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Vilna Shul - Boston's Center for Jewish Culture,
Boston
Boston literary arts events
Stories for Families Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, Jun 7
6:00p
The Vilna Shul welcomes the whole family for a special Kabbalat Shabbat with storyteller Cindy Rivka Marshall...
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.
Bill Thibodeau Book Launch and Reception
Tuesday, Jun 4
7:30p
Boston Center for the Arts,
Boston
Poet, speaker, and teacher Bill Thibodeau will celebrate the launch of his second book, "The Watchman," at the Calderwood Pavilion. Sam Cornish, Poet Laureate of Boston, will present opening remarks.
Meet the “Ordinary” People of Early Boston with Author Joanne Lloyd
Thursday, May 30
6:30p
Are you ever curious about the lives of the shop owners, tailors, writers, artists and the other "ordinary" people who helped make Boston the city that it is today?
The Vilna Shul and the Beaco...
Play Reading with the Vagabond Theatre Group
Thursday, May 23
7:00p
Trident Booksellers and Cafe,
Boston
Vagabond Theatre Group’s There Will Be Words is a new play reading series aimed at introducing original works. Following the reading, audience members will have the opportunity to discuss the script.
Neil Gaiman & Chip Kidd Discuss "Make Good Art"
Wednesday, Jun 5
6:30p
Oberon,
Cambridge
Presented by the Boston Book Festival...
Text and Context: Grubb Street Authors
Wednesday, May 22
7:00p
Arsenal Center for the Arts,
Watertown
Grubb Street Authors
Text + conText: Author Matthew Salesses
Wednesday, May 22
7:00p
Arsenal Center for the Arts,
Watertown
Join the conversation! Grub Street author Matthew Salesses
Originally from Watertown, Matthew Salesses is the author of the recently published novel in flash fiction I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Say...
Fierce Reads Author Tour
Saturday, Jun 15
2:00p
Cambridge Public Library,
Cambridge
A crack team of YA authors is coming to Cambridge Public Library's Teen Room...
Alina Simone - Note to Self
Monday, Jun 17
7:00p
Brookline Booksmith,
Brookline
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...
Carl Hiaasen - Bad Monkey
Wednesday, Jun 12
6:00p
Coolidge Corner Theatre,
Brookline
Andrew Yancy has a human arm in his freezer. Not only that, it is frozen in a crass gesture...
BASH Reading Series ft. Dan Chelotti
Friday, Jun 14
7:00p
Brookline Booksmith,
Brookline
Bringing the freshest and finest voices to Boston.
Dear Mr. Longfellow: letters to and from the children’s poet- A Talk by author Sydelle Pearl
Tuesday, Jun 4
6:00p
Join for a fascinating author talk by Sydelle Pearl to learn how she was inspired to write her unique biography, Dear Mr. Longfellow: letters to and from the children’s poet...
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...
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...
