Upcoming Author Events & Readings
11 upcoming author events and readings from Belmont Books, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Tue Oct 6 · 6:00pm
A launch party for The Witch, the new novel from Freida McFadden, whose thriller The Housemaid, about a woman just out of prison who takes a live-in job with a wealthy family, grew into a bestselling series and a 2025 film. McFadden is also a practising physician specialising in brain injury. The $36 ticket includes a signed hardcover to collect at the party, with swag while it lasts.
$36, including a signed hardcover
Tue Oct 6 · 7:00pm
Min Jin Lee, who wrote Pachinko, discusses her new book American Hagwon with Ilyon Woo, who won the Pulitzer for Master Slave Husband Wife. Belmont Books hosts it at the First Parish meeting house in Harvard Square rather than in the shop.
Sat Oct 10 · 10:00am
Inbal Alon reads two of her picture books: Maddy's Towers, about a girl whose best friend breaks her trust at school and how slowly that trust is rebuilt, and The Whys Get in Trouble, about Naomi, whose endless questions keep landing her in trouble in class. Alon taught first grade for twelve years and is now a school librarian in Cambridge.
Thu Oct 15 · 7:00pm
Four novelists talk about new books centred on women who will not accept the status quo: Tara Badstubner's Every Room Remembers, about grief and the part the natural world plays in healing; Liz Collins' Whalespeak, about a long-distance swimmer with an uncanny connection to whales; Carol Hoenig's The Liberation of Jan; and a fourth new novel from the panel's remaining author.
Fri Oct 16 · 7:00pm
Ethan Tapper, who has worked as Chittenden County's forester in Vermont, discusses The Forest Year, billed as “a forest almanac for our time, rooted in a full year observing a rural woodland and its birds.” His first book, How to Love a Forest, set out what the shop calls “a pragmatic and hopeful vision for our relationship with forests and other ecosystems.”
Wed Oct 21 · 7:00pm
Dustin Renwick discusses The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2026, guest-edited by José Andrés, alongside his own book S'mores. The anthology ranges from Gaza to France to Blue Ridge, Georgia, with work by Priya Krishna, Ligaya Mishan, Dan Kois, Jordan Kisner, Lauren Collins and Lauren Oyler.
Thu Oct 22 · 7:00pm
Lara Salahi discusses News–Academic Partnerships, her study of what happens when newsrooms and universities work together. Drawing on a political-economy framework and case studies, she examines the power between media, academia and the public, and shows how such partnerships arose as a strategic response to the collapse of community news. Dan Kennedy, the Northeastern journalism professor and author of The Return of the Moguls, joins her.
Wed Nov 4 · 7:00pm
Kathryn Silver-Hajo discusses Spinning: Love, Family and Other Strange Entanglements, her new story collection, with the flash fiction writer Claudia Monpere. Silver-Hajo is the author of the flash collection Wolfsong and the young adult novel Roots of the Banyan Tree, a 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medalist. Monpere, who won the 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize, is the author of the flash collection The Periodic Family.
Mon Nov 9 · 7:00pm
Kasey Lansdale discusses her debut novel First Chance, which introduces Chance Kirby, a former journalist turned private investigator in Hopeful, Texas. Her first case, the unsolved killing of a client's sister, uncovers a string of young women murdered the same way. Lansdale, a singer-songwriter and the daughter of the novelist Joe R. Lansdale, is joined by Christopher Golden, the Massachusetts horror writer whose Ararat won the Bram Stoker Award.
Tue Nov 10 · 7:00pm
Alyson Mosquera DuTemple discusses her debut story collection, in which an amateur herpetologist is swindled by women he meets on lizard-care message boards and a dental hygienist makes a doomed trip to a sham psychic on the Atlantic City boardwalk. DuTemple's stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and Colorado Review. Leah de Forest, who teaches fiction at the Harvard Extension School, joins her.
Mon Nov 16 · 7:00pm
Joanne Chang discusses The Joy of Cookies: New Classics and Old Favorites to Share, which opens with answers to basic baking questions and then sorts its recipes by kind, from drop cookies and bars to sandwich and savory cookies such as Parmesan Chive Coins. Chang founded the Flour bakeries in Boston, co-owns the restaurant Myers+Chang, and won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker in 2016.
