Book It: Book Events November 8–14

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

7:00 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)