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It's the week of the Boston Book Festival, which will hit town on Saturday the 24th, bringing in big names like Orhan Pamuk and John Hogdman alongside lesser-known folks. Make sure to attend to get a new perspective on books in the 21st century. Bostonist will have interviews with Book Festival founder Deborah Porter and tech expert Nicholas Negroponte later this week. If you can't make it to the festival, at least check out one of the other literary events going on about town.

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, September 14 7:00 pm, Enormous Room Four Stories featuring Lisa Borders, Steven Brykman, Tim Horvath, and Sebastian Stuart 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism

Is this really it? The book events definitely dwindle as the (rainy, non-)summer drags on. Give us something literary to work with, people!

Adam Ried, Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes

Monday, June 1, 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Dr. Nick Trout, Tell me Where It Hurts Monday, June 1st 7:00 PM, Harvard Book Store *Rita Dove, Sonata Mulattica: Poems

Monday, May 18 7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store *Phillip Lopate, Notes on Sontag 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Peter Abrahams, Reality Check 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith (Coolidge Corner Theatre) Lee Woodruff, Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress

Monday, May 11 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Selden Edwards, The Little Book 7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store Colm Toibin, Brooklyn

Saturday, April 25 through Sunday, April 26 The Muse and the Marketplace, Park Plaza Hotel (50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street) Sponsored by Grub Street What better way for you, a starving artist, to spend $320 than on a weekend of schmoozing with fellow writers, literary agents, publishers, and other folks guaranteed to help your book make it on a bestseller list? If this event can't make you a success, maybe you should just quit trying.

ZOMG! Joss Whedon will be here on Friday! To win an award for cultural humanism! Uh, too bad it's sold out. Maybe you can stand outside straining to hear and hoping for a glimpse of Joss... or you could just wait for our writeup of the event. We might even liveblog it! We know you are holding your breath. We encourage you to breathe, and try some poetry with Robert Pinsky on Tuesday, or console yourself with Walter Mosley on Friday.

March brings us Women's History Month and a host of book events, some of them female-focused. From fine fiction to incisive historical analysis, the readings this month run the gamut. Big names are largely absent, but big ideas still abound.

Tuesday, February 24

This is one sexy week of books! Slime it up with Tucker Max tomorrow at the Back Bay Borders or learn how to combat the sexualization of children Thursday at Porter Square Books. The prudish among us can keep their minds on the economy by attending Robert G. Kaiser's Cambridge Forum on lobbying this Wednesday.

Frank Kramer: A Celebration

Four Stories with Andre Dubus III and Margot Livesey, plus young writers from Grub Street's YAWP Teen Writing Fellowship and Beacon Academy

Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge)

It's hot outside. Cool off your body and rev up your mind with a book reading this week. Superstar Andrew Dubus (III) will be here, and up-and-coming novelist Jonathan Miles will dis everyone's favorite hatred target: airlines. You can also learn about expensive wine and ponder why we all own so much stuff.

7pm tonight, Porter Square Books, free!

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