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November's not quite as packed with book events as October was, but some big names are still coming to town. The list includes Al Gore and David Plouffe, as well as Jonathan Safran Foer, Cory Doctorow (of BoingBoing) and John Krasinksi, who's adapted David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men for the screen. Harvard Book Store is also hosting a special sale for "frequent buyers," though you must sign up for the club before November 8 to qualify. Check the list to see what your favorite events might be this month.
Monday, November 2
6:00 p.m., Rabb Lecture Hall, Central Library
All About Altman with Mitch Zuckoff
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
John Grogan, The Longest Trip Home
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Danuta Borchardt, translator of Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornografia
Tuesday, November 3
6:30 p.m., Rabb Lecture Hall, Central Library
Sean Deveney, The Original Curse.
7:00 pm, Regattabar (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
*Ben Ratliff, The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (Read Bostonist's interview with Ratliff)
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Ethan Gilsdorf, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
Wednesday, November 4
6:00 p.m., Orientation Room, Central Library
Local Storytelling with Mary E. Mitchell & David Updike
6:30 pm, First Parish Church (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
Cambridge Forum
D. D. Guttenplan, American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Toby Lester, The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Thomas Graboys, Life in the Balance
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
An Evening of Poetry with E.B. Moore and Christine Tierney
Thursday, November 5
7:00 pm, Harvard Hillel, Smith Hall (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
Michael Goldfarb, Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Nancy Rappaport, In Her Wake
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Mary Karr, Lit
Friday, November 6
3:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
Rana Husseini, Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime
6:30 p.m. to Midnight, Central Library, Copley Square
An Evening to Celebrate the Library
Enjoy a festive evening to benefit the Boston Public Library, hosted by the BPL Foundation. Marvel at COOL + Collected Treasures of the BPL during a reception in Deferrari Hall. Dine and dance in the National Historic Landmark McKim Building.
Saturday, November 7
1:00 pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $30 (includes a copy of Our Choice)
Al Gore, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis
4pm, Brookline Booksmith
John Krasinski, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film)
Sunday, November 8
All day: Harvard Book Store’s annual frequent buyer sale. Customers who have signed up for a Frequent Buyer Card BEFORE November 8th will be eligible to receive 20% off all purchases of new, used and bargain books, as well as data-based Print on Demand titles and non-book items throughout the store.
Monday, November 9
12:00 pm, UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3550 (Ballroom C)
Jhumpa Lahiri reads from her work, which includes the 2000 Pulitzer Prize–winning Interpreter of Maladies, as well as The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth
6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Lidia Bastianich, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
Judith Jones, The Pleasures of Cooking for One
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Michael Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Tuesday, November 10
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Tariq Ali, The Idea of Communism
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Sebastian Stuart, The Hour Between
Jonathan Strong, Drawn from Life
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Dorothy Lamb Crawford, A Windfall of Musicians
Wednesday, November 11
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
November Winedown, Booksellers' Favorite Cookbooks
7:30pm, Brookline Booksmith sponsored reading at Congregation Kehillath Israel, $5
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
Thursday, November 12
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Christopher Ives - Imperial-Way Zen
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
John Connolly, The Gates
7:30 pm, Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Colored People: A Memoir
7 pm, Room 101 of Boston University’s School of Communication building, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, $5
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Russian-language reading
Friday, November 13
3:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
Robert Strassler, Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika
6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Elizabeth Benedict, Mentors, Muses & Monsters: Thirty Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives
with Chris Castellani, Margot Livesey, Jay Cantor, Julia Glass, and Jim Shepard
7:00 pm, Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Harvard Square
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Reading and reception
New England Crime Bake
Annual mystery writers’ and readers’ conference takes place all weekend in Dedham. Sold out.
Saturday, November 14
9:30 AM, First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum
The Road to Copenhagen: A Mini Conference on Global Climate Change
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Aimee Bender, The Third Elevator (a reading for Madras Press)
Sunday, November 15
10am, Brookline Booksmith
Bagel Brunch and Book Talk with
Noah Alper, Business Mensch: Timeless Wisdom For Today's Entrepreneur
Monday, November 16
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
*Cory Doctorow, Makers
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Steve Buckley, A Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports
Tuesday, November 17
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Maxim D. Shrayer, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Anita Silvey, Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Dave Zeltserman, Pariah
Wednesday, November 18
7:00 pm, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
David Plouffe, The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons from Barack Obama's Historic Victory
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Marianne Taylor, The Book of Cool
7:30 pm, Harvard Book Store, Lower Level
The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store
Irreplaceable You? The Puzzle of Personal Identity
Thursday, November 19
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Hallie Ephron, Katherine Hall Page, and Hank Phillippi Ryan
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
James Schwartz, In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
Friday, November 20
3:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
James Schwartz, In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
Saturday, November 21
1:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Sheryl Julian, The New Boston Globe Cookbook
Monday, November 23
7:00 pm, Harvard Hillel (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
Elisa New, Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore
7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
John Buntin, L.A. Noir
7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Maryalice Huggins, Aesop's Mirror
Tuesday, November 24
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Kristin Cashore, Fire
Monday, November 30
7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
The Harvard Square Book Circle will discuss A.B. Yehoshua's masterwork, Mr. Mani
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