Boston area author visits, Oct. 26-Nov. 1

By Judith Maas
SUNDAY: Margaret Cezair-Thompson (‘‘The Pirate’s Daughter’’), Amy MacKinnon (‘‘Tethered’’), and Peter Clenott (‘‘Hunting the King’’) speak at 3 p.m., at Fowler Library, 1322 Main St., W. Concord. ... Alice Mattison (‘‘Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn’’) and Leah Hager Cohen (‘‘House Lights’’) read at 2 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville. ... Catherine Goldhammer discusses ‘‘Winging It,’’ at 3 p.m., at Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset. ... Children’s author Gigi Amateau speaks at 3 p.m., at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester. ... Children’s author Brian Lies reads at 3 p.m., at Winchester Public Library, 80 Washington St., Winchester.
MONDAY: John Demos discusses ‘‘The Enemy Within,’’ at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner, Brookline. ... Michelle Nicholasen and Barbara O’Neal discuss ‘‘I Brake for Meltdowns,’’ at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge. ... Ruth Nemzoff discusses ‘‘Don’t Bite Your Tongue,’’ at 7:30 p.m., at Dover Town Library, 56 Dedham, Dover.
TUESDAY: Roy Blount Jr. discusses ‘‘Alphabet Juice,’’ at 6 p.m., at Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge; for tickets ($27), call Harvard Book Store at 617-661-1515. ... Susan Quinn discusses ‘‘Furious Improvisation,’’ at 7:30 p.m., at the Concord Museum, Cambridge Tpke., Concord. ... Susan Squire discusses ‘‘I Don’t,’’ at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith. ... Rosamund Purcell discusses ‘‘Egg and Nest,’’ at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ... Gary Hirshberg discusses ‘‘Stirring It Up,’’ at 7 p.m., at Memorial Hall Library, Elm Square, Andover. ... Steven Fake and Kevin Funk discusses ‘‘The Scramble for Africa,’’ at 7 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop, Cambridge.
WEDNESDAY: Andre Dubus III discusses ‘‘The Garden of Last Days,’’ at 7:30 p.m., at Comley-Lane Theater, Mahoney Hall UMass Lowell, South Campus. ... Michael Palmer reads from ‘‘The First Patient,’’ at 7 p.m., at Rockport Public Library, 17 School St., Rockport. ... Linda Bilmes discusses ‘‘The Three Trillion Dollar War,’’ at 7:30 p.m., at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge. ... Gwen and Franco Romagnoli discuss ‘‘Italy the Romagnoli Way,’’ at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ... Novelist Kim McLarin and poet Daniel Tobin read at 6 p.m., at Barnes & Noble at Emerson College, 114 Boylston St. ... Win McCormack discusses ‘‘You Don’t Know Me,’’ at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith. ... Ann Patchett (‘‘Run’’) speaks at 7 p.m., at McCall Middle School, 458 Main St., Winchester. ... Peter May discusses ‘‘Top of the World,’’ at 7 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith, 82 Central St., Wellesley.
THURSDAY: Christina Thompson discusses ‘‘Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All,’’ at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books. ... Juliana Hatfield discusses ‘‘When I Grow Up,’’ at 7 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, Kenmore Square, Boston University. ... Science fiction authors Jeffrey A. Carver, Chris Howard, and Craig Shaw Gardner speak at 7:30 p.m., in Alumni Lounge, Alumni Library, University Ave., UMass Lowell, North Campus. ... Irene Pepperberg discusses ‘‘Alex and Me,’’ at 7 p.m., at First Parish Church, Cambridge; for tickets ($5), call Harvard Book Store at 617-661-1515. ... Elise Tripp and others discuss ‘‘Surviving Iraq,’’ at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith. ... Eric Chivian discusses ‘‘Sustaining Life,’’ at 7 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop. ... William Tapply reads from ‘‘Hell Bent,’’ at 7 p.m., at Jabberwocky Bookshop, 50 Water St., Newburyport.
FRIDAY: Askold Melnyczuk (‘‘The House of Widows’’), Francie Lin (‘‘The Foreigner’’), and Benjamin Markovits (‘‘A Quiet Adjustment’’) speak at 7:30 p.m., at Concord Library, 129 Main St., Concord. ... Leslie S. Klinger discusses ‘‘The New Annotated Dracula,’’ at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. ... Madelyn Holmes discusses ‘‘Students and Teachers of the New China,’’ at 8 p.m., at 42 Brattle St., Cambridge. ... Joe Hill reads from ‘‘Twentieth Century Ghosts,’’ at 7 p.m., at Jabberwocky Bookshop.
SATURDAY: Clint Richmond leads a walking tour based on ‘‘Political Places of Boston,’’ at 10:30 a.m., beginning at 60 State St. (near the Orange Line T stop) ($10).

Events are subject to change.