Book Events- Culture Vulture or Extra Credit

Tuesday, November 10

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Tariq Ali, The Idea of Communism

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Sebastian Stuart, The Hour Between
Jonathan Strong, Drawn from Life

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
Dorothy Lamb Crawford, A Windfall of Musicians

Wednesday, November 11

7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
November Winedown, Booksellers' Favorite Cookbooks

7:30pm, Brookline Booksmith sponsored reading at Congregation Kehillath Israel, $5
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

Thursday, November 12

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Christopher Ives - Imperial-Way Zen

7:00 pm, Porter Square Books
John Connolly, The Gates

7:30 pm, Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall (sponsored by Harvard Book Store)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Colored People: A Memoir

7:00 pm, Room 101 of Boston University’s School of Communication building, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, $5
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Russian-language reading

Friday, November 13

3:00 pm, Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
Robert Strassler, Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika

6:00 pm, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store), $5
Elizabeth Benedict, Mentors, Muses & Monsters: Thirty Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives
with Chris Castellani, Margot Livesey, Jay Cantor, Julia Glass, and Jim Shepard

7:00 pm, Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Harvard Square
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Reading and reception

New England Crime Bake
Annual mystery writers’ and readers’ conference takes place all weekend in Dedham. Sold out.

Saturday, November 14

9:30 AM, First Parish Church
Cambridge Forum
The Road to Copenhagen: A Mini Conference on Global Climate Change

7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith
Aimee Bender, The Third Elevator (a reading for Madras Press)