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KATIE GREEN at Story Space

U35 Poetry Reading Series

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WGBH Great American Read Panel on Science in Literature

90s Bitch: ALLISON YARROW in conversation with STEVE ALMOND

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AMITAVA KUMAR presents Immigrant, Montana: A Novel

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Dire Lit Series

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JUDITH HEINEMAN at Story Space

The Third Hotel Book Launch at Harvard Bookstore

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Writer’s Craft: Literary Magazines with BECKY TUCH & SONYA LARSON

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ERIC RICKSTAD live podcast with Writer’s Bone

Fly Girls at Brookline Booksmith

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GrubStreet Happy Hour Writing Session

Boston Poetry Marathon 2018

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George From the Bronx Featured at Story Space

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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968

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Phillis Wheatley Day

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SIMON BROOