The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics hosts Alan Hirshfeld for a special Monthly Observatory Night lecture and reading from Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe.

Politics & Prose Bookstore hosts a discussion with Jonathan D. Moreno about Impromptu Man: J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network.

Partners Village Store welcomes Alan Hirshfeld for a booksigning and reading from Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe.

NYU Bookstore hosts a special conversation between Jonathan D. Moreno and Arthur L. Caplan about Impromptu Man: J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network.

The Kenyon Review welcomes Sharona Muir, who will read from her new novel Invisible Beasts.

McNally Jackson hosts a conversation between Eduardo Halfon and Anderson Tepper of Vanity Fair about Halfon’s new novel Monastery.

Sharona Muir, author of Invisible Beasts, joins Peyton Marshall (Goodhouse) for a special double author event at Newtonville Books.

The New Hampshire Institute of Art presents Eduardo Halfon, author of Monastery and The Polish Boxer, for a Visiting Writers Series special event.

Words without Borders presents a night of Guatemalan fiction at The Community Bookstore with Eduardo Halfon, author of Monastery and The Polish Boxer, Rodrigo Fuentes, and moderator Idra Novey.

The Astronomical Society of Southern New England (ASSNE) hosts Alan Hirshfeld for a lecture and reading from Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe.

Tim Horvath, the author of Understories, joins Eric Shonkwiler (Above All Men) and Nathan Graziano (My Next Bad Decision) for a special triple author event at Gibson’s Bookstore.

Brookline Booksmith presents John Darnielle, author of Wolf in White Van, in conversation with Tim Horvath, author of Understories, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre.

Tim Horvath, the author of Understories, joins Jeffrey Friedman, Ann Hood, Leslie Jamison, Pamela Painter, and Nick Sansone for Flashing Lights: A Flash Fiction event at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, hosted by Tara Laskowski.

Sharona Muir, author of Invisible Beasts, joins Catherine Lacey (Nobody Is Ever Missing), Kimberly Elkins (What Is Visible), Raj Karamchedu (All Things Unforgiven), and Mike Meginnis (Fat Man and Little Boy) for a Brooklyn Book Festival special event featuring readings from five of the year’s most impressive debut novelists.

Please join Bellevue Literary Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Visit us in booth 413, which we’ll be sharing with our sister organization The Bellevue Literary Review, to meet author Sharona Muir and find great deals on all of our books.

Tim Horvath, the author of Understories, joins Arna Bontemps Hemenway (Elegy on Kinderklavier), Shya Scanlon (The Guild of St. Cooper); and Erika Wurth (Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend) for a special a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event, “The Short Story: A Celebration of Fiction’s Underrepresented Form,” at Smack Mellon.

The Mark Twain House & Museum presents Norman Lock, reading from The Boy in His Winter, in the BOOK/MARK series.

The Nantucket Book Festival presents “four of our newest and yet most celebrated writers—Molly Antopol, Cynthia Bond, Tim Horvath, and Anthony Marra—discuss[ing] their work with journalist and writer Michael Schulder. This highly anticipated session will offer readers an introduction to the next generation of extraordinary authors and literature, as they explain to their audience why you should ‘steal their book.’”

BOMB magazine launches its Summer issue at Greenlight Bookstore with reading by contributors Michael Coffey (The Business of Naming Things), Donald Breckenridge, Corina Copp, Steve Dalachinsky, Vincent Katz, and Andrew Lampert, with a reception to follow.

Please join the Newtonville Bookclub for a discussion of Palmerino by Melissa Pritchard.

Melissa Pritchard discusses the life of Vernon Lee and reads from her new novel Palmerino at The British Institute of Florence. This special lecture will be held in the Sala Ferragamo in the Harold Acton Library and followed by an informal drinks reception.

Tim Horvath, author of Understories, joins David Kalish (The Opposite of Everything) for a special double author event at Newtonville Books.

Please join Bellevue Literary Press and other independent publishers for the PEN World Voices Festival and Literary Mews book fair, nestled among the cobblestone streets of NYU’s storied Washington Mews. Meet our editorial staff, find great deals on all of our books, and enjoy the place where “global bazaar meets county fair at th[e] second annual festival within the Festival.”

Melissa Pritchard will read from her new novel Palmerino at the launch party for issue #13 of the Superstition Review. During the party, guests will also have free access to the Mesa Arts Center museum, and Superstition Review editors will speak of the work that went into producing issue #13, and discuss their favorite pieces of art, fiction, interviews, nonfiction, and poetry featured in its pages.

Bellevue Literary Press Publisher and Editorial Director Erika Goldman joins NYU faculty and editors from W.W. Norton and Farrar, Strauss and Giroux for conversations about how to break out of the academic model and write for a broader audience. This event is co-sponsored with the New York Institute for the Humanities and will be moderated by the Institute’s Director, Eric Banks and Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian Studies and Faculty Director of the Humanities Initiative.