Spring is almost here and things are picking up a little at our local booksellers. Here are some March 2012 bookstore events that looked interesting to me for one reason or another.

Barnes & Noble
03/04 Il Volo (86th & Lex)
03/06 Mayim Bialik: Beyond the Sling (6 PM Tri)
03/06 Kristi Yamaguchi: It’s a Big World, Little Pig! (11:30 AM TRI)
03/07 Sarah Vowell: Unfamiliar Fishes (USQ)
03/07 Gail Simmons, Tom Colicchhio: Talking with My Mouth Full (86th & Lex)
03/08 Leslie Uggams: Uptown Downtown (86th & Lex)
03/08 Emma Straub, Stephin Merritt: Other People We Married (USQ)
03/08 Alexandra Styron: Reading My Father (82nd & Bway)
03/14 Luc Carl: The Drunk Diet (Tri)
03/19 Jonah Lehrer: Imagine (USQ)
03/21 Kevin Smith: Tough Sh*t Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good (USQ)
03/26 The Cast of The Buried Life: The Buried Life (USQ)
03/27 Deborah Feldman: Unorthodox (86th & Lex)
03/28 Karen Gravano: Mob Daughter (SI)
03/29 Rachel Maddow: Drift (USQ)
03/30 Linda Ramone, Tommy Ramone, John Cafiero: Commando: The Autobiography Of Johnny Ramone (Tri)

BookCourt
03/01 Ellen Ullman
03/02 Pamela Druckerman
03/07 Nathan Englander
03/08 Deborah Feldman
03/09 Patrick Dewitt
03/14 Kristen Johnston
03/16 Mike Doughty
03/22 Joshua Foer
03/25 Alexander Hemon & Nicole Krauss
03/26 Joshua Knelman
03/27 Steve Erickson

Housing Works
03/05 A Taste of Home
03/12 McSweeney’s Presents Diane Williams, Ben Marcus, and Deb Olin Unferth
03/13 The Moth StorySLAM. Theme: Marriage
03/21 The New Yiderati: Redefining the Jewish Experience in Literature
03/22 The Moth StorySLAM. Theme: Kiss of Death
03/26 A WILD Night with Sugar and The Rumpus (Sold Out)
03/27 Patti Smith with Glenn Kurtz, presented with McNally Jackson

McNally Jackson
03/14 Real Characters w/Mike Doughty, Simon Doonan, Jullianne Smolinski, Steve Zimmer, Colin Nissan
03/20 Hari Kunzru in conversation with James Surowiecki
03/25 Black Clock: with Rick Moody, Anthony Miller, Geoffrey O’Brien, Kyra Simone, Lynne Tillman and Steve Erickson