The best local book events this week

All author appearances are in person and free unless otherwise noted.

TUESDAY

• Codie Crowley (“Body Count”) is in conversation with Alyssa Alessi (“Beyond And Within: Stories of Latin America Anthology”) at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (Reservation is suggested).
• Maria Tatar (“Arachnomania: Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do for Us”) is in conversation with Charlie Tyson at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.
• Lindsey Danis (“(Out) on the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel”) is in conversation with Milo Todd (“The Lilac People”) at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books’ Cambridge location (Reservation is required).
• Laura Garden (“Queenslander”) celebrates the release of her book at 7 p.m. at Silver Unicorn Books.

WEDNESDAY

• Lois Cahall (“Maybe Marilyn”)celebrates the release of her book at 6:30 p.m. at Titcomb’s Book Shop (Reservation is required).
• Barry Walters (“Mighty Real”) is in conversation with Stephan Pennington at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (Reservation is suggested).
• Eric Jay Dolin (“Wreck of the Mentor”) presents his book at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books’ Cambridge location (Reservation is required).

THURSDAY

• Edward Arenson (“Feathers in the Wind: A Cancer Doctor Discovers Birding and Rediscovers Himself”) signs copies of his book at 11 a.m. at Titcomb’s Book Shop.
• Cat Fitzpatrick (“The Dinner Party”) is in conversation with Andrea Lawlor (“Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl”) at 7 p.m. at All She Wrote Books (Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can sliding scale).
• Ayelet Waldman (“A Perfect Hand”) is in conversation with J. Courtney Sullivan (“Commencement”) at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (Reservation is suggested).
• Monica Ferrell, Bianca Stone (“The Near and Distant World”), and Craig Morgan Teicher (“August, September, October”) read their poetry at 7 p.m. at Grolier Poetry Book Shop (Tickets start at $5).
• Katie DeBonville (“Grace Notes”) is in conversation with Matthew Principe at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books’ Cambridge location (Reservation is required).

FRIDAY

• Atima Omara (“The Instigators — How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy”) presents her book at 6 p.m. at Just Book-ish (Reservation is required).
• Rachel Karp (“The Lesbian Bar Chronicles”) is in conversation with Carina Traub at 7 p.m. at Belmont Books.
• Katherine Center (“The Shippers”) celebrates the release of her book at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church (Tickets are $37.74 and include a copy of the book).

SATURDAY

• Rachel Karp (“The Lesbian Bar Chronicles”) celebrates the release of her book at 4 p.m. at Dani’s Queer Bar (Tickets start at $7).
• Senator Chris Murphy (“Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America”) is in conversation with Heather Cox Richardson (“Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America”) at First Parish Church (Tickets start at $21.99).