TRACY CHEVALIER >> Bestselling author brings her new novel, “The Glassmaker,” to Talk of the Stacks presented by Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Chevalier, who loves Venice and wanted to get to know it better, discovered that glass has been made for centuries on Murano, an island just off the coast of Venice where for a long time beads were the only glass objects women could make, so she focuses on a fictional woman and her glassmaking family. The story moves from Renaissance-era Italy to the present day. Chevalier has written 11 novels, including “Girl With a Pearl Earring.” 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 27, Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. Free. In-person tickets are all taken; sign up for Zoom access at info.supporthclib.org.

DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT >> Award-winning Minnesotan reads from “Man in the Water,” latest in his series featuring unofficial P.I. Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie, whose wife finds a body half in the water, frozen to a ladder at a marina on the St. Croix River. 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 25, Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 S. Snelling Ave., St. Paul.

JOSEPH KUEFLER >> Minnesota author/illustrator hosts a story time celebrating “The Digger and the Dark,” fourth in his popular Digger series. In this one Digger and the other big trucks, including Crane and Sweeps, are ready to tuck themselves into bed but two wide-awake, mischievous raccoons have other ideas. 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 29, Red Balloon Bookshop, 891 Grand Ave., St. Paul.

PATRICK NATHAN >> Minnesotan discusses his new novel, “The Future Was Color,” about a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack in post-World War II Hollywood, navigating the McCarthy-era studio system and living the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard. When his friend, a famous actress, offers him a writing residency at her Malibu estate, his world is blown open. This will be a live radio interview with Josh Weber, host of Write On Radio. 6 p.m. doors open; 7 p.m. program. Tuesday, June 25, Gray Duck Tavern, 345 N. Wabasha St., St. Paul, presented by SubText Books.

POETRY AND JAZZ >> Fourth annual Poetry and Jazz in the Holy Ground featuring the jazz duo of Larry McDonough and Richard Terrill, as well as the launch of the poetry chapbook “The Nations Underground: Writing With Our Ancestors” with more than a dozen area poets reading from the book along with featured poets Margaret Hasse, Patrick Cabello Hansel and Dralandra Larkins. Hands-on lantern-making workshop led by local artists from the Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts. Presented by the Semilla Center and Not Dead Yet Poets Society. Free. 2 p.m. Saturday, June 29, Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery, 2945 Cedar Ave., Mpls.

GABRIELLE ZEVIN >> Celebrates publication of the paperback edition of her novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” which sold more than a million copies since the widely praised hardcover was published two years ago. It’s the story of three young people who meet as college students and design popular video games that bring them fame, joy and tragedy in the next 30 years. In conversation with Minnesotan Antonia Angress, author of “Sirens & Muses.” 7 p.m. Friday, June 28, Parkway Theater, 4814 Chicago Ave., Mpls., presented by Magers & Quinn. $27-$37. Ticket information at theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/gabrielle-zevin.

— Mary Ann Grossmann