Notable Online: 9/6–9/12
Monday 9/7: Matthew Yeager hosts KGB Poetry with David Tomas Martinez and Star Black. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Tuesday 9/8: Martha S. Jones presents Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All with Nikole Hannah-Jones. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3.
Abayomi Animashaun and contributors Michael Collins, Rob Carney, Barbara Perry, and David M. Harris discuss Far Villages Anthology: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets with Black Lawrence Press. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Chuck Palahniuk presents The Invention of Sound. Skylight Books via Livestream, 6:30 p.m. PDT, $5.
Bea Koch and Alyssa Cole present Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency. Loyalty Books via CrowdCast, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Ryan North presents a virtual craft happy. Writers Center, 5 p.m. EDT, free.
Hanna Pachman joins the Cobalt Poets reading series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Kristofer Collins, Daniela Buccilli, Richard Gegick, and Jamilla Rice celebrate The River Is Another Kind of Prayer. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Jill McCorkle presents Hieroglyphics. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 7 p.m. CDT, free.
Sarah Ruhl talks with Jill Bialosky about 44 Poems for You. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Daniel Mendelsohn presents Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate and talks with Jonathan Lethem. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Mary Cappello presents Lecture with Namwali Serpell. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Yaa Gyasi presents Transcendent Kingdom and talks with Tracy K. Smith. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, $5.
Wednesday 9/9: Sue Miller presents Monogamy with Dani Shapiro. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3.
Sigrid Nunez talks with Susan Choi about What You Are Going Through. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Larry I. Palmer presents Scholarship Boy: Meditations on Family and Race. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 7 p.m. CDT, free.
Lev Grossman presents The Silver Arrow. Vroman’s Bookstore via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. PDT, free.
Dr. Meera Shah presents You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Megan Cummins presents If the Body Allows It with Brigid Hughes. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Thursday 9/10: Michele Filgate hosts the Red Ink Series with Natalie Diaz, Elisa Gabbert, Meredith Talusan, and Vanessa Veselka. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Aija Mayrock presents Dear Girl. The Strand via Zoom, 5:30 p.m. EDT, $15.
Amy Long hosts Tatiana Ryckman, Tobias Carroll, and Brice Randall Bickford for a Book Birthdays Reading. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
S. Brook Corfman celebrates My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites with Stephanie Cawley, Nico Amador, Yona Harvey, and Ruth Awad. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Tara June Winch discusses The Yield. Brooklyn Public Library via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Kerri Arsenault presents Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains and talks with Ben Fountain. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Megan Alpert, Amelia Diaz Ettinger, and Jennifer Perrine celebrate books from Airlie Press. Annie Bloom’s Books via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. PDT, free.
Eric von Schrader talks about A Universe Less Traveled. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 7 p.m. CDT, free.
M.O. Walsh presents The Big Door Prize with David James Poissant. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Sophie Hughes and Megan McDowell talk with Alejandra Oliva about Hurricane Season and Natural History. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 5 p.m. EDT, free.
Lara Ehrlich and Amy Shearn discuss Animal Wife and Unseen City. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Claudio Saunt presents Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. A Cappella Books via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Greer Macallister and Carrie Callaghan discuss Woman 99 and Salt the Snow. Loyalty Bookstores via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. EDT, free.
Sarah Kasbeer presents A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man with Alice Bolin. APSU via Zoom, 8 pm EDT, free.
Friday 9/11: Vanessa Veselka presents The Great Offshore Grounds. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3.
The Book Project Presents: Writing Is Hard and No One Cares with Gabino Iglesias. Zoom, 6 p.m. MDT, $10.
Barney Scout Mann presents Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail. Vroman’s Boosktore via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. PDT, free.
David Hollander talks with Rick Moody about Anthropica. Powerhouse Arena via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Saturday 9/12: Jenny Erpenbeck presents Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces with Neel Mukherjee. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 2 p.m. EDT, free. So
Leah Umansky celebrates nine years of the COUPLET reading series with Meghan Privitello, Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, Ricardo Maldonado, Jill Bialosky, and Hala Alyan. The Read Room via Zoom, 6 p.m. EDT, $5.
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