Take a ride down memory lane with Shawn Driscoll, author of “We Are But Your Children: An Oral History of the Nightclub ManRay” and a panel of guests tonight at the Cambridge Main Library.

Pandemic conditions make for a bad moment to reopen ManRay in Central Square but an ideal time to read “We Are But Your Children: An Oral History of the Nightclub ManRay,” assembled out of conversations with 120 regulars at the legendary nightclub.

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong comes to the Cambridge Public Library on Monday – online – for a conversation with Harvard’s Courtney Sato about her “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.”

Who knew Cambridge had so many places to donate books? Well, New York-based In the Book did. It built a map to prove it.

There are letters from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere and Margaret Fuller in the archives of the Cambridge Public Library, and now one from 1890 by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – and library staff is delighted, even if the letter itself is a bit of a dis.

At a time the Harvard Book Store has already reported struggling with sales down significantly compared with any period before the coronavirus pandemic, Wednesday brought another blow: A closing to sanitize the Harvard Square space after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19.

The fun of Chuck Latovich’s thriller “The Girl in the Boston Box” goes way beyond a savvy dissection of South End real estate and dead accurate descriptions of T travel from Harvard Square to Fenway Park. The book is slick and sophisticated, with plenty of pleasantly electric shocks.

The message of “Ten Thousand Shells & Counting,” Nadija Mujagić’s pricelessly intimate account of coming of age in bullet-riddled Sarajevo, is not that war brings out the extraordinary in people, but that it obliterates the ordinary.

Rodney’s Bookstore is moving from its spot in Central Square because its lease is up, not closing from the impact of coronavirus, the owner says.

Porter Square Books has gone the extra mile to keep in touch with customers during coronavirus quarantining, with a “daily-ish” newsletter, a personalized book recommendation service and livestream events such as bedtime stories, “Poetry Karaoke” and “PSB Cribs.”