We did a wee bit of slacking with regard to getting the book events out this month, but it's cool—there are still a ton of amazing events going on. And keep an eye out for more coverage of the Boston Book Festival coming up on October 24.
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM, First Parish Church (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Nicholas Christakis, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Tuesday, October 13
6pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre (sponsored by Brookline Booksmith), $5 (sold out)
Alton Brown, Good Eats: The Early Years
Gwen Romagnoli, The Bicycle Runner
Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
John Freeman, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox
7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
Wednesday, October 14
6:30 PM, First Parish Church (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
*Cambridge Forum: Patrick J. Carr, Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Lucy Honig, Waiting for Rescue, Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Anthony Rao, The Way of Boys
Thursday, October 15
6:00 PM, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
*Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America
Andrew Pessin, The 60-Second Philosopher, Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Charles London, Far from Zion
Friday, October 16
7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
Nancy Rappaport, In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide
Saturday, October 17
4:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
*Stuart Weisberg, Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman
7pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mike Farrell, Of Mule and Man
Sunday, October 18
Book Club, Porter Square Books, 11:00 am
The Porter Square Books Book Club will be discussing Half a Yellow Sun
Monday, October 19
Book Club, Porter Square Books, 4:00 pm
The Porter Square Books Book Club will be discussing Half a Yellow Sun.
7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
Irene Khan, The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
Workshop for Publishing Poets, Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
With Robin Pelzman, Matthew Sisson, Suellen Wedmore.
Tuesday, October 20
Ivy Pochoda, The Art of Disappearing, Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
7:00 PM, The Enormous Room (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past
7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
October Winedown with Edwin Frank of New York Review of Books
Wednesday, October 21
4:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
A Celebration of Princeton Authors
6:30 PM, First Parish Church (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
Cambridge Forum: Paul Muldoon, Plan B, and Elizabeth Swados, The One and Only Human Galaxy
7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
James Orbinski, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century
7:30 at Brookline Booksmith (sold out)
Howard Dean, Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Health Care Reform
Thursday, October 22
4:00 PM, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
*Peter Singer and Richard Stearns discuss the fight against global poverty.
6pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5 (sponsored by Brookline Booksmith)
Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City
7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
Christopher Germer, The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
Friday, October 23
3:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
*Friday Forum: Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
Saturday, October 24
Boston Book Festival
All day, various locations
Sunday, October 25
Webcast of Kate DiCamillo reading The Magician’s Elephant, Porter Square Books, 4:00 pm
Submit questions to webcast@candlewick.com.
7:00 PM, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $25
*Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
Monday, October 26
6:00 PM, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
*Sherman Alexie, War Dances
Rawi Hage, Cockroach, Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
Tuesday, October 27
6pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5 (sponsored by Brookline Booksmith)
*John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
Liza Ketchum, Newsgirl, Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
The Harvard Square Book Circle will discuss Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s memoir Colored People
Wednesday, October 28
7:30 PM, Harvard Book Store, Lower Level
The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store asks about With Housing and Health Care For All: Should We Adopt an Economic Bill of Rights?
6:00 PM, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Christos Papadimitriou, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Thursday, October 29
6:00 PM, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
*Harriet Reisen, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
6pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, $5 (sponsored by Brookline Booksmith)
Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Michael Downing, Life With Sudden Death, Porter Square Books, 7:00 pm
8:00 PM, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Stephen Dubner, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and
Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Friday, October 30
3:00 PM, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum: Lisa Rosner, The Anatomy Murders
Halloween Story Hour, Porter Square Books, 4:00 pm
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