Greater Boston author readings Nov. 10-15




SUNDAY

Barbara S. Carlson (“Fire Road”) and Elizabeth McKim (“The Read Thread”) read at noon at Plymouth Center for the Arts, 11 North St., Plymouth …Paul E. Fallon (“Architecture By Moonlight: Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life”) reads at 3 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester … Yoram Vodovotz and Gary An (“Translational Systems Biology”) read at 6 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Maureen Meister (“Arts and Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord

MONDAY

Juliette Fay (“The Shortest Way Home”) reads at 11 a.m. in the Assembly Room, Belmont Public Library, 336 Concord Ave., Belmont … Megan Amram (“Science…For Her!”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/megan_amram/) … Kate Flora (”Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Langley-Adams Library, 185 Main St., Groveland … Nicola Griffith (“Hild”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Charlie E. Cobb Jr. (“This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Amanda Palmer (“The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help”) reads at 11:30 p.m. at Porter Square Books

TUESDAY

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Etgar Keret and Benjamin Percy read at 4:30 p.m. at Wellesley College, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, 106 Central St., Wellesley … Ethan Zuckerman (“Digital Cosmopolitans: Why We Think the Internet Connects Us, Why It Doesn’t, and How to Rewire It”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Monika Lutz (“Now What? How a Gap Year of International Internships Prepared Me for College”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … David Shrayer-Petrov, Maxim D. Shrayer, Emilia Shrayer and others read and discuss (“Dinner With Stalin and Other Stories”) at 7 p.m. at Devlin Hall 101, Boston College, Chestnut Hill … Leon White (“Golf Course of Rhymes”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

WEDNESDAY

Emerson W. Baker (“A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Abbey Room, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St. … Ann Hood (“The Italian Wife”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Stellina Restaurant, 47 Main St., Watertown … Jack Miles and James Robson (“Norton Anthology of World Religions”) read at 6:30 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/of_daoist_flights_and_chinese_fantasies/) … Maureen Meister (“Arts and Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Peter Fallon (“Strong, My Love”) reads at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, Room 100, Boston College, Chestnut Hill … Masha Gessen (“The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin” and “Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot”) reads at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church Parish House, 3 Church St., Cambridge … Betsy Andrews (“Saveur: The New Classics Cookbook”) reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Nan Levinson (“War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Jonathan Soroff (“Crimes of Fashion”) reads at 7 p.m. at West on Centre, 1732 Centre St., West Roxbury ($45 ticket includes wine reception and dinner, at http://www.eventbrite.com/o/readboston-4853024023)Dick Lehr (“The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books

THURSDAY

Richard Ford (“Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/richard_ford/)Ariadne Rossl (“Goddess Liberated: Feminine Love Empowerment in a Post-Patriarchal World”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 12 Sedgwick St., Jamaica Plain … Sarah Wildman (“Paper Love”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Bob Ryan (“Scribe: My Life in Sports”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … William Gibson (“The Peripheral”) reads at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church, 1446 Mass. Ave., Cambridge ($5 tickets at http://www.portersquarebooks.com/ticket-william-gibson-peripheral)Edith Pattou (“Ghosting”) and Ammi-Joan Paquette (“Paradox”) read at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Alessio Fasano (“Gluten Freedom: The Nation’s Leading Expert Offers the Essential Guide to a Healthy, Gluten-Free Lifestyle”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Kate Flora (”Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice”) reads at 7 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Arthur I. Miller (“Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Brenda Dater (“Parenting without Panic: A Pocket Support Group for Parents of Children and Teens on the Autism Spectrum”) reads at 7:30 p.m. at Leventhal-Sidman JCC, 333 Nahanton St., Newton

FRIDAY


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Paul E. Fallon (“Architecture by Moonlight: Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life”) reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Robert Brustein (“Winter Passages: Reflections on Theatre and Society”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge ($5 tickets at http://www.harvard.com/event/robert_brustein/) … Christina Stevens (“Love: The Saint and the Seeker”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Thomas McNeely (“Ghost Horse”) and Annie Weatherwax (“All We Had”) read at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store

SATURDAY

Ann Hood (“Italian Wife”) and Christopher Castellani (“All This Talk of Love”) read at noon at Mirbeau Inn and Spa at The Pinehills, 35 Landmark Drive, Plymouth ($65 ticket includes luncheon, resrverations required, call Westwinds Bookshop at 781-934-2128) … Erika DeSimone (“Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century”) reads at 2 p.m. at the Grove Hall Branch of the BPL, 41 Geneva Ave., Boston … Len Germinara (“Everything’s Jake”) and Derek J. G. Williams read at 2 p.m. at the Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak St., Brockton … Gina Fava (“The Race”) reads at 3 p.m. at Westwinds Bookshop, 35 Depot St., Duxbury … Grady Hendrix (“Horrorstor”) reads at 3 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Garth Stein (“A Sudden Light”) 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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