Upcoming Author Events & Readings
3 upcoming author events and readings from The Next Chapter Books and More, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Thu Oct 15 · 6:30pm
Brendan Donovan discusses his debut memoir HappySad: Getting Over the One That Got Away, which follows him from falling in love and getting engaged at 27 through depression, addiction and recovery, “from therapy and The Biggest Loser to opioids and everything in between.” Donovan is a Boston special education teacher who was a contestant on the show in 2010, and he self-published the book.
Wed Oct 28 · 6:30pm
Martin Swirko discusses and signs All Routes Are Amber: A Soldier's Experience in the Iraq War, which starts with his first days in the Army Reserves in the 1980s and follows the slow administrative process by which he was mobilised into the regular army and sent out. The Next Chapter hosts in Quincy.
Wed Nov 4 · 6:30pm
Katherine A. Sherbrooke discusses her fourth novel, This Much is True, in which a veterinarian on her fifty-eighth birthday recognises her daughter’s future father-in-law from “an incident during high school that changed the trajectory of her life.” Sherbrooke’s Leaving Coy’s Hill was a New York Times notable book and a Massachusetts Book Award finalist, and she chaired GrubStreet’s board. Family counselor and novelist Lynne Reeves Griffin joins her.
