Upcoming Author Events & Readings
4 upcoming author events and readings from Weymouth Public Libraries, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Tue Oct 13 · 7pm
Poet Matthew E. Henry reads from Promises to Keep (Wayfarer Books, 2026), a series of persona poems in the voices of a modern prophet, his family and God, in which the prophet “attempts to speak truth to power about immigration, LGBTQAI+ rights, poverty, racism” and more. Henry, author of seven poetry collections, is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and a poetry editor at American Poetry Journal.
Thu Oct 22 · 7pm
Chad Anctil talks about his writing and Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law, the second book in his Providence Supernatural Crimes Unit series, out October 20, in which “a string of demonic possessions” pushes a secret Providence police unit into “an uneasy alliance with the church.” Anctil, who grew up in Rhode Island, served as a Navy electronics engineer on submarines in the 1990s.
Tue Nov 17 · 7pm
Co-authors Randy Cogill and Tripp Underwood discuss Have a Cheap Day, their coffee-table book collecting the best Building 19 advertisements of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. The two Gen X friends trace the story of the discount store, which began as a salvage business in an old warehouse, drawing on the people who shaped it, among them one of the brand’s key architects, who became their friend.
Wed Dec 2 · 7pm
Katherine A. Sherbrooke discusses her latest novel, This Much Is True, in which Veronica Harmon learns that the man at the center of a traumatic incident from her high school days is the father of her daughter’s fiancé. Sherbrooke is the author of Leaving Coy’s Hill, a New York Times notable book and Massachusetts Book Award finalist, and chaired GrubStreet’s board from 2013 to 2023.
