Here’s some upcoming fun stuff this week:

* Tonight, Timothy Garten Ash reads from his new book Free World: America, Europe, and the Suprising Future of the West starting at 6:30 at the Kennedy School of Government (sponsored by Harvard Book Store).

* Tomorrow night at 6: 30 Steven Pinker, Atul Gawande, Chet Raymo, Daniel C. Dennett, and Mike O’Connor read selections from and talk about The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 at the First Parish Church in Harvard Square.

* The 28th Annual Antiquarian Book Fair (also the 6th Annual Print Fair across the hall at Hynes). I’ve been for the last few years and it is wonderful. While I cannot afford many of the books, it is cool to see a first edition of Ulysses or Henry David Thoreau’s copy of Leaves of Grass with Whitman’s notes. Here’s a Globe article about it.

* Check the Phoenix for other author readings (I feel conflicted about listing events at other stores)