Boston brookline booksmith events events

Young Adult Literature Panel

Young Adult literature? Come to a panel discussion with Gina Damico (Croak, Scorch), A. C...

826 Benefit: Dead Authors

Brookline Booksmith teams up with 826 to bring literary legends back from the dead...

A Night of International Crime

Michael Reynolds (editor-in-chief, Europa Editions), Dennis Johnson (publisher and owner, Melville House), Jason Pinter (senior marketing manager, Grove/Atlantic) and more come to Brookline Booksmi...

Alina Simone - Note to Self

What's laid off thirtysomething Anna going to do now: write a book about late bloomers (nah; someone already did)? "Reposition her disposition," as suggested by her lifecoach friend? Or just loom i...

BASH Reading Series ft. Dan Chelotti

Bringing the freshest and finest voices to Boston.

Alysia Abbott - Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

After his wife’s death in 1973, poet and activist Steve Abbott comes out of the closet and moves to San Francisco with his three-year-old daughter, Alysia...

Lionel Shriver - Big Brother

When Pandora's brother-in-law comes to visit, she & her cycling-obsessed husband are taken aback. The once slim Edison has gained hundreds of pounds...

Maris Wicks - Primates

Primates tells the story of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas, three of the most renown scientists in the field of primate research and students of the great Louis Leakey...

Steve Schirripa - Big Daddy’s Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look

Actor Steve Schirripa (The Sopranos, The Secret Life of the American Teenager) is the proud father of two lovely daughters...

Dorothea Benton Frank - The Last Original Wife

Leslie Anne Greene Carter slips into a manhole on vacation...

Suzy Becker - One Good Egg

Suzy Becker (All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat) had it all—a successful career, savings, great friends—but no baby...

Kathleen Spivack - With Robert Lowell and His Circle

In an absorbing and evocative memoir, Kathleen Spivack tells of her time at Boston University studying under Robert Lowell, with classmates Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, and more...

Mark Cohen - Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman

In the summer of 1963, Allan Sherman’s “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” was the worldwide hit that marked the peak of Sherman’s fame...

Seasoned Voices Senior Poetry

Join an annual reading with poets from Brookline’s Seasoned Voices Poetry Workshop as they prove that verse gets better with age.

Zephyr Press Night

Brookline-based Zephyr Press, specializing in literary translation, presents Eleanor Goodman, reading her translations of Chinese poet Wang Xiaoni, J...