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Events for August 2017

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	1 Free Shakespeare on the Common: Romeo and Juliet TOM PERROTTA reads at Brookline Booksmith Blast off with children/teen Sci-fi author KATIE SLIVENSKY HILDA WERSCHKUL’s Reflections on Masterpieces	2 Free Shakespeare on the Common: Romeo and Juliet Thoreau’s Wildflowers and Animals JESSICA BERGER GROSS and DAPHNE KALOTAY discuss GROSS’ family memoir, Estranged The Weight of Ink: RACHEL KADISH & JOANNA RAKOFF discuss Jewish Literature Travel writer DOUG MACK on “The Not-Quite States of America”	3 Free Shakespeare on the Common: Romeo and Juliet 55th Annual Cape Cod Writers Center Conference MADELEINE BLAIS Reads from her Memoir, “To the New Owners” Equally Wed: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your LGBTQ+ Wedding	4 Free Shakespeare on the Common: Romeo and Juliet The Dire Literary Series Heavy Metal + Thriller = TONY MACMILLAN Reading from The Augmented Fourth LAURIE PENNY’s “Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults”	5 Free Shakespeare on the Common: Romeo and Juliet	6 Free Shakespeare on the Common: Romeo and Juliet
7 Why They Stay: Journalist ANNE MICHAUD on Politicians’ Wives Award-winning author DANZY SENNA at Harvard Book Store	8 Mass Poetry Unplugged at Prudential Center The Misfortune of Marion Palm: a conversation between EMILY CULLITON and MONA AWAD Biographer MARK SCHNEIDER on Gerry Studs: America’s First Openly Gay Congressman	9 ADAM ABRAMOWITZ reads from his debut gangster novel: Bosstown The Fisherman’s Bride: The Untold Story of the Wife of Simon Peter by CATHERINE MAGIA New Voices in Fiction: SOPHIE CHEN KELLER and “The Luster of Lost Things”	10 Journalist KATHERINE NICHOLS reads Deep Water, a thrilling true story of 1970’s drug traffickers	11 Poet SIMONE JOHN launches collection: Testify, joined by poet KRYSTEN HILL	12	13
14	15 Vietnam Vet/Memoirist DAVID HOLDRIDGE on “The Avant Garde of Western Civ” Award-winning poet FRANK BIDART reads Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016	16 ROBERT WRIGHT: Why Buddhism is True Rolling Stone columnist ROB SHEFFIELD’s latest: Dreaming the Beatles Ghost of the Innocent Man, a true story by BENJAMIN RACHLIN	17 Novelist KAMILA SHAMS: Home Fire Screenplay writer MARK LAMPRELL’s One Summer Day in Rome with MARGARET EVANS Award-winning author PAUL YOON at Harvard Book Store	18 “Last Fan Standing” with author BRUCE CAMPBELL (Hail to the Chin) Poetry Heat Wave! The 2017 Boston Poetry Marathon	19 Poetry Heat Wave! The 2017 Boston Poetry Marathon Local debut YA novelist LANA POPOVIC in conversation with JILLY GAGNON Local bestseller KRISTIN CASHORE shares her novel Jane, Unlimited	20
21	22 GrubStreet Fall 2017 Open House and Showcase Casanova’s Secret Wife, a historical love story by BARBARA LYNN-DAVIS	23 Husband-and-Wife duo PAUL YOON and LAURA VAN DEN BERG read at Brookline Booksmith What Your Clutter is Trying to Tell You with KERRI RICHARDSON	24 Novelist LAURA SCHENONE’s The Dogs of Avalon Freedom’s Ring, A Boston-set Novel by HEIDI CHIAVAROLI	25	26	27
28 Roundtable of Literary Magazine Editors at Porter Square Books	29 First Annual Brookline Booksmith Book Swap	30 Memoirists ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH (The Fact of a Body) and MELISSA FEBOS (Abandon Me) Journalist/author MICHAEL DEIBERT on the history of Haiti	31 Launch party for local novelist JENNIFER TSENG’s The Passion of Woo & Isolde NYC Cooking Demo with Food/Travel Journalist TRACEY CEURVELS

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