Notable Online: 2/21–2/27

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Monday 2/22: Claudio Lomnitz and Graciela Montaldo discuss Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PST, free.

Yona Harvey and Natasha Sajé join the Monday Night Poetry series. Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Zak Salih talks about Let’s Get Back to the Party with Matt Ortile. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Tuesday 2/23: Trish Hopkinson joins the Cobalt Poets reading series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EST, free.

Priyanka Champaneri presents The City of Good Death with Grace Talusan. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EST, free.

Walter Mosley, Marisa Acocella, Renée Watson, and Matthew Gavin Frank are Seriously Entertaining. House of Speakeasy via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Anthony Cody and Keith S. Wilson read poetry with the Writers Center. Zoom, 8 p.m. EST, free.

Elizabeth Miki Brina and Francisco Cantú discuss Speak, Okinawa. Loyalty Bookstore via CrowdCast, 8 p.m. EST, free.

Patricia Lockwood celebrates No One Is Talking about This with Catherine Cohen. Skylight Books via Livestream, 6 p.m. EST, $5.

Candice Iloh, Jason Reynolds, and Rasheed Copeland join emily brandt for the sixth LINEAGE reading. Wendy’s Subway via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Emily St. John Mandel talks with Isaac Fitzgerald about The Glass Hotel. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Wednesday 2/24: Véronique Tadjo presents In the Company of Men. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 5 p.m. EST, $3.

Rachel Howzell Hall and Hank Phillippi Ryan join the Murder They Wrote series. CrowdCast, 6 p.m. EST, free.

Lauren Oyler presents Fake Accounts. Powerhouse Books via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Hermione Lee presents Tom Stoppard: A Life and talks with Tom Stoppard. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 5 p.m. EST, $45.

Patricia Lockwood talks with Jenny Offill about No One Is Talking about This and Weather. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Nicole LaPorte and Jeff Selingo discuss Guilty Admissions: The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies Behind the College Cheating Scandal and Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions. Vroman’s Bookstore via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. PST, free.

Tod Goldberg and Mark Haskell Smith discuss The Low Desert. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Philippe Sands talks with Rebecca Mead about The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 12 p.m. PST, free.

Elizabeth Miki Brina talks with Bryan Washington about Speak, Okinawa. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Thursday 2/25: Elle Johnson joins the Readings By Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. PST, free.

Curtis Sittenfeld reads from her work and talks with Darin Strauss. NYU via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Jane Cloyd, and host JP Howard join the Women Writers in Bloom series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EST, free.

Gabriel Byrne talks with Sarah McNally about Walking with Ghosts. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, $5.

Tanya Selvaratnam and Liz Plank discuss Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Zak Salih presents Let’s Get Back to the Party with Nick White. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EST, $3.

Amit Majmudar, Karthika Naïr, and Arundhathi Subramaniam read poetry. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 3 p.m. EST, free.

Diane Kerr presents Perigee with Gail Langstroth, Valerie Bacharach, and Celeste Gainey. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EST, free.

Maggie Nelson presents The Argonauts. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 6 p.m. EST, free.

Michalis Pichler, Steven Zultanski, and Felipe Becerra presents Ulises Carrión’s sonnets. Zoom, 6 p.m. EST, free.

Rinku Sen, Teresa Younger, and Andi Zeisler join author Koa Beck to discuss her new book, White Feminism: rom the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EST, free.

Friday 2/26: Karen Lillis, Angele Ellis, and Robert Walicki join Paola Corso to celebrate Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Saturday 2/27: danica depenhart, Kelly Gray, Rachel Marie Patterson, and Kristy Bowen join the Pretty Owl Poetry series. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Miguel Gutierrez and Ishmael Houston‐Jones join the Segue Series. Zoom, 5 p.m. EST, $5 suggested.

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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 →