Notable Online: 7/5–7/11

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Monday 7/6: Stephanie Burt presents After Callimachus with Mark Payne. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3 suggested.

Charlotte Pence presents Code with John Skoyles and Gail Mazur. Brookline Booksmith via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Ian Svenonius presents The Psychic Soviet with Glen E. Friedman. Powerhouse Arena via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Traci Brimhall and Burgi Zenhaeusern join the Writer’s Center series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Wayne Koestenbaum presents Figure It Out with Maggie Nelson. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free with RSVP.

Hank Green and John Green discuss A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. The Strand via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, $32.

Leigh Stein presents Self Care with Chelsea Hodson. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Tuesday 7/7: Afia Atakora, Clare Beams, and Kirkland Hamill join host Brian Gresko for The Antibody reading series. YouTube and Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Sarah Gerard presents True Love with Patty Yumi Cottrell. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Blake Butler presents Alice Knott with Chelsea Hodson. Powerhouse Arena via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Alex Richards presents Accidental with Phil Stamper. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Rory Power presents Burn Our Bodies Down with Ashley Spivey. Brookline Booksmith via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Ideas Aubrey joins the Cobalt Poets reading series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Gail Caldwell presents Bright Precious Thing with Gloria Steinem. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3 suggested.

Curtis Sittenfeld presents Rodham and talks with Roxane Gay. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Hank Green presents A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor with John Green. YouTube, 6 p.m. CDT, free.

Meredith O’Brien and Leslie Gray Streeter join the Lockdown Lit at Lunch. Facebook, 11 a.m. PDT, free.

Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan discuss The Heir Affair. Vroman’s Bookstore via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. PDT, $34.

Brandy Colbert presents The Voting Booth with Nina LaCour. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Ari Braverman presents The Ballad of Big Feeling with Juliet Escoria. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Tana Wojczuk presents Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity with Amy Brady. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free, donation suggested.

Lauren J. Sharkey presents Inconvenient Daughter with Sheila Squillante. White Whale Bookstores via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Wednesday 7/8: Debra Jo Immergut presents You Again with Cheryl Pearl Sucher. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Kevin O’Leary presents Madison’s Sorrow: Today’s War on the Founders and America’s Liberal Ideal. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Steven Levy presents Facebook: The Inside Story with Lawrence Lessig. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3 suggested.

Lara Prescott presents The Secrets We Keep. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Leslie Kern presents Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World with Samuel Stein. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Lynn Steger Strong presents Want and talks with Rumaan Alam. Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Samantha M. Bailey, David Bell, Lynne Constantine, Hannah Mary McKinnon, and Roz Nay join a panel on thrillers moderated by best-selling author Wendy Walker. Shakespeare & Co. via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Heather Lende presents Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaska Adventure in Small-Town Politics. Zoom, 9 p.m. EDT, free.

Thea Matthews presents Unearth [The Flowers]. Zoom, 7 p.m. PDT, free.

Thursday 7/9: Emily Wortman-Wunder joins the Readings By Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. PST, free.

André Aciman and Stacey D’Erasmo discuss Olivia by Dorothy Strachey. The Center for Fiction, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Adam Wilson presents Sensation Machines with Kimberly King Parsons and Justin Taylor. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Stephen Genetti, Walt Peterson, Christine Telfer, Paul Zdrale, Jr., and Jay Carson join the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange reading. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Andrew Martin presents Cool for America and talks with Halle Butler. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free, donation suggested.

George Hofmann presents Resilience: Handling Anxiety in the Time of Crisis. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Diane Cardwell presents Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life. Powerhouse Arena via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Susan Wiggs presents The Lost and Found Bookshop. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

David K. Randall presents Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague with Dr. Celine Gounder. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Robin Wasserman presents Mother Daughter Widow Wife with Leslie Jamison, author of Make It Scream, Make It Burn. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free with RSVP.

Niloufar Talebi presents Self-Portrait In Bloom with Sokunthary Svay. Brookline Booksmith via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Friday 7/10: Brad Fox presents To Remain Nameless with Claire Messud. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Rose Andersen presents The Heart And Other Monsters with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Saeed Jones presents How We Fight for Our Lives and talks with Morgan Parker. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Saturday 7/11: Tony Trigilio, Ellen McGrath Smith, and Sara McNally join the Vaser Cat reading series. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.,m. EDT, free with RSVP.

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Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com. More from this author →