michael Shinagel, PhD, "The Gates Unbarred"

Wednesday, September 16

11:00 am, Porter Square Books
Timothy Basil Ering, Finn Throws a Fit

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Chris Mooney, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

7:00 pm, First Parish Church, $5
Harvey Cox, The Future of Faith: The Rise and Fall of Belief and the Coming Age of the Spirit

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Samuel Ligon, Drift and Swerve
Blake Butler, Scorch Atlas
Robert Lopez, Kamby Bolongo Mean River

Thursday, September 17

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Jesse Sheidlower, The F-Word

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Sebastian Stuart, The Hour Between

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel

7:30 pm, Harvard Coop
Janet Soares, Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance

Friday, September 18

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop
Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Hanan al-Shaykh, The Locust and the Bird

Monday, September 21

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist: A Novel

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Joyce Maynard, Labor Day

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Vincent McCaffrey, Hound

Tuesday, September 22

6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop
Carolyn Rubenstein, Perseverance: True Voices of Cancer Survivors

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Deborah Cramer, Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Anita Shreve, A Change in Altitude

Wednesday, September 23

6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre, $5
James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop
Sebastian Stuart, The Hour Between

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Evening of Poetry with Frannie Lindsay and Sabra Loomis

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Elise Lemire, Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts

Thursday, September 24

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Harvey A. Silverglate, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop
Johnny Diaz, Beantown Cubans.

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Sherrie Flick and Ladette Randolph, Reconsidering Happiness and A Sandhills Ballad

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Ellen Graf, The Natural Laws of Good Luck: The Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage

Friday, September 25

3:00 pm, Harvard Book Store (Friday Forum)
Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business

Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26

Harvard University’s Barker Center for the Humanities (12 Quincy St, Cambridge)
*Writing Cultural History Today: A Symposium on the Publication of A New Literary History of America

Tuesday, September 29

10:00 am, Porter Square Books
Shannon Hale, Forest Born

7:00 pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse, $28
*E. L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley: A Novel

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop
Andrea Batista Schlesinger,The Death of Why?

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Nancy Kehoe, Wrestling with Our Inner Angels

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Franz Wright - The Wheeling Motel

Wednesday, September 30

6:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5
Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Tad Friend, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor

7:00 pm, Harvard Coop
Matthew M. Chingos, Crossing the Finish Line,

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Deborah Tannen, You Were Always Mom's Favorite

Locations: Brookline Booksmith, Harvard Book Store (sponsoring Brattle and First Parish Church events), Harvard Coop, Porter Square Books (which has an exciting new events page!)