
Local Readings and Events
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader at East End Books Boston. Find more information here.
Live Poetry: Raisa Tolchinsky
Live Poetry: Raisa Tolchinsky at Lovestruck Books. Find more information here.
JUST BE(LOVED) Poetry Slam & Open Mic
JUST BE(LOVED) Poetry Slam & Open Mic at justBook-ish. Find more information here.
Vinh Nguyen
Vinh Nguyen discusses The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Heather Christle
Heather Christle discusses In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Jane Sutton
Jane Sutton discusses Zayde Babysits Before Passover and Paulie’s Passover Predicament at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Finding Joy/Surviving Hate: Nico Lang with Asa Sevelius
Finding Joy/Surviving Hate: Nico Lang with Asa Sevelius at First Parish in Brookline. Find more information here.
Phaea Crede
Phaea Crede discusses Oh Deer! at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.
IAWA Open Mic
IAWA Open Mic featuring Allison Adair and Peter Covino, at I AM Books. Find more information here.
April Breakfast Club
April Breakfast Club discusses Murder in the Dressing Room by Holly Stars at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Ruth Chad
Ruth Chad discusses In the Absence of Birds at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club
Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Midnight Release Party: Emily Henry's Great Big Beautiful Life
Midnight Release Party: Emily Henry's Great Big Beautiful Life at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.
Release Party: Great Big Beautiful Life
Release Party: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry at Beacon Hill Books and Café. Find more information here.
Breakfast Release: Emily Henry
Breakfast Release: Emily Henry at All She Wrote Books. Find more information here.
Betty's Lunchtime Book Group
Betty's Lunchtime Book Group discusses The Morningside by Tea Obreht at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Zeba McGibbon
Zeba McGibbon discusses Trixie the Thoughtful Turtle and Felipe the Feeling Frog at Beacon Hill Books and Café. Find more information here.
Great Big Beautiful Life Release Party
Great Big Beautiful Life Release Party at Lovestruck Books. Find more information here.
Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi discusses Fierce Elegy at Woodberry Poetry Room. Find more information here.
Brittany N. Williams
Brittany N. Williams discusses Iron Tongue of Midnight at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura discusses Intimacies, in conversation with Claire Messud, at Mahindra Humanities Center. Find more information here.
Launch Party! Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Launch Party! Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
The Moth: StorySLAM – ALL NIGHTER
The Moth: StorySLAM – ALL NIGHTER at Arts at the Armory. Find more information here.
Side Quest Book Club
Side Quest Book Club discusses Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth at Side Quest Books & Games. Find more information here.
Cameron Russell
Cameron Russell discusses How To Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone, in conversation with Elizabeth Segran, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Great, Big, Beautiful Life Launch Party
Great, Big, Beautiful Life Launch Party at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Julian Borger
Julian Borger discusses I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Shannon Hogan
Shannon Hogan discusses The Unforgiving Hours: The Grit, Resilience, and Perseverance at the Heart of Endurance Sports at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman discusses The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity at East End Books Boston. Find more information here.
Deborah Parker
Deborah Parker discusses Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
Judith Butler
Judith Butler discusses Who's Afraid of Gender?, in conversation with Doris Sommer, at Brattle Theatre. Find more information here.
Bill's Book Group for Guys
Bill's Book Group for Guys discusses Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Saumya Dave
Saumya Dave discusses The Guilt Pill at Boston Public Library: South End. Find more information here.
An Evening with Black Seed Writers: OUT HERE 8
An Evening with Black Seed Writers: OUT HERE 8 at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Martín Espada
Martín Espada discusses Jailbreak of Sparrows at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Cristina Rathbone
Cristina Rathbone discusses The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Anne Berest
Anne Berest discusses “Family Fictions: The Postcard, Gabriële, and Writing True Novels” at Boston College. Find more information here.
Brittainy Cherry
Brittainy Cherry discusses If You Stayed at Lovestruck Books. Find more information here.
Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner discusses The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits at GBH. Find more information here.
Boston Poetry Slam
Boston Poetry Slam, with Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah, at The Cantab Lounge. Find more information here.
Books and Vibes with Postmarked with Love
Books and Vibes with Postmarked with Love at JustBook-ish. Find more information here.
Show Up and Write
Show Up and Write at Panethnic Pourovers. Find more information here.
Reading Romance Boston - Book Club
Reading Romance Boston - Book Club at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Lori Lobenstine
Lori Lobenstine discusses The Barking Puppy at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Literature Junkies Book Club
Literature Junkies Book Club discusses Real Americans by Rachel Khong at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.
Gregg Hurwitz
Gregg Hurwitz discusses Nemesis at Cary Library. Find more information here.
Steven Duong
Steven Duong discusses At the End of the World There Is a Pond at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Megan Marshall
Megan Marshall discusses After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart, in conversation with Tom Perrotta, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Claire Berest and Anne Berest
Claire Berest and Anne Berest discuss Gabriële, in conversation with Sebastian Smee, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Fiction Book Club
Fiction Book Club at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Vincent Katz and Claire Millikin
Vincent Katz and Claire Millikin, with Benjamin Bellet, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic Night
Poetry Open Mic Night at Whitelam Books. Find more information here.
