Join Elizabeth Metzger in conversation about Lying In, with Timothy Donnelly.

Celebrated writer Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red, will visit Paris Gibson Museum of Art for a book reading, discussion, and signing of her new novel, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea.

Porter Square Books: Boston Edition and GrubStreet are delighted to present the latest installment of the Grubbie Debut event series, featuring Shilpi Suneja, author of House of Caravans! Prize-winning author Daphne Kalotay will join the author in conversation

JJJJJerome Ellis presents an improvisational lecture-performance on his ongoing research on music, stuttering, race, and nature.

In this improvisational lecture-performance, composer and poet JJJJJerome Ellis will share some of his ongoing research on intersections between music, stuttering, race, and nature. Using piano, saxophone, electronics, and voice, he’ll perform excerpts from “Benediction,” a devotional song cycle attending to 18th and 19th century black runaway slaves who stuttered.

The event will be livestreamed via the Harvard University Department of Music Youtube Channel.

1 to 2 PM — Creative Writing Prize Showcase
Featuring readings by award-winning student writers Mialise Carney, Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras, Celeste Jones, Sharon K. McClain, James T. Morrison, Alejandro Perea-Sanchez, Jacob Reina, Kaylee Ruiz, and Alberto Saldaña Uribe. With introductions by student writer Stella Velez.

2:30 to 4 PM — Debut Authors
Featuring readings by alumni authors Pilar Christiana Graham, Padraig Hogan, and Gabriel Ibarra. With introductions by alumni writer Angela Chaidez Vincent, and a book signing to follow.

4 to 6 PM — Break
Dinner on your own.

6 to 7:30 PM —…

Kaleidoscope members and their guests are invited to peek behind the covers—and behind the curtain—of Milkweed Editions. Join Milkweed Publisher and CEO Daniel Slager, author and translator Dan Beachy-Quick, and Milkweed Fellow Moheb Soliman to learn more about the Seedbank series of world literature and how these books come to life.

Join Jennifer duBois for a reading and conversation about her latest novel The Last Language.

Join Shilpi Suneja for a reading and conversation about her debut novel House of Caravans.

Join us for the December entry in our monthly Faculty/Student Reading Series, where we host a local faculty writer from the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing MFA Program and a student writer, offering a chance for emerging local writers to place their work in conversation with an established writer. For this final reading of the Fall 2023 semester, MFA candidate Jordan Young will be reading with Kathryn Nuernberger, author of The Witch of Eye.

This reading will also feature an exclusive student discount on all purchases in the bookstore, where anyone attending with a valid student…

Join us for the November entry in our monthly Faculty/Student Reading Series, where we host a local faculty writer from the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing MFA Program and a student writer, offering a chance for emerging local writers to place their work in conversation with an established writer. For this month’s reading, MFA candidate Natalie Dalea will be reading with Kim Todd, author of Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters.”

This reading will also feature an exclusive student discount on all purchases in the bookstore, where anyone attending with…