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Never a dull literary moment in Boston! To scratch your literary itch and become an active participant in the best literary community in the country, click on any event in the calendar in order to hyperlink to more information.The events take place both within the Lit District’s borders and outside. OOD means the event is Out Of District.

Events for April 2017

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
					1 Marathon reading of IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston	2 Marathon reading of IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
3 STEPH BURT on How to Read Poetry	4 Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas Reading and Writing in the Age of Trump	5 GrubStreet’s Write Down the Street: The Stories of Your Life	6 Desperately Seeking Shakespeare- Lowell Lecture CAMILLE PAGLIA Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston The Arlington Author Salon with MICHAEL BLANDING, ELIZABETH SEARLE, and JESSICA TREADWAY Orlando by Virginia Woolf, adapted by Sarah Ruhl	7 On Literary Translation: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin at Boston University Dire Literary Series with Alden Jones, Louie Cronin and Georgia Park Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston	8 Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston	9 Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston LINDY WEST at Papercuts J.P.
10 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta	11 GrubStreet’s FREE Brown Bag Lunch Writing Series	12 JOHN WATERS Makes Trouble with CHRIS CASTELLANI Letters to a Young Writer by COLUM MCCANN The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family	13 Rocket Girls at Newtonville Books Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston Award Winning Poet Tom Sleigh reads with BU MFA alum Laura Marris	14 On Literary Translation: Alissa Valles, Martha Collins, and Kevin Prufer at Boston University Wilde Opera Nights: The Dwarf (Der Zwerg) Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston	15 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston	16
17 The Leavers: A Novel	18 Top Chef’s BARBARA LYNCH at Harvard Book Store	19	20 Elizabeth Warren at Harvard Book Store	21	22	23
24 NOAM CHOMSKY in conversation with AMY GOODMAN in Cambridge	25 CRYSTAL KING Reads from Feast of Sorrow MARY GAITSKILL at Harvard Book Store	26 National touring Spoken Word & Acoustic Show	27 National touring Spoken Word & Acoustic Show SHERYL SANDBERG and ADAM GRANT discuss “OPTION B” Stories Under the Stars at the Museum of Science	28	29 Independent Bookstore Day Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Pachinko author MIN JIN LEE at Papercuts JP & La Rana Rossa	30

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.