Sunday 4/4: Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Spencer Reece, Brad Richard, Grace Lau, Jennifer Franklin, and Matthew Lippman join guest host Kathleen Ossip for the Mercy Street Readings. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Derrick Austin, Darrin Doyle, Miguel Murphy, and James J. Siegel read new work for the San Francisco literary series Bazaar Writers Salon. Zoom, 6 p.m. PDT, free.
Monday 4/5: Margaree Little and Joseph Ross join Café Muse for a poetry reading. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Nadia Hashimi discusses Sparks Like Stars with Saumya Dave. Loyalty Bookstores via Crowdcast, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Kate Lebo presents The Book of Difficult Fruit. Auntie’s Bookstore via Zoom, 6 p.m. PST, free.
Edward Hirsch, Victoria Chang, and Vijay Seshadri celebrate 100 Poems to Break Your Heart. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Tuesday 4/6: Mariko Kitakubo joins the Cobalt Poets reading series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Jeff VanderMeer presents Hummingbird Salamander with Lydia Millet. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, $30.
Mateo Askaripour talks with Zeno Robinson about Black Buck. Brain Lair Books via Crowdcast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Katie Booth presents The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
K.M. Szpara presents First, Become Ashes with Sam J. Miller. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Melissa Febos presents Girlhood with ZZ Packer. Harvard Book Store via Crowdcast, 7 p.m. EDT, $5 suggested.
Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses Libertie with C. Morgan Babst. Skylight Books via Crowdcast, 6 p.m. PST, free.
Gabrielle Bluestone presents Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We’re Following with Cat Marnell and Leah McSweeney. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Erik Hoel presents The Revelations and talks with Andre Dubus III. The Center for Fiction via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Morgan Jerkins presents Caul Baby with Phoebe Robinson. Greenlight Bookstore and HarperCollins via Crowdcast, 7 p.m. EDT, $30.
Wednesday 4/7: Clemantine Wamariya talks with Jennifer Ballengee about The Girl Who Smiled Beads. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Gina Nutt presents Night Rooms. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Laura Lindstedt talks with Angela Ledgerwood about My Friend Natalia. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 5 p.m. EDT, free.
Peter Filkins and Vijay Seshadri read poetry. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Sanjena Sathian presents Gold Diggers with Andrew Ridker. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
C Pam Zhang presents How Much of These Hills Is Gold. The Booksmith and The Bindery via Zoom and Twitch, 9 p.m. EDT, free.
Philip Lopate presents The Golden Age of the American Essay, 1945-1970. Powerhouse Arena via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Martha King and Margaret Randall join the Poetry Project. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Gina Frangello talks with Joanna Rakoff about Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason. The Strand via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Thursday 4/8: Steve Dunn reads from Potted Meat and water & power. Cornell College Center for the Literary Arts via Zoom, 4:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Claire Thomas presents The Performance with Makenna Goodman. Still North Books & Bar via Crowdcast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Helen Oyeyemi presents Peaces with Sara Gran. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 5:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Kirstin Valdez Quade talks with Alice McDermott about The Five Wounds. The Center for Fiction via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Rickie Lee Jones talks with Howie Klein about Last Chance Texaco. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Willy Vlautin and Franz Nicolay discuss The Night Always Comes. Powerhouse Arena via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Rachel Kushner presents The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 with Hari Kunzru. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Kaitlyn Greenidge presents Libertie with Brandon Taylor. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney presents Good Company with Kate Flannery. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, $27.99.
Julia Alvarez talks with Emma Straub about Afterlife. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Friday 4/9: Diana Whitney, Stephanie Burt, and Tamiko Beyer present You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Helen Oyeyemi and Saeed Jones discuss Peaces. Loyalty Bookstores via Crowdcast, 6 p.m. EDT, free.
Sandi Tan presents Lurkers and talks with Kevin Kwan. Harvard Book Store via Crowdcast, 7 p.m. EDT, $5 suggested.
Sari Botton presents Goodbye to All That (Revised Edition) with Leslie Jamison, Lisa Ko, Emily Raboteau, and Rosie Schaap. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. PDT, free.
Saturday 4/10: Will Alexander and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge join the Segue Series. Zoom, 5 p.m. EDT, $5.
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