Boston literary arts events

Book Signing Soiree

Thursday, Jun 27 6:00p

An elegant cup of prose and haute hors d'oeuvres of verses... You are kindly invited to meet the author of "Message to My Butterfly," Gabriela Sbarcea, to share a thought and learn of others...

Ibbetson Street 33 Reading

Wednesday, Jun 26 6:30p

The Book Shop At Ball Square, Somerville

Ibbetson Street, a literary magazine founded on Ibbetson Street in Somerville in 1998, is having a release celebratory reading for Issue 33, as well as for their 15th year...

Joanne Chang - Flour, too

Saturday, Jul 13 2:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

One of the world's premier chefs Joanne Chang of Boston's Flour Bakery visits for the follow up to 2011's best selling Flour...

Kara Weiss - Late Lights

Monday, Jul 15 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

After Monty leaves juvenile detention, he turns to his childhood friends Erin &B.J. but they don't know how to reintegrate him back into their lives...

Kathleen Spivack - With Robert Lowell and His Circle

Saturday, Jun 29 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

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...

Barbara Perry - Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch

Tuesday, Jul 23 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Co-sponsored by the John F. Kennedy National Historic Site. Rose Kennedy set into motion a political dynasty...

The Round House a book discussion group

Monday, Jul 15 6:00p

Boston Public Library - East Boston Branch, Boston

Join to discuss The Round House by Louise Erdrich...

Lionel Shriver - Big Brother

Wednesday, Jun 19 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

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...

Steve Coll - Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

Wednesday, Jul 17 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Two-time Pulitzer winner Steve Coll comes to Brookline for the paperback release of his acclaimed Private Empire...

Alysia Abbott - Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

Thursday, Jun 27 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

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...

Suzy Becker - One Good Egg

Monday, Jun 24 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

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

Solstice Summer Reading Series

Friday, Jul 5 7:30p

Pine Manor College's Founder's Room, Brookline

Lita Judge (Red Hat, Red Sled, & Bird Talk); Nicole Terez Dutton (winner of the 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for If One of Us Should Fall); & Laura Williams McCaffrey (Water Shaper & Alia Waking) r...

Walking Tour of Edgar Allan Poe's Boston

Sunday, Jun 23 12:00p

Edgar Allan Poe Square, Boston

The tour explores Poe's connections to Boston, from his birth here in 1809 to his return in 1827 and his controversial appearance before the Boston Lyceum in 1845...

Reading and Discussion with Tony Cape

Thursday, Jun 20 7:00p

Trident Booksellers and Cafe, Boston

Diamond Highway is a candid account of the author’s ten years of household service to the Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. Join Tony Cape for a reading and discussion of the book.