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Events for September 2017

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				1 Dire Literary Series with HIMES, SALISBURY and PAGE	2	3
4	5 CLAIRE MESSUD in conversation with WBUR’s CHRISTOPHER LYDON A Dream Between Two Rivers, a new voice in short fiction Rethinking the Cold War with Kennedy School scholar ODD ARNE WESTAD Author STEPHANIE GAYLE reads Idyll Fears, the 2nd in her LGTBQ crime series	6 How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Body, and Brain Feminist gamer ZOE QUINN and the fight against online hate in “Crash Override” Award-winning author ALEX GILVARRY at Harvard Book Store The Most Important Year: Dr. SUZANNE BOUFFARD on Pre-K Education	7 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! VANESSA GRIGORIADIS: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus The Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things, a conversation with KIM ADRIAN and MATTHEW BATTLES	8 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! SALMAN RUSHDIE with his latest novel, The Golden House Historian YURI SLEZKIN and TERRY MARTIN on the Russian Revolution Local poets at Brookline Booksmith Twitter humorist JONNY SUN at Porter Square Books	9 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today	10 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest!
11 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! Book Release Party: Boston 1945-2015 ROBIN SLOAN returns with his latest novel, Sourdough	12 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! Mass Poetry Unplugged at Prudential Center “America’s librarian” NANCY PEARL shares her debut, “George and Lizzie” NYT bestselling author ATUL GAWANDE with novelist JENNIFER HAIGH NYT best-selling author GRETCHEN RUBIN in conversation with MELISSA HARTWIG View All 8 Events »	13 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! A Column of Fire, the latest in the Kingsbridge series Poets and Pints with Porter Square Books Foreign correspondent/author DEBORAH CAMPBELL: A Disappearance in Damascus Boston Globe journalist/author DICK LEHR (Black Mass) shares his latest View All 7 Events »	14 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! Beyond Mr. Darcy: A panel discussion with romance authors Damon Suede, Farrah Rochon, and Sarina Bowen EILEEN MYLES on “Afterglow: a Dog Memoir” The German-Jewish Cookbook: A Look at the History and the Recipes The Suffragents: the hidden history of the men behind the struggle for women’s suffrage	15 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr. at Harvard Book Store NATHAN ENGLANDER shares his latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth Novelist NICOLE KRAUSS interviewed by the New Yorker’s JAMES WOOD at Brookline Booksmith	16 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest!	17 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest!
18 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! STEPHEN GREENBLATT: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Sci-Fi author M.T. ANDERSON and award-winning novelist JULIA GLASS in conversation The Ways Women Age by Professor ABIGAIL BROOKS	19 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! Writers’ Room of Boston and City Year Boston: 1st Ever Lit Slam Before I Had the Words: A Reading with Trans Memoirist SKYLAR KERGIL The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship	20 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! ROBERT MCKEE on “The Primacy of Story”	21 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! Attention fantasy-lovers: MAX GLADSTONE is back with The Ruin of Angels ELI FINKEL on the “All-or-Nothing Marriage” Sid Sanford Lives! A reading and signing with debut author DANIEL FORD	22 Call for Submissions! 10 minute Play Contest! The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought Neuroscientist TALI SHAROT on “The Influential Mind” YA author BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe) at Brookline Booksmith Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: A fascinating journey through the craft chocolate revolution	23 LENORA CHU, author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve	24
25 ORHAN PAMUK with MARIA TARTAR discuss “The Red-Haired Woman” NYT best-selling author ELIAS WEISS FRIEDMAN returns with The Dogist: Puppies FRED DEVECCA Shares his Mystery Novel, The Nutting Girl	26 ANDREA PITZER on One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps A Night of Chilling Stories with GARETH HINDS and BEN LOORY #Thoreau200: A Screening of PAUL TURANO’s Wonder, Wander, Wilderness	27 Fashion Designer JOSEPH ABBOUD at the BPL Why Thoreau Still Matters: Lessons on Environmentalism & Civil Disobedience Folk/Rock legend ART GARFUNKEL on his memoir How does addiction impact family? A conversation between Granta publisher/editor SIGRID RAUSING and GISH JEN Local YA authors take on the fantastic and peculiar at Brookline Booksmith View All 7 Events »	28 Dr. ANDREW BUDSON, co-author of Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and What to Do About It “Black Orators: By Word and By Pen” at the Museum of African American History ROSALYN ELDER on Massachusetts’ African American Heritage DANIEL MENDELSOHN, “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic” Actor/author KARL GEARY reads his first novel: Montpelier Parade View All 8 Events »	29 Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century Breakwater Reading Series at Brookline Booksmith	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.