WEDNESDAY: Alison Bechdel ('Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama') reads at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street ($5 tickets at Harvard Book Store) ' David Rees ('How To Sharpen Pencils') reads at 7 p.m. at

Brookline Booksmith ' Michael Olson ('Strange Flesh') reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop ' Rebecca Lindenberg ('Love An Index') and Stephen Burt ('Parallel Play Poems') read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ' Elizabeth Percer ('An Uncommon Education') reads at 7 p.m. at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street

THURSDAY: Kelsey Banfield ('The Naptime Chef: Fitting Great Food into Family Life') reads at 3 p.m. at J. McLaughlin, 12 Church Street, Wellesley (RSVP to events@mazzpr.com or 212.755.2100) ' Caitrin Lynch ('Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory') reads at 5:30 p.m. at Olin College's Milas Hall Auditorium), 1000 Olin Way, Needham ' Chad Harbach ('The Art of Fielding ') reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ' Dawn M. Skorczewski ('An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton') reads at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop ' Deborah Copaken Kogan ('The Red Book') reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ' Rosie Sultan ('Helen Keller in Love') reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books ' Delia Ephron ('The Lion Is In') reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith

FRIDAY: Kenneth W. Mack ('Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer') reads at 3 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ' Luong Ung ('Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness') reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store ' Ace Atkins and Joan Parker (Robert B. Parker's 'Lullaby') read at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books ' Myfanwy Collins ('Echolocation'), Carroll Donnell ('The Donnie Wahlberg Drinking Game'), Joel Peckham ('Movers-Shakers'), and Yuyutsu Sharma ('Milarepa's Bones') read at 8 p.m. at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge