Here Are Some Great Virtual Book Events Happening This Week

Sigrid Nunez discusses What Are You Going Through with Curtis Sittenfeld — hosted by Politics & Prose, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Yaa Gyasi discusses Transcendent Kingdom with Julie Buntin — hosted by Literati, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Mark Eisner and Tina Escaja, editors of Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution, discuss and read from the book with contributors Idra Novey and Carlos Aguasaco — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Sarah Weinman (Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession) and BuzzFeed News editor Jessica Garrison (The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer a Terrorized Community & the Search for Justice in Californias Central Valley) discuss their new books — hosted by Powell's, 5 p.m. PT, more info.

[Read an excerpt from The Devil's Harvest]

Peace Adzo Medie discusses His Only Wife with Wayétu Moore — hosted by Harvard Book Store, 5 p.m. ET, more info.

Nick Flynn discusses his memoir This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire with Jacqueline Woodson — hosted by McNally Jackson, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Mychal Denzel Smith presents Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream in conversation with Brit Bennett — hosted by Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Sarah Ramey discusses her memoir, The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness, with Jamie Quatro and Leslie Jamison — hosted by Parnassus Books, 6:30 p.m. CT, more info.

Kami Garcia discusses her new book Teen Titans: Beast Boy with Jennifer Niven — hosted by Books & Books, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Jacqueline Suskin reads from The Edge of the Continent: The Desert — hosted by Skylight Books, 6:30 p.m. PT, more info.

Rob Bell discusses Everything is Spiritual: Who We Are and What We're Doing Here with Preston Bell — hosted by Book Soup, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Helen Macdonald discusses Vesper Flights with Margaret Renkl — hosted by Parnassus Books, 6 p.m. CT, more info.

Tiffany D. Jackson (Grown) and Mark Oshiro (Each of Us a Desert) discuss their new books — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Raven Leilani discusses Luster with Glory Edim – hosted by Book Soup, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Frank B. Wilderson III discusses his new book, Afropessimism — hosted by Community Bookstore, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Kerri Arsenault (Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains) and Kurt Andersen (Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History) discuss their new books — hosted by City Lights, 6 p.m. PT, more info.

Angela Chen discusses Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex with Jess Zimmerman — hosted by Charis Books, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

[Read an excerpt from Ace]

Jordan Ifueko discusses Raybearer with Bethany C. Morrow — hosted by Powell's, 5 p.m. PT, more info.

Ellen Wayland-Smith discusses The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America with Michelle Nickerson — hosted by the Seminary Co-op and the University of Chicago Press, 6 p.m. CT, more info.

Micah Nemerever discusses These Violent Delights with Peter Kispert — hosted by Third Place Books, 5 p.m. PT, more info.

Peace Adzo Medie discusses His Only Wife with Ayesha Harruna Attah — hosted by Women & Children First, 6 p.m. CT, more info.

Daniel R. Day aka Dapper Dan discusses his memoir, Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem — hosted by The Ivy Bookshop, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Emily Hashimoto discusses A World Between with Sarah Schulman — hosted by McNally Jackson, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Sarah Mirk discusses Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison with contributors Tracy Chahwan, Gerardo Alba, Alexandra Beguez — hosted by Skylight Books, 6:30 p.m. PT, more info.

Sigrid Nunez discusses What Are You Going Through with Alexander Chee — hosted by Third Place Books, 5 p.m. PT, more info.

Michael Ian Black presents A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son in conversation with Liz Plank — hosted by Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Jami Attenberg discusses All This Could Be Yours with Susan Choi — hosted by Women & Children First, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Chuck Palahniuk discusses The Invention of Sound with Richard Kadrey — hosted by Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters, 7 p.m. PT, more info.

Andrea Hairston discusses Master of Poisons with Susana Morris — hosted by Charis Books & More, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Hannah Abigail Clarke discusses The Scapegracers with Alexis Henderson — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Julian Winters (The Summer of Everything) and Adam Sass (Surrender Your Sons) discuss their new books — hosted by Malaprop's, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil discusses World of Wonders with Margaret Renkl — hosted by Parnassus Books, 6 p.m. CT, more info.

