Brookline Booksmith welcomes MORGAN PARKER, author of the poetry collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce.  for Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, Parker’s poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in a time of war over bodies and power. They celebrate, they mourn, they command your undivided attention.

Most people wouldn't choose somewhere desolate and snowy for creative endeavors. But author NELL STEVENS wanted no distractions. Join her at Brookline Booksmith for a discussion of her book-- the end result of her struggle to craft a debut novel. A whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with wry writing advice, Bleaker House is the story of Steven’s attempt to hunker down and write – not in some idyllic French villa, but on a frozen rock in the Falklands, with…

Fascinated by WWII plots? Join RICHARD GRANT at Brookline Booksmith for a gripping tale of espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause. Oskar is soon dispatched to Washington, D.C. on a perilous mission. Despite his best efforts, Oskar is compromised, and must immediately find a way to sneak back into Germany unnoticed. A childhood friend…

Psychological suspense right up your alley? Join HALLIE EPHRON, the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight, at Brookline Booksmith for a reading of her new book, You'll Never Know, Dear. The gripping novel tells the story of three generations of women haunted by a little girl’s disappearance, and the porcelain doll that may hold a key to the truth.

ANITA DIAMANT, hosted by Brookline Booksmith, discusses her newest guide.  Newly revised and updated, The Jewish Wedding Now, is the definitive guide to planning a Jewish wedding—written by bestselling novelist ANITA DIAMANT, author of The Red Tent and The Boston Girl, and one of the most respected writers on contemporary Jewish life. This event is not ticketed.    

A double-header from two acclaimed short story authors!  Brookline Booksmith welcomes AKHIL SHARMA with A Life of Adventure and Delight and BILL ROORBACH with The Girl of the Lake. Respectively referred to as "hypnotic as...the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation), In A Life of Adventure and Delight, SHARMA delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and that plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. ROORBACH is described as "a kinder, gentler John…

Brookline Booksmith hosts essayist, critic and author MICHAEL FRANK presenting his family memoir, The Might Franks, which the New York Times calls "probing and radiantly polished." About The Mighty Franks: Talented, sparkling, and lavish with both money and love, Auntie Hankie teaches young Michael which books to read, which painters to admire, and which people to adore— but beneath her charm lies a dangerous rage. This true Hollywood tale of an eccentric Jewish household tests where the boundaries of family…

Brookline Booksmith welcomes SJ SINDU with her novel Marriage of a Thousand Lies.  Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay.  They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative families while each dates on the side.  It’s not ideal, but it seems to be working— that is, until Lucky rekindles a relationship with her first lover and childhood best friend, Nisha. “A timely tale with themes of immigration, free will, identity, and personal choice.” — Booklist This event is…

Join Brookline Booksmith as they host LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG and HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, who will discuss GOLDBERG's The Mentor. When his favorite college professor mentions that he’s writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed. He’s eager to read the opus his mentor has toiled over...until it turns out to be not only horribly written, but depraved, and uncannily close to a real unsolved murder. This event is not ticketed.

Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like true story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species. Join BEN MEZRICH at Brookline Booksmith for a look at his new book- Woolly. The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The 37th Parallel takes us on an exhilarating true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University.

Brookline Booksmith hosts MATTHEW KLAM, author of story collection Sam the Cat: and Other Stories, with the release of his first novel Who is Rich?  He is joined by bestselling author CURTIS SITTENFELD (Prep). Who is Rich? A provocative and hilarious satire of love, sex, money, and politics in our new gilded age. This event is not ticketed.

Brookline Booksmith hosts actor CURTIS ARMSTRONG with his memoir Revenge of the Nerd. A legendary comedic second banana, Curtis is forever cemented in the public imagination as Booger from Revenge of the Nerds— but there's more to Curtis' story than that.  With whip-smart, self-effacing humor, Armstrong takes us on a most unlikely journey— one nerd's hilarious, often touching, rise to the middle.

Sci-fi fans, take note!  Brookline Booksmith welcomes NYT bestselling author CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE and novelist THEODORA GOSS for a discussion of females in horror/sci-fi literature.   In their latest works, Valente and Goss write from women’s perspectives. VALENTE's The Refrigerator Monologues explores the a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who’s ever been “refrigerated”: so that a male superhero’s storyline will progress. GOSS's The Strange Case of…

Brookline Booksmith welcomes MICHAEL CONNELLY with his latest mystery novel: The Late Show.  A once up-and-coming detective, Renée Ballard is stuck on the Hollywood night shift since accusing a supervisor of sexual harassment. But after catching two cases she can’t let go of—the brutal beating of a prostitute, and the shooting of a young woman in a nightclub—Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. This event is not ticketed.

Brookline Booksmith hosts DAVID GESSNER as he reads from his memoir Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth. Before his rise as an acclaimed essayist and nature writer, GESSNER devoted his 20's to the cult-ish sport of Ultimate Frisbee.  Sacrificing his body and potential career, he spent countless hours in pursuit of fleeting glory.  Ultimate Glory is a portrait of the artist as a young ruffian. This event is not ticketed.

