Wednesday January 7th 7pm
Benoit Denizet-Lewis - America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life

Boston ’s own Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a contributing writer with the New York Times Magazine who speaks nationally on youth culture, addiction, sex and sexuality. His first book, America Anonymous, is a probing, entertaining and unfailingly humane look into the lives of eight people addicted to everything from shoplifting to steroids.

Thursday January 8th 7pm
James Boice - NoVa

26-year-old Cambridge-based novelist and Esquire contributing writer James Boice has been featured in both McSweeney’s and Fiction magazines – and he’s already on his second novel. NoVa is a darkly funny book about suicide and suburban malaise. It’s no wonder that Chuck Klosterman has called it “an astounding synthesis of reality, imagination, and psychological clarity.”

Wednesday January 14th 7pm

Jerome Groopman
Gareth Cook

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008

The ever-inspiring doctor and bestselling author Jerome Groopman has culled the cream of the crop in science and nature writing for the year.  He heads what will undoubtedly be an informative and entertaining night with the Globe’s Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist Gareth Cook.

Thursday January 15th 7pm
Wafaa Bilal - Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun

In his web installation “Domestic Tension,” Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal put himself in front of a video camera with a paintball gun and enabled users to shoot him, a project for which the Chicago Tribune named him Artist of the Year. In Shoot an Iraqi, the world-famous artist writes about a childhood under Saddam Hussein, his internment in refugee camps and his brother’s death at the hand of a faceless U.S. soldier. Join us for a multimedia presentation of this work.

Thursday January 22nd 7pm
Christopher Monks - The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life: Or, the Video Game as Existential Metaphor
Ben Greenman - Superbad
Dan Kennedy - Rock On!

Christopher Monks is the editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a denizen of Cambridge, and the man responsible for the blog Utter Wonders. He’s here to celebrate the release of his first book, the hilarious (and unclassifiable) The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life. Joining him are Ben Greenman, acclaimed fiction writer and an editor at the New Yorker, and Dan Kennedy, the widely-anthologized humorist and former major label exec.

Thursday January 29th 7pm

Samuel Shem - The Spirit of the Place

Monday February 2 7PM
Dalton Conley - Elsewhere, U.S.A.

Did you think checking your email in the checkout line wasn’t rupturing the fabric of society? The award-winning social scientist and author of Honky, Dalton Conley, is here to set you straight. His new work explains how the shift from the Man in the Grey Flannel Suit to the Dude in the Grey Sweatpants has altered American society.

Tuesday February 3 7PM
Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser - Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak

Hot on the heels of the bestselling, hilarious and affecting Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs By Writers Famous and Obscure, the editors of SMITH magazine have returned with an equally awesome collection of what NPR has called “simple yet profound brevity.” Six word endorsement: this book rocks.

Wednesday February 4 7PM
Amélie Nothomb - Tokyo Fiancée

Meet international literary sensation Amélie Nothomb and Europa Editions’ Editor-in-Chief Michael Reynolds. They’re in Brookline to celebrate the release of Nothomb’s latest novel, Tokyo Fiancée, the funny, moving tale of a young language teacher who falls in love with her Japanese student.

Monday February 9 7PM
Adam Gopnik - Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life  

Adam Gopnik, New Yorker scribe and author of Paris to the Moon, explores the connection between the two most important Americans born on February 12, 1809. With his signature wit and style, Adam illuminates the real lives behind the names Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.

Tuesday February 10 7PM
Alan Wolfe - The Future of Liberalism

What would John Stuart Mill have to say about Obama’s stance on immigration? Alan Wo lfe, professor of political science at Boston College, has something to say about it. With The Future of Liberalism, the Brookline-based, nationally renowned scholar offers a persuasive, trenchant defense of the liberal tradition and makes a compelling argument for its sustained future.

Wednesday February 11 7PM
G. Xavier Robillard - Captain Freedom: A Superhero’s Quest For Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves

Young Bostonian satirist G. Xavier Robillard visits the Booksmith to read from his lively debut. Christopher Moore puts it best: “Captain Freedom is a truly funny and energetic romp of a social satire, a terrific send up of not only of superheroes, but the cult of personality in general. G. Xavier Robillard isn't stingy with the ideas.”

Thursday February 12 7PM
Vicki Croke and Sarah Wilson - Dogology: What Your Relationship With Your Dog Reveals About You

Now’s your chance to bring your dog to a reading! Former Globe columnist Vicki Croke covered Boston’s animal beat for thirteen years and now reports for NECN TV on animal issues. Sarah Wilson, dog trainer extraordinaire, has been on radio, television, and in print for over twenty years. Who better to tell us why we pick the dogs we do?

Monday February 16 7pm

Kathleen Rooney - Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object

Kyle Minor - In The Devil’s Territory

Steve Almond - (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions

Tuesday February 17 7PM
Brian Evenson - The Open Curtain

Brian Evenson, Chair of the Literary Arts program at Brown University, holds the rare distinction of having left Brigham Young University because of the controversy surrounding his first novel. His latest tale, the story of two teens researching a murder committed by Joseph Smith’s grandson, is a gripping thriller about a controversial page in Mormon history.

Wednesday February 18 7PM
Ruth Nemzoff - Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How To Foster Rewarding Relationships With Your Adult Children

Navigating the waters of being a parent for your adult children can be a tricky business. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, a leading expert in family dynamics, is here to help. She’ll share the years of knowledge she has gleaned through personal experience and coaching to advise you how to manage the challenges you’ll face and, most importantly, how to speak up.

Thursday February 19 7PM
Hallie Ephron - Never Tell a Lie 

What happens when an award-winning Boston Globe reviewer of mystery novels writes a mystery novel herse lf? Join On Crime columnist Hallie Ephron and find out. Never Tell a Lie is a book of psychological suspense that would rank high in Hallie’s indispensable guide, 1001 Books For Every Mood.

Tuesday February 24 7PM
Ulrich Boser - The Gardner Heist

A book about the biggest art heist in history was long overdue. Now, reporter Ulrich Boser investigates the unsolved break-in at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, picking up where the crime’s top investigator left off. Join him as he uncovers a world as colorful as the stolen work.

Wednesday February 25 7PM
Eugene Mirman - The Will To Whatevs

Genius comedians rarely deign to step foot in bookstores. Yet somehow, among innumerable standup appearances, a recurring role as the landlord on “Flight of the Conchords” and frequent guest spots at Somerville’s rollicking Union Square Round Table, Eugene Mirman has written a self-help book which he has no choice but to promote.

Thursday February 26 7PM
Sara Houghteling - Pictures at an Exhibition

Sara Houghteling – born and raised in Brookline – has written a debut novel worthy of her hometown. Pictures At An Exhibition follows the true story of a Parisian Jew who returns from hiding to discover that his family’s priceless art has disappeared during the Nazi occupation. You won’t want to miss this formidable new talent.