Susanna Kearsley, C.S. Harris, Anna Lee Huber, and Christine Trent celebrate their anthology The Deadly Hours — hosted by Mysterious Galaxy, 7 p.m. PT, more info.

Jamie K. McCallum discusses Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream with Frances Fox Piven — hosted by Literati, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Ashla Lemmie (Fifty Words for Rain), Diane Zinna (The All-Night Sun), David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Winter Counts), Finola Austin (Bronte's Mistress), and more debut authors from 2020 discuss their books and writing process — hosted by Books on the Subway, 8 p.m. ET, more info.

Stacey Abrams, author of Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, joins Raquel Willis in conversation about women and electoral power — hosted by Brooklyn Historical Society, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Yamile Saied Méndez discusses Furia with Chantel Acevedo — hosted by Books & Books, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Robert Michael Pyle (Nature Matrix) and Scott Russell Sanders (The Way of Imagination) discuss their new books — hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company, 5 p.m. PT, more info.

Sophie Yanow discusses The Contradictions with Alison Bechdel — hosted by McNally Jackson, 8 p.m. ET, more info.

Ayad Akhtar discusses Homeland Elegies with Evan Osnos — hosted by Politics & Prose, 8 p.m. ET, more info.

Claudia Rankine discusses Just Us: An American Conversation with Jennifer M. Wilks — hosted by BookPeople, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Helen Macdonald discusses Vesper Flights with Schlitz Audubon Nature Center's Lindsay Obermeier — hosted by Schlitz Audubon Nature Center and Boswell Books, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Michael Ian Black discusses A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son with Molly Jong-Fast — hosted by RJ Julia, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

M.O. Walsh discusses The Big Door Prize with David West Read — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Kerri Arsenault discusses Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains with Lacy Crawford — hosted by Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Jordan Stump, translator of Marie NDiaye's That Time of Year, discusses the book with Imani Perry — hosted by Community Bookstore, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Fariha Róisín discusses her debut novel, Like a Bird, with Zeba Blay — hosted by Loyalty Bookstores, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Yamile Saied Méndez discusses Furia with Candice Montgomery — hosted by Third Place Books, 7 p.m. PT, more info.

Raven Leilani discusses Luster with Rachel Khong — hosted by Warwick's, 4 p.m. PT, more info.

Clarissa Ward discusses On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist with Jane Saks — hosted by the Seminary Co-op and Chicago Humanities Festival, 5 p.m. CT, more info.

Fatimah Asghar discusses her debut poetry collection, If They Come For Us — hosted by Boswell Books, 7:30 p.m. CT, more info.

Salar Abdoh (Out of Mesopotamia) and Dalia Sofer (Man of My Time) discuss their new books, in conversation with Persis Karim — hosted by Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m. ET, more info.

Tiffany D. Jackson discusses Grown with Bethany C. Morrow — hosted by MahoganyBooks, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Khadijah Queen discusses and reads from Anodyne, with Elisa Gabbert — hosted by Women & Children First, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Suzzy Roche discusses The Town Crazy with Meg Wolitzer — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

José Olivarez (Citizen Illegal), Amir Rabiyah (Prayers For My 17th Chromosome), Bridgette Bianca (Be/Trouble), Christopher Rivas, and Jessica Ceballos y Campbell present a poetry night fundraiser — hosted by Art Save the Vote and Skylight Books, 5 p.m. PT, more info.

Mark Oshiro discusses Each of Us a Desert with Kwame Mbalia and Darcie Little Badger — hosted by Astoria Bookshop, 6 p.m. ET, more info.

Makenna Goodman discusses The Shame with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton — hosted by McNally Jackson, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Adam O. Davis celebrates the launch of his poetry collection Index of Haunted Houses with a reading, joined by M. Soledad Caballero, Ann Townsend, and Andrew Seguin — hosted by White Whale Bookstore, 7 p.m. ET, more info.

Eddie R. Cole discusses The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom with Ashley Farmer — hosted by BookPeople, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Tori Eldridge (The Ninja's Blade) and Boyd Morrison (Final Option) discuss their new books — hosted by Murder by the Books, 7 p.m. CT, more info.

Tiffany D. Cross discusses Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy with Elie Mystal — hosted by Powell's, 5 p.m. PT, more info.