Join Brookline Booksmith as they host debut author JESSICA BERGER GROSS and novelist DAPHNE KALOTAY (Sight Reading, Russian Winter) for a discussion of the process of writing about family and abuse. In her powerful new memoir, Estranged, reminiscent of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle, JESSICA BERGER GROSS recounts the internalization of her abusive childhood, the decision to break free from her family, and the difficult road that followed that ultimately allowed her to carve a path to happiness. This event is…

Brookline Booksmith welcomes EMILY CULLITON and MONA AWAD for a conversation about CULLITON's book, The Misfortune of Marion Palm. AWAD's writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Walrus, Joyland, Post Road, St. Petersburg Review, and elsewhere; CULLITON is a PhD candidate at the University of Denver for fiction. The Misfortune of Marion Palm is her first novel. About The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A wildly entertaining debut about a wife and mother who embezzles a small fortune from her children’s private school and makes a run for it,…

Brookline Booksmith hosts debut novelist ADAM ABRAMOWITZ, author of Bosstown. Boston’s fastest bike messenger is dragged into Boston’s gritty underworld of gangsters and blood money when the Big Dig threatens to uncover bodies and secrets his poker king father thought he had buried long ago. This event is not ticketed.

Curious about the relationship between philosophy and meditation?  Come to Brookline Booksmith for an event with acclaimed author ROBERT WRIGHT discussing his latest book, Why Buddhism is True. From one of America’s great minds, Why Buddhism is True is a journey through psychology, philosophy, and meditation in an effort to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. ROBERT WRIGHT is the author of The Moral Animal, Nonzero, and Three Scientists and Their Gods. The New York…

Husband-and-Wife duo come to Brookline Booksmith with stories that offer a morphine-addicted nurse who wanders through the decimated French countryside in search of purpose (The Mountain, YOON), and a grocery store clerk immune to a worldwide plague of memory loss (Find Me, VAN DEN BERG).  Don’t miss this highly acclaimed double-header! This event is not ticketed.

Brookline Booksmith welcomes ZOE QUINN, author of Crash Override: How Gamer Gate  (Nearly) Destroyed My Life. Through her story as both target and activist, QUINN delves into the controversies, threats, and cultural battles that permeate our online lives. QUINN is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a vengeful blog post cobbled together from private information, half-truths, and outright fictions, and rallied online hordes to target her. Under the guise of #gamergate, they hacked her accounts; stole nude photos of her;…

If you think you know all there is to marriage, don't be afraid to put that to the test. Brookline Booksmith welcomes ELI J. FINKEL, professor at Northwestern University, to read from and discuss his book The All-or-Nothing Marriage. The institution of marriage in America is struggling, but— as FINKEL’s most recent research reveals— the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras.  FINKEL provides a sweeping historic overview, showing that the primary functions of marriage from…

Brooklyn Booksmith is pleased to welcome JOHN HECHINGER, author of True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities, in conversation with Max Larkin. Hechinger embarks on a deep investigation of SAE and general fraternity culture, exposing the vast gulf between its founding ideals and the realities of its impact, on colleges and in the world at large. This event is free and open to the public.

Brookline Booksmith invites you to a reading and discussion in honor of the anthology THIS IS NOT A BORDER: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature with contributors TEJU COLE and RU FREEMAN, in conversation with KHURY PETERSEN-SMITH and TOM HALLOCK. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Palestine Festival of Literature, THIS IS NOT A BORDER is a collection of essays, poems, and sketches from some of the world’s most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique…

On April 17th, Négar Djavadi will be in conversation with author Laura van den Berg at the Brookline Booksmith as part of their Transnational Literature Series. This series focuses on books concerned with migration, displacement, and exile, with particular emphasis on works in translation. DISORIENTAL, Djavadi's début novel, is the winner of several awards, including: the Prix du Style, Prix de la Porte Dorée, Prix du Roman News, Prix Première (RTBF), Emmanuel Roblès First Novel Prize, and Lire’s Best Debut…

USA Today bestselling author of The City Baker's Guide to Country Living LOUISE MILLER will be celebrating the launch of her 2nd novel, The Late Bloomers' Club, on Wednesday, July 18th at Brookline Booksmith. Louise will be reading, answering questions, signing books and serving cake!

Join us for an evening of poetry with Sally Wen Mao, Jennifer Tseng, and Ocean Vuong to celebrate the release of Sally Wen Mao’s new poetry collection Oculus. Through poetry and fiction, through experimentation with form and genre, the work of these writers complicates our understanding of nationality and place by considering all that goes into their construction - technology and spectacle, translation and language, trauma and war. Sally Wen Mao is the author of a previous poetry collection, Mad Honey Symposium. Her…

Join us for the launch of Elisa Gabbert’s latest book, The Word Pretty. Elisa will be reading with Teju Cole. Elisa Gabbert is a poet and essayist and the author of four collections: The Word Pretty (Black Ocean, 2018), L’Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean, 2016), The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, 2013), and The French Exit (Birds LLC, 2010). The Self Unstable was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2013. Elisa’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of…