TUESDAY

Roger Lowenstein (above, “America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve’’) reads at 6 p.m. in the Abbey Room, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston. . . . Paul Ringel (“Commercializing Childhood: Children’s Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the Child Consumer in the United States, 1823-1918’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books in Cambridge.

THURSDAY

Greg Jobin-Leeds (“When We Fight, We Win! Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World’’) reads along with Deymirie Hernández, José Jorge Díaz, and other contributors at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. . . . Emily Ross (“Half in Love With Death’’) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books in Cambridge.

FRIDAY

Jane Brox (“Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light’’) and Tracey Baptiste (“The Jumbies’’) read at 5 p.m. at Lesley University’s Marran Theater, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge . . . Freda Love Smith (“Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir, With Recipes’’) in conversation with Juliana Hatfield at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge.

SATURDAY

ZZ Packer (“Drinking Coffee Elsewhere’’) reads at 6:30 p.m. at Lesley University’s Marran Theater, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge.

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