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Events for June 2017

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
			1 Going to the Chapel and Staying Married Memoirs on Mortality and Murder at Brookline Booksmith Centennial Celebration of the Women’s National Book Association with Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author, Megan Marshall	2 Wilde Opera Nights: Patience Odyssey Opera Continues “Wilde Opera Night” Series June 2nd and 3rd	3	4 DAVID SEDARIS- Theft by Finding
5 Queering Literature: A Pride Panel	6 JESSAMYN STANLEY, author of Every Body Yoga, Interviewed by ROBIN YOUNG HALLIE EPHRON – You’ll Never Know, Dear	7 Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, & the Battle Over Civil Rights	8 “It’s Alive!” Frankenstein’s Lessons for Scientists and Creators PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, Author of Priestdaddy	9	10 One Nation, Indeterminable One Nation, Indeterminable: A Theatrical Response to the Current National Climate	11
12 Writing Hard Stories: Memoirists in Conversation	13 Cambridge Forum: Rwandan Women Rising All About Travel Writing at Harvard Bookstore	14 ROXANE GAY reads from her book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Reads at Newtonville Books The Chalk Artist at Porter Square Books	15 ALEXANDRA FULLER reads from her novel, Quiet Until the Thaw Celebrating Gay Pride with “The Boys in the Band” JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER at the Brattle Theatre Drunk Crosswords at Brookline Booksmith	16 101 Things That Piss Me Off at Brookline Booksmith	17 Misunderstood: Inverting the Workshop Model	18 A Home for Every Writer
19 JULIA FIERRO, author of The Gypsy Moth Summer, in conversation with JOANNA RAKOFF NYTBR Editor PAMELA PAUL On Her “Book of Books”	20 ARUNDHATI ROY – Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Novel Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War Novelist ANITA DIAMANT discusses her newest nonfiction	21 Authors AKHIL SHARMA and BILL ROORBACK present their short story collections No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities are Passing on the Torch	22 MARIANNE LEONE and MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD Discuss Her New Memoir, Ma Speaks Up MICHAEL FRANK reads from his memoir, The Mighty Franks Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet present debut author ANGELICA BAKER BETH MACY, author of TRUEVINE, in conversation with LISA MULLINS	23 Author ALLEGRA GOODMAN reads The Chalk Artist SHERMAN ALEXIE at First Parish Church Truevine at Porter Square Books	24 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta	25
26 LGBT Novelist SJ SINDU reads from Marriage of a Thousand Lies	27 30th Joiner Institute Writers’ Workshop Poetry and Music Celebration SJ SINDU and LOUIE CRONIN on Their New Novels at JP Papercuts Thriller Novelist LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG in conversation with Mystery Novelist HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN ANN BEATTIE reads The Accomplished Guest: Stories	28 Novel Generator Open House & Info Session How to Be a Muslim: An American Story Brookline Brooksmith presents: Fiction in Translation with KIT SCHLUTER and EMMA RAMADAN	29 Local writers CRYSTAL KING (Feast of Sorrow) and TIM WEED (Murder & Fly Fishing: Stories)	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.