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This week in virtual book events: Feb. 1–7

Monday, Feb. 1

Samantha Power discusses The Education of an Idealist with Laura Dern — hosted by William Morrow and multiple participating bookstores, 6 p.m. ET. $23.25. More info.
Gabriel Bump discusses Everywhere You Don't Belong with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah — hosted by Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m. ET. More info.
Emily Rapp Black discusses Sanctuary with Joanna Rakoff — hosted by Brookline Booksmith, 7 p.m. ET. More info.

Tuesday, Feb. 2

Kristin Hannah discusses The Four Winds with Jess Walter — hosted by Politics & Prose, 6 p.m. ET. More info.
Lauren Oyler discusses Fake Accounts with Emily Gould — hosted by McNally Jackson, 7 p.m. ET. More info.
Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies), Colette Sartor (Once Removed), and Sejal Shah (This Is One Way to Dance) discuss publishing short stories and essay collections with small presses — hosted by Skylight Books, 5:30 p.m. PT. More info.

Wednesday, Feb. 3

Koa Beck discusses White Feminism with Claire Messud — hosted by Skylight Books, 6:30 p.m. PT.More info.
Jane Harper (The Survivors) and Greer Hendricks (You Are Not Alone) discuss their latest thrillers — hosted by Murder by the Book, 7 p.m. CT. More info.
Amanda Lovelace reads from and discusses Shine Your Icy Crown with Summer Webb — hosted by One More Page Books, 7 p.m. ET. More info.

Thursday, Feb. 4

Hilton Als and Jia Tolentino discuss Joan Didion's Let Me Tell You What I Mean — hosted by Writers Bloc, 5 p.m. PT. More info.
Edward Carey (The Swallowed Man) and Gregory Maguire (A Wild Winter Swan) discuss their latest novels — hosted by BookPeople, 7 p.m. CT. More info.
Isabel Ibañez (Written in Starlight) and Joanna Ruth Meyer (Into the Heartless Wood) discuss their latest books — hosted by Mysterious Galaxy, 7 p.m. PT.More info.

Friday, Feb. 5

Catherine Cohen discusses God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town with Jordan Firstman — hosted by Books & Books, 7 p.m. ET. More info.
Lauren Groff (Florida; Fates and Furies) discusses the structure of fiction with Maria Semple (Where'd You Go, Bernadette) — hosted by the Hugo House, 6 p.m. PT. $15. More info.
Colleen Hoover discusses Layla with Brittainy Cherry — hosted by Brookline Booksmith, 7 p.m. ET. More info

Saturday, Feb. 6

Rebecca Carroll discusses Surviving the White Gaze with Gabrielle Union — hosted by the LA Times, 5:30 p.m. PT. $5. More info.
Chang-Rae Lee discusses My Year Abroad with R.O. Kwon — hosted by Book Passage, 4 p.m. PT. More info.
A panel on Texas cozy mysteries featuring Amber Royer, Rebecca Adler, Wendy Lyn Watson, Melissa Ramirez (aka Melissa Bourbon and Winnie Archer), and Diane Kelly — hosted by Murder by the Book, 7 p.m. CT. More info.

Sunday, Feb. 7

Brandon Hobson discusses The Removed — hosted by Bookworks, 3 p.m. MT. More info.
Kiley Reid discusses Such a Fun Age and chats with readers — hosted by the Fairfax County Public Library, 2 p.m. ET. More info.