Notable Online: 9/13–9/19

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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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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 →