Bookings: Greater Boston author readings Nov. 2-8




SUNDAY

Michael M. Greenburg (“The Court-Martial of Paul Revere”) reads at 1 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough … Ann Hood (“An Italian Wife”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Anjali Mitter Duva (“Faint Promise of Rain”) reads at 3 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Hiawatha Bray (“You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset

MONDAY

Frank Warren (“The World of PostSecret”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Darryl Pinckney (“Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Lizzie Stark (“Pandora’s DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family’s DNA”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

TUESDAY

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Jim Vrabel (“A People’s History of the New Boston”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Branch Library, 685 Tremont St., Boston … Steven Pinker (“The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st) and Susan Pinker (“The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Karl Kirchwey (“Mount Lebanon”), Cynthia Huntington (“Heavenly Bodies”), Ilan Stavans (“Spanglish”), and Selena Anderson read at 7 p.m. at Boston Playwright’s Theater, 949 Commonwealth Ave. … Anthony Flint (“Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Bill Littlefield (“Take Me Out”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Carla Naumburg (“Parenting in the Present Moment”) and Jennifer Senior (“All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood”) read at 7:30 p.m. at Leventhal-Sidman JCC, 333 Nahanton St., Newton

WEDNESDAY

James Redfearn (“The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston … Raúl the Third (“Lowriders in Space”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … John Connolly (“Wolf in Winter”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Jabberwocky Bookshop, at the Tannery, 50 Water St., Newburyport … Julie Reynolds (“Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California’s Nuestra Familia Gang”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Brock Clarke (“The Happiest People in the World”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

THURSDAY

Phyllis Bronson (“Moods, Emotions and Aging: Hormones and the Mind-Body Connection”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Bob Ryan (“Scribe: My Life in Sports”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley ($5 ticket may be used toward book, at http://wellesley.indiebound.com/event/bob-ryan) … Cammy Thomas (“Inscriptions”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord… Heather Cox Richardson (“To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party”) reads at 7 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Thomas Maier (“When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Alexander McCall Smith (“The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Café”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

FRIDAY


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John Cleese (“So. Anyway…”) in conversation with Robin Young at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, ($60 ticket includes book, available at Brookline Booksmith or http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/john-cleese-ticket) … Matt Bai (“All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Nancy Kricorian (“All the Light There Was”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Dan Mazur and Alexander Danner (“Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present”) read at 7 p.m. at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., Waltham … Kevin Pilington (“Summer Shares”), Kelly DuMar (“All These Cures”), and Erica Ferencik (“Repeaters”) read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Art Gallery, 541 Mass. Ave., Cambridge

SATURDAY

Amy Traverso (“Yankee Magazine’s Lost and Vintage Recipes”) reads at 1 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Karen Armstrong (“Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence”) reads at 4 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ($5 ticket at http://www.harvard.com/event/karen_armstrong/)Anne Litwin (“New Rules for Women: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books

Events are subject to change. A full listing of events is available online at www.bostonglobe. com/arts/books.

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