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Events for June 2018

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
				1 JOHN HODGEMAN presents Vacationland	2 Dire Literary Series: with PAUL BECKMAN, TONY MCMILLEN and Izikhotane	3 From Picture Books to YA: 7 Children’s Authors Discuss the Wide World of Kit Lit
4	5 From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler’s Death Camps to Inspire a Generation LAURETTA PHILLIPS honors PETER BRODEUR at Story Space Best-selling author GAIL HONEYMAN at Wellesley Books	6 Rekindle Your Craft & Writing Marathon MICHAEL ERIC DYSON on “Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America Writing Marathon at The Village Works “Writing About Politics” Reading & Open Mic	7 National Writer’s Union Presents a Conversation with RANDY SUSAN MEYERS & META WAGNER Queer Coming of Age Stories: Pride Month at the Boston Public Library Tyrant, Show Thy Face – A Benefit for Actor’s Shakespeare Project ALLISON PEARSON, author of I Don’t Know How She Does It	8 LESLIE CORMIER, PhD presents “Copley Square” at Wellesley Books	9	10
11 Author RUPERT THOMSON at the Boston Public Library	12 NINA LESIGA Featured at Story Space Turtle Studios Writers Night	13 826 Boston Book Release Party	14 Real People, Real Stories of Mattapan	15 NANTUCKET BOOK FESTIVAL JENNA BLUM event at Wellesley Books	16 NANTUCKET BOOK FESTIVAL	17 NANTUCKET BOOK FESTIVAL
18 Writers Without Margins: Writing & Recovery	19 Ken Green Featured at Story Space The Ruined House: A Conversation with Israeli-American Author RUBY NAMDAR	20 Juneteenth at MFA Boston, Cosponsored by GrubStreet TERRANCE HAYES at Harvard Book Store	21 Author Talk and Book Signing with PATRICIA HARRIS and DAVID LYON Evolution of Human Nature Panel at the Boston Public Library The Edible Page with JENNA BLUM It’s Now or Never: My Life in the Late Middle Ages	22 Summer Reading Series with MIRA T. LEE and OLIVE SENIOR	23 Summer Reading Series with MIRA T. LEE and OLIVE SENIOR Don’t Just Stand There and Read It! Performing Your Writing \| ¡No te pares ahí leyendo sin hacer nada! Interpretando tu escritura en vivo Greater Boston Writers Resist 2018 Greater Boston Writers Resist/Greater Boston Writers Persist Solidarity Salon	24 Summer Reading Series with MIRA T. LEE and OLIVE SENIOR Poetry at the Somerville Community Growing Center Poetry in the Garden Series
25 Summer Reading Series with MIRA T. LEE and OLIVE SENIOR	26 Summer Reading Series with MIRA T. LEE and OLIVE SENIOR South End Writes presents author KAREN DAY	27 Summer Reading Series with MIRA T. LEE and OLIVE SENIOR Novel Generator Open House & Info Session ALISSA QUART: Squeezed	28	29	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.