Your seasonal calendar of events, music, theater, and more.

YA-star author Angie Thomas danced onto the stage at the Wilbur Theatre Thursday night for a conversation with Christina Tucker of the podcast “Unfriendly Black Hotties.”

Elizabeth Barker announced in a letter to members that she plans to step down in March.

Ekua Holmes came late to illustrating children’s books, but her first three have won awards.

Morgan Parker’s new poetry collection is titled “Magical Negro.’’

Elizabeth McCracken’s “Bowlaway’’ is a multigenerational saga that begins with a stranger and her bowling alley.

Geoff Edgers examines the legacy of the crossover hit “Walk This Way.’’

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Andrew Aydin co-wrote the award-winning “March” with his boss, Representative John Lewis.

This is the second film adaptation of the horror story, published in 1983.

The Harvard lecturer’s “Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts’’ has had a rocky launch.

A romance pop-up shop will be open Feb. 12-18 at Bow Market in Somerville’s Union Square.

“Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” a new novel by Marlon James, is steeped in African folklore and myth.

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is facing allegations that she lifted material from other sources for her new book, “Merchants of Truth.”

In her book on American journalism, Jill Abramson offers a big, ambitious chronicle of the past decade, taking a focused look at what has happened in several influential newsrooms.

Satirist Sam Lipsyte’s “Hark’’ takes on the moneyed mindfulness movement.

Narayan Helen Liebenson of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center has written “The Magnanimous Heart.’’

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Over the course of an hour, the Globe found six published authors among the approximately 150 people we asked.

“I believe it will take viewers away to a world they hope will never happen,” the Maine author said.

Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian was held captive for 544 days in an Iranian prison.

Katharine Smyth takes comfort in her favorite book after losing her loving, alcoholic dad.

In her debut novel, Whitney Scharer reimagines the life of photographer Lee Miller and her relationship with Man Ray

He will visit Plainville on Thursday to promote his newest children’s book.

Cambridge author M.T. Anderson was given a lifetime achievement prize; Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes of Cambridge received the Schneider Family Book Award; and Boston’s Ekua Holmes won the Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award.

Mariah who?

A multimedia exhibit at Brandeis’s Rose Art Museum, “A One-Woman Show About Eartha Kitt,” a Lunar New Year Celebration, and more.

Poet and Pulitzer-winning music critic plans to make the case for why poetry matters.

Jim Acosta has some follow-up comments on the Trump administration.

James is working up some new thrills.

The title is ‘‘The Enemy of the People,’’ President Trump’s inflammatory insult for CNN and others whose reporting displeases him.

E.L. James, the author of the blockbuster ‘‘Fifty Shades of Grey’’ trilogy, has an ‘‘erotic love story’’ coming out April 16.

Karen Thompson Walker’s newest book is “The Dreamers.’’

Novelist Min Jin Lee is working on the third installment of her trilogy about Koreans.

Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s novel traces a black father’s push to get his son a medical “demelanization.”

Justin Driver’s latest book is “The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind.”

Samanta Schweblin’s stories nudge us to ask questions whose answers fill us with disquiet.

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The Cambridge novelist tweeted the news.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich has won the France Inter-JDD foreign book prize for the French translation of her book.

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