How Narrative Medium Impacts the Craft of Storytelling
How Narrative Medium Impacts the Craft of Storytelling, with Makana Yamamoto and Tara Tai, at Panethnic Pourovers. Find more information here.
Boston Comics in Color Festival
Boston Comics in Color Festival at Roxbury Community College. Find more information here.
Newburyport Literary Festival
Newburyport Literary Festival. Find more information here.
Di-a-logue: Book Circle
Di-a-logue: Book Circle discusses James by Percival Everett at justBook-ish. Find more information here.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall discusses A Protest History of the United States, in conversation with Judith LeBlanc, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
House House Magazine Debut Issue Launch
House House Magazine Debut Issue Launch, with Hengzhi Huang Yang, Chloe Garcia Roberts, Frank Liu, Alex Braslavsky, Madeleine Scott, Max Fan, Kyra Mo, and more, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Lynda Mullaly Hunt discusses Wish on a Tree at Blue Bunny Books. Find more information here.
Ellen Wilbur
Ellen Wilbur discusses Listening and Speaking: New and Selected Stories at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Newburyport Literary Festival
Newburyport Literary Festival. Find more information here.
Boston Comics in Color Festival
Boston Comics in Color Festival at Roxbury Community College. Find more information here.
Jamie Michalak and Phaea Crede
Jamie Michalak discusses Hazel the Handful and Phaea Crede discusses Oh Deer! at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Carrie Finison
Carrie Finison discusses Pigs Dig a Road at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.
Bookworm Quincy: Local Author Showcase
Bookworm Quincy: Local Author Showcase at Dorchester Brewing Company. Find more information here.
Brianna Craft
Brianna Craft discusses We Don't Have Time for This at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up
Read My Lips Boston Pop-Up at Idle Hands Craft Ales. Find more information here.
Lori Lobenstine
Lori Lobenstine discusses The Barking Puppy at Beacon Hill Books and Café. Find more information here.
Refrain Litteraire Bookclub
Refrain Litteraire Bookclub discusses Village Weavers by Myriam J.A. Chancy at Boston Public Library: Grove Hall. Find more information here.
Stephen Puleo
Stephen Puleo discusses The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union at the West End Museum. Find more information here.
Great Bookseller Bake-Off 2025
Great Bookseller Bake-Off 2025 at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Newburyport Literary Festival
Newburyport Literary Festival. Find more information here.
Molly Williams
Molly Williams discusses The Junior Plant Lover's Handbook: A Green-Thumb Guide for Kids at Book Ends Winchester. Find more information here.
Christopher Willard
Christopher Willard discusses Feelings Are Like Farts at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Karen Belanger-Richmond
Karen Belanger-Richmond discusses Clara’s Curiosity & Her Foxy Friends at Hummingbird Books. Find more information here.
Guna's Book Club
Guna's Book Club discusses Yellowface by R. F. Kuang at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
Shoshana Meira Friedman
Shoshana Meira Friedman discusses The Tide Is Rising, So Are We!: A Climate Movement Anthem at The Substation. Find more information here.
Brandon L. Garrett
Brandon L. Garrett discusses Defending Due Process: Why Fairness Matters in a Polarized World, in conversation with Matt Segal, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Poetry Open Mic
Poetry Open Mic at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Adam Becker
Adam Becker discusses More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, in conversation with Jacob Barandes, at Harvard Science Center. Find more information here.
Silent Book Club & Write Night
Silent Book Club & Write Night at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Cambridge Edition Book Club
Cambridge Edition Book Club at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Priya Vulchi
Priya Vulchi discusses Good Friends: Bonds That Change Us and the World, in conversation with Imani Perry, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Blacksmith House Poetry Series
Blacksmith House Poetry Series, with John Koethe and Kevin McLellan, at CCAE. Find more information here.
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman discusses Archivist Scissors at Woodberry Poetry Room. Find more information here.
Paul Willis
Paul Willis discusses Hip Hop Leadership at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Have You Read This? Book Club
Have You Read This? Book Club discusses The New Atlantis Three Novellas by Ursula Leguin, Gene Wolfe, and James Tiptree Jr. at Pandemonium Books and Games. Find more information here.
Tucker Shaw and F.T. Lukens
Tucker Shaw discusses Right Beside You and F.T. Lukens discusses Love at Second Sight at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Kylie Lee Baker
Kylie Lee Baker discusses Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, in conversation with Paul Tremblay, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Side Quest Book Club
Side Quest Book Club discusses T. Kingfisher's Swordheart,at Side Quest Books & Games. Find more information here.
Jacqueline Davies
Jacqueline Davies discusses The Lemonade War Graphic Novel, in conversation with Ellen T. Crenshaw, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Annie Hartnett
Annie Hartnett discusses The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel at Newtonville Books. Find more information here.
C.W. Farnsworth
C.W. Farnsworth discusses First Flight, Final Fall, in conversation with Monica Murphy, at Lovestruck Books. Find more information here.
