Literary Happenings: 7/28-8/2

Where has the summer gone?  Make the most of what remains by attending events put on by some of our favorite bookish locations!

Monday July 28

• Brookline Booksmith: Benoit Denizet-Lewis's Travels with Casey, 7 pm.
• Harvard Book Store: The Harvard Square Book Circle discusses Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel, 7 pm.

Tuesday July 29

• Boston Public Library: Story Time: Science Behind the Story (Children), 10:30am.
• Harvard Book Store: Mark Epstein reads from The Trauma of Everyday Life, 7 pm.
• Porter Square Books: Rebecca Gordon on Mainstreaming Torture, 7 pm.
• Newtonville Books: Celeste Ng on Everything I Never Told You:  A Novel and David Ryan on Animals in Motion: Stories, 7 pm.

Wednesday July 30

• Boston Public Library: Imagine Your Future Writing Workshop (Teen), 11 am.
• Brookline Booksmith: Amy Bloom's Lucky Us, 7 pm.
• Harvard Book Store: Stephen L. Carter reads from Back Channel: A Novel, 7 pm.
• Newtonville Books: Susan Mizruchi on Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work and Lucas Mann on Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere, 7 pm.

Thursday July 31

• Boston Public Library: Teen Book of the Month, The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart, 3 pm. Harry Potter Science Party, 3:30 pm (groups call ahead).
• Brookline Booksmith: Find Waldo Local Fete, 3-5pm.
• Porter Square Books: Where's Waldo Party, 5 pm. Suzanne Strempek Shea's This Is Paradise, 7 pm.

Friday August 1

• Noah Levine's Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction, 7 pm.
• Harvard Book Store: Fiction Fridays! All day.
• Porter Square Books: Nell Burnstein's Burning Down the House, 7 pm.

Saturday August 2

• Boston Public Library: City-Wide Friends Book Sale, 10 am.