Author Readings Around Boston May 22-28

Anita Diamond (“Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice”) reads in person at 2 p.m. at the Needham Free Public Library. . . Katerina Canyon (“Surviving Home”) reads in person at 6:30 p.m. at Trident Booksellers.

MONDAY

Ren Hutchings (“Under Fortunate Stars”) is in conversation with Karen Osborne at 6 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith. . . michelle zauner (“Crying in H Mart: A Memoir”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library. . . Alyssa Songsiridej (“Little Rabbit”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. . . Ben McGrath (“Riverman: An American Odyssey”) is in conversation with Brendan Greley in person at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books.

TUESDAY

Robert Kuttner (“Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy”) is in conversation with Lisa Cohen in person at 6 p.m. at the Cambridge Public Library at an event co-hosted by Harvard Book Store. . . TM Blanchet (“Herrick’s End”) is in conversation with Joseph Moldover in person at 7 p.m. at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. . . Nicholas A. Basbanes (“Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Eldredge Public Library. . . Rachel Barenbaum (“Atomic Anna”) reads virtually and in person at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Kehillath Israel at an event hosted by Brookline Booksmith.

WEDNESDAY

Gene Luen Yang (“Dragon Hoops”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Boston Public Library. . . Bill Lichtenstein (“WBCN and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll”) reads in person at 6 p.m. at the Central Branch of the Boston Public Library. . . Michael J. Moore (“We Are All Whalers”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the Morse Institute Library. . . Eric Jay Dolin (“Rebels At Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution”) reads virtually and in person at 6:30 p.m. at the Abbot Public Library. . . Jacinda Townsend (“Motherland”) is in conversation with Jennifer Haight in person at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith. . . Lisa Stringfellow (“A wishing comb” and TM Blanchet (“Herrick’s End”) read in person at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition. . . Elisa Reid (“Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at Une histoire improbable (tickets are $5 for admission or $28.68 for admission and a copy of the book). . . Scott Stedman (“Mouse”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books. . . Philippe Dray (“A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age”) is in conversation with Kyera Singleton at 7 p.m. at the Boston Athenaeum (tickets are $5). . . Diane C. McPhail (“The Seamstress of New Orleans”) reads at 7 p.m. at the Langley-Adams Library. . . Laynie Browne (“Translation of lilies into lists”), Joan Houlihan (“It’s not a ghost if it lives in your chest”), and Lynne Potts (“Mame, Sol and Dog Bark”) read virtually and in person at 7 p.m. at Grolier Poetry Bookstore. . . Dean Grodzins (“American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism”) reads virtually and in person at 7 p.m. at the Concord Museum (tickets are free for a virtual tour and $10 for an in-person tour).

THURSDAY

Anita Diamond (“Period. End of sentence.: A new chapter in the fight for menstrual justice”), Allegra Goodman (“The Chalk Artist”), and Rachel Kadis (“The Weight of Ink”) are in conversation with Michael Hoberman in person at 6 p.m. at the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (tickets start at $100). . . Yanyi (“Dream of the Divided Field: Poems”) and Victoria Chang (“Trees Testify to Everything”) read at 6 p.m. at the Cambridge Public Library. . . Elif Batouman (“Either/Or”) is in conversation with Beth Blum in person at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. . . Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (“The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred”) is in conversation with Frankie de la Cretaz in person at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith. . . Michael Meltsner (“Mosaic: Who Paid for the Bullet?”) is in conversation with Daniel Medwed in person at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books. . . Elisa Reid (“The Secrets of the Sprakkars: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They’re Changing the World”) is in conversation with Anne Hood in person at 7 p.m. at the Somerville Theater at an event hosted by All She Wrote Books (tickets are $10 for admission or $39 for admission and a copy of the book). . . Ocean Vuong (“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”) is in conversation with Sandra Lim at 7 p.m. at the Chelmsford Public Library. . . BA Shapiro (“Metropolis”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at the Sandwich Public Library.

FRIDAY

Noga Arikha (“The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind”) is in conversation with Shayla Love at 5 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. . . Tsering Yangzom Lama (“We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies”) is in conversation with tenzin dickie in person at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith.

SATURDAY

Kristen Wixted and Sam Donovan (“Miss Rita, Mystery Reader”) read in person at 11 a.m. at OUT MetroWest at an event hosted by The Silver Unicorn Bookstore. . . Julie Carr and Lisa Olstein (“Climate”) are in conversation with Kim Adrian at 6 p.m. at the Brookline Booksmith.