Notable Online: 9/13–9/19
Sunday 9/13: Fariha Róisín presents Like a Bird with Tanaïs. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 3 p.m. PDT, free.
Monday 9/14: Marie-Helene Bertino, Vanessa Veselka, Sam Pink, and Michael Seidlinger, join host Marae Hart and Penina Roth for the virtual edition of the Franklin Park Reading Series. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Peace Adzo Medie presents His Only Wife. Harvard Book Store via CrowdCast, 5 p.m. EDT, $3.
Kerri Arsenault and Jaed Coffin discuss Mill Town and Roughhouse Friday. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Paula Chase talks with Renée Watson about Turning Point. Brain Lair Books via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Gina Williams, Dan Raphael, and Christopher Luna read poetry. Annie Bloom’s Books via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. PDT, free.
Jacqueline Suskin presents The Edge of the Continent: The Desert. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Mychal Denzel Smith and Brit Bennett discuss Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, $5.
Richard McCann and Jodi Bolz join the Monday Night Poetry series. KGB Bar via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Carlos Aguasaco, Mark Eisner, Tina Escaja, and Idra Novey celebrate books beneath the bridge and read from their works. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Tuesday 9/15: Alex Dang joins the Cobalt Poets series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Diane Goettel and anthology contributors Norman Minnick Jr., Jason McCall, Emily Stoddard, and John Langfeld discuss Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets. Black Lawrence Press via Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Cathy Linh Che, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Lynne Procope, and Cynthia Manick join the Soul Sister Revue. Zoom, 1 p.m. EDT, free.
Tiffany D. Jackson presents Grown and Mark Oshiro presents Each of Us a Desert. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Emily Hashimoto talks with Sarah Schulman about A World Between. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Julian Winters talks with Leah Johnson discuss The Summer of Everything. Brain Lair Books via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Robyn Creswell, Hodna Bentali Gharsallah Nuernberg, Rawad Wehbe, and moderator Sarah Coolidge. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Katherine Landdeck presents The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. A Cappella books via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Caitlin Moran presents More Than a Woman. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 1 p.m. CDT, free.
Sarah Kirk, Tracy Chahwan, Gerardo Alba, and Alexandra Beguez celebrate Guantanamo Voices: The True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Frank B. Wilderson III presents Afropessimism. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Nikky Finney and Nandi Comer will read from their new collections, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts and Tapping Out along with moderator Parneshia Jones Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Tobias Carroll presents Political Sign and Kenneth R. Rosen presents Bulletproof Vest from the Object Lessons series. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Wednesday 9/16: Lexie Bean discusses The Ship We Built with Laurie Halse Anderson. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Veronica Montes, Alan Chazaro, Ricco Villanueva Siasoco, and Elsa Valmidiano join the Daly City Public Library Celebrates Local Authors Virtual Bookfest. Zoom, 6 p.m. PDT, free.
Chuck Palahniuk talks with Richard Kadrey about The Invention of Sound. The Bindery via Go Passage, 7 p.m. PDT, $36.
Meredith Hall presents Beneficence and talks with Lily Brooks-Dalton. Vroman’s Books via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. PDT, free.
Jessica Marie Johnson presents Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. Uncle Bobbie’s via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Melissa Monroe presents Medusa Beach with Edwin Frank. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
francine j. harris and Carl Phillips celebrate their new books of poetry, Here Is the Sweet Hand and Pale Colors in a Tall Field. Facebook, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Thursday 9/17: Mitchell Jackson joins the Readings by Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. EDT, free.
M.O. Walsh presents The Big Door Prize. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Sophie Yanow and Alison Bechdel discuss The Contradictions. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Fariha Róisín and Zeba Blay discuss Like a Bird. Loyalty Bookstores via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. EDT, free.
Kerri Arsenault presents Mill Town. Harvard Book Store via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3.
Salar Abdoh presents Out of Mesopotamia and talks with Dalia Sofer, author of Man of My Time along with moderator Persis Karim. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Jill Lepore presents If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future with the Brooklyn Public Library. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Jordan Stump and Imani Perry discuss Marie NDiaye’s That Time of Year. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Susan Buttenwieser, Jeffrey Harrison, Yona Harvey, and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado celebrate books from Four Way Books. Shakespeare & Co. via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Miah Jeffra presents The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! with Alanna Lin Ramage, Cheryl Klein, Claudia Rodriguez, Seth Fischer, and Linda Ravenswood. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Friday 9/18: Adam O. Davis, M. Soledad Caballero, Ann Townsend, and Andrew Seguin celebrate Index of Haunted Houses. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Suzzy Roche presents The Town Crazy with Meg Wolitzer. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Makenna Goodman presents The Shame with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Edward D. Melillo presents The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World. Harvard Book Store via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3.
Jose Hernandez Diaz presents The Fire Eater and presents a virtual craft happy hour. The Writing Center via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Saturday 9/19: Veronica Corpuz, Brittany Hailer, and Jaden Gongaware join the Laser Cat/Vaser Cat series. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Yaa Gyasi presents Transcendent Kingdom. Facebook, 7 p.m. CDT, free.
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