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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 May 2017

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 The Hub of Literary America Walking Tour Jeff VanderMeer for “Borne”	2 Life of a Klansman: Writer Edward Ball Digs into His Family History Podcast Launch Party at Liberty Hotel Boston	3 A Modern Taste of Ancient Rome How to Teach Shakespreare to Children	4 Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy	5 RICHARD FORD in conversation with CHRISTOPHER LYDON The Dire Literary Series LIDIA YUKNAVITCH – The Book of Joan	6	7
8 ELIZABETH STROUT in Conversation with ANDRE DUBUS III in Brookline Remembering PHILLIS WHEATLEY RICHARD RUSSO Trajectory: Stories	9 RAKESH SATYAL’s new novel: No One Can Pronounce My Name	10 Author Talk: French Cartoonist Sandrine Revel Playing the Ponies and Other Medical Mysteries Solved	11 “Changing of the Bard”: An Evening of Poetry in Brookline The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century	12 The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family	13 French Cultural Center’s Biannual Library Book Sale J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN in conversation with MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN	14 Authors Stephen Kennedy Smith and Douglas Brinkley discuss JFK’s vision for America with Samantha Power and Ron Suskind, moderated by Fredrik Logevall
15 DENNIS LEHANE reads from his new novel: Since We Fell	16 Cave Dwellers at Brookline Booksmith GrubStreet Summer 2017 Open House and Showcase	17 Said Not Said: Poetry Reading and Reception with FRED MARCHANT	18 COLM TOIBIN — House of Names: A Novel	19 Boston Write-In at the Boston Public Library	20 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta An Afternoon with Granta Magazine: Best of Young American Novelists	21
22 SARAH PRAGER: Queer, There, & Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World DANI SHAPIRO at Brookline Booksmith	23	24 MAXIM D SHRAYER – Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges & Refused to Give Up	25 Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, & Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas	26 Wolf Hunt: Fiction, Translation: Translator Angela Rodel in conversation with Claire Messud	27	28
29	30 GrubStreet’s Short Story Incubator Open House & Info Session A True Tale of Love and Survival in the Amazon	31 JILL LEPORE on “Joe Gould’s Teeth” MAX WINTER and DAISY JOHNSON at Brookline Booksmith

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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.