Kate O'Donnell and Cara Brostrom
Kate O'Donnell and Cara Brostrom discuss Everyday Ayurveda at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Enzo Silon Surin and January O'Neil
Enzo Silon Surin discusses American Scapegoat and January O'Neil discusses Glitter Road at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
A Night at The Eldorado
A Night at The Eldorado: In celebration of Milo Todd’s debut novel The Lilac People at Crystal Ballroom. Find more information here.
Richard Kopley
Richard Kopley discusses Edgar Allan Poe: A Life at Burns Library, Boston College. Find more information here.
Hannah Selinger
Hannah Selinger discusses Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly at Boston Public Library: Copley Square. Find more information here.
Shelby Van Pelt
Shelby Van Pelt discusses Remarkably Bright Creatures, in conversation with Emily Habeck, at Coolidge Corner Theatre. Find more information here.
Claire Hoffman
Claire Hoffman discusses Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, in conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Elissa Altman
Elissa Altman discusses Permission, in conversation with Laura Zigman, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Sophie Cabot Black and Elise Paschen
Sophie Cabot Black and Elise Paschen, with Askold Melnyczuk, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
The Banditry's April Pick
The Banditry's April Pick discusses Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at Papercuts Bookshop. Find more information here.
Nicole Graev Lipson
Nicole Graev Lipson discusses Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays, in conversation with Alden Jones and Cicely Carew, at Wellesley Books. Find more information here.
Boston Poetry Slam
Boston Poetry Slam: Fresh Ink Slam at The Cantab Lounge. Find more information here.
A Night of Poetry
A Night of Poetry discusses Rachel Trousdale, Catherine Rockwood, Luba Ostashevsky, and Jennifer Lewin at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Casey Sherman
Casey Sherman discusses Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy at The Next Chapter Books and More. Find more information here.
Third Thursdays Poetry with Tiana Clark and Porsha Olayiwola
Third Thursdays Poetry, with Tiana Clark and Porsha Olayiwola, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
Rozzie Reads Poetry
Rozzie Reads Poetry, with Mary Bonina and Mark Pawlak, at Roslindale House. Find more information here.
Nancy Kricorian
Nancy Kricorian discusses The Burning Heart of the World, in conversation with Lisa Gulesserian, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.
Cedric Maxwell
Cedric Maxwell discusses Banner Year: How Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Joe Mazzulla Led the Boston Celtics to a Record-Breaking Title, in conversation with Chad Finn, at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. Find more information here.
Romance Book Club
Romance Book Club discusses You Between the Lines by Katie Naymon at The Purple Couch Bookshop. Find more information here.
Book Club
Book Club discusses Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins at Trident Booksellers & Café. Find more information here.
Glyn Maxwell and Steven Ratiner
Glyn Maxwell and Steven Ratiner, with Meia Geddes, at Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Find more information here.
Jon King
Jon King discusses To Hell with Poverty!: A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four, in conversation with Jim Sullivan, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
The Publishing Journey: A Reading and Conversation
The Publishing Journey: A Reading and Conversation with Theresa Okokon at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Headliner Book Club
Headliner Book Club discusses Danez Smith's Bluff at Mass Poetry. Find more information here.
The Thursday Murder Book Club
The Thursday Murder Book Club discusses Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice at Parkside Bookshop. Find more information here.
The Publishing Journey: A Reading and Conversation with Theresa Okokon
The Publishing Journey: A Reading and Conversation with Theresa Okokon at Frugal Bookstore. Find more information here.
Third Thursday Poetry featuring Charles Coe
Third Thursday Poetry featuring Charles Coe at Ten Trees Books. Find more information here.
Silent Reading Party
Silent Reading Party at PSB: Boston Edition at Porter Square Books: Boston. Find more information here.
Alan Pell Crawford
Alan Pell Crawford discusses This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South at American Ancestors. Find more information here.
Nico Lang
Nico Lang discusses American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era at justBook-ish. Find more information here.
Neal Baer
Neal Baer discusses The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, in conversation with Rebecca Brendel, at Harvard Science Center. Find more information here.
Celebrating National Poetry Month
Celebrating National Poetry Month with Jonathan Galassi and Robert Perkins at Boston Athenæum. Find more information here.
826 Boston: Half Half Half Half Half Marathon
826 Boston: Half Half Half Half Half Marathon at Jamaica Pond. Find more information here.
Ekua Holmes and Autumn Allen
Ekua Holmes and Autumn Allen at MassArt. Find more information here.
Boston Poetry Slam
Boston Poetry Slam, with Sara Mae & Zenaida Peterson, at The Cantab Lounge. Find more information here.
Tao Leigh Goffe
Tao Leigh Goffe discusses Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, in conversation with Imani Perry, at Brookline Booksmith. Find more information here.
James Whitfield Thomson
James Whitfield Thomson discusses A Better Ending: A Brother's Twenty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister's Death, in conversation with Margot Livesey, at Belmont Books. Find more information here.
Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian discusses Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, in conversation with Katrina Forrester, at Harvard Book Store. Find more information here.
Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia
Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia discuss On Again, Awkward Again at O'Neil Cinemas. Find more information here.
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem discusses Cellophane Bricks at Porter Square Books: Cambridge. Find more information here.