Notable Online: 8/8–8/14
Monday 8/9: Kiese Laymon, Melissa Febos, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Chris Stuck, and Elle Nash join host Marae Hart for the Franklin Park Reading series. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Maggie Smith presents Goldenrod, in conversation with Victoria Chang. Skylight Books via Crowdcast, 5:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Mona Awad presents All’s Well, in conversation with Dana Spiotta. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Anita Kopacz and LaTanya McQueen discuss Shallow Waters and When the Reckoning Comes. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Nadia Owusu presents Aftershocks: a Memoir, in conversation with Tope Folarin. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Tuesday 8/10: Alaa Al Aswany presents The Republic of False Truths, in conversation with Christopher Bollen. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Megan Abbott discusses The Turnout, in conversation with Ivy Pochoda. Skylight Books via Crowdcast, 6 p.m. PDT, free.
Joanna Schaffhausen presents Gone for Good. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
YZ Chin presents Edge Case, in conversation with Pitchaya Sudbanthad. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Ryka Aoki joins the Cobalt Poets reading series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Veronica Corpuz, Richard Gegick, Monica Prince, Dan Shapiro, and Lawrence Wray join Hemingway’s 2021 Summer Poetry Series. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Virginia Feito presents Mrs. March. Harvard Bookstore via Crowdcast, 6 p.m. EDT, $31.
Cecily Strong presents This Will All Be Over Soon. Harvard Bookstore via Crowdcast, 8 p.m. EDT, $33.25.
Tao Lin presents Leave Society, in conversation with with Tommy Orange. Booksmith via Go Passage, 10 p.m. EDT, free.
Molly Wizenberg presents The Fixed Stars, in conversation with Sara B. Franklin. Book Passage via Twitch and YouTube, 5:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Tracy Swinton Bailey presents Forever Free. Vroman’s via Crowdcast, 6 p.m. PDT, free.
Hermione Hoby and Katie Kitamura present Virtue and Intimacies. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Wednesday 8/11: Chloe Shaw presents What Is a Dog?: A Memoir, in conversation with Molly Jong-Fast. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Richard Lange presents Rovers, in conversation with Jonathan Ames. Skylight Books via Crowdcast, 6 p.m. PDT, free.
Ash Davidson presents Damnation Spring, in conversation with Nickolas Butler. Book Passage via Twitch and YouTube, 5:30 p.m. PDT, free.
Joyce Carol Oates presents Breathe. Harvard Bookstore via Crowdcast, 8 p.m. EDT, $34.25.
Eleanor Henderson presents Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage, in conversation with Joanna Rakoff. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Laura Hankin presents A Special Place for Women, in conversation with Laurie Gillman. East City Books via Zoom, 4 p.m. EDT, free.
Tori Bovalino presents The Devil Makes Three, in conversation with Rachael Lippincott. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Charlotte Nicole Davis and Bethany C. Morrow present The Sisters of Reckoning and A Chorus Rises. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
Claire Luchette presents Agatha of Little Neon, in conversation with Grace Perry. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 7 p.m. CDT, free.
Thursday 8/12: Joe Okonkwo presents Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck. Book Culture via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh presents American Estrangement: Stories, in conversation with Joshua Ferris. The Strand via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Rémy Ngamije presents The Eternal Audience of One. Harvard Bookstore via Crowdcast, 5 p.m. EDT, $5.
Michele Harper presents The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir. Loyalty Bookstores via Crowdcast, 6 p.m. EDT, free.
Amy Koppelman joins the Readings By Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. EDT, free.
Ann Hagedorn presents Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away. Writer’s Center via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi presents Savage Tongues, in conversation with Laura van den Berg. Unabridged Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. CDT, free.
Da’Shaun Harrison presents Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, in conversation with Danez Smith. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 8 p.m. EDT, free.
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Are you planning on to return to in-person events? If so, when? Email Ian MacAllen at [email protected] and let us know! If you have an in-person listing you’d like us to consider, in the subject line of the email, please include the event’s city and date, and in the body of the email, include a link to the event information. Deadline is Tuesday for publication on Sunday.
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If you have a listing you’d like us to consider, please contact [email protected]. In the subject line of the email, please include the event’s date. Please include the virtual platform, time zone, and a link to the event information in the body of your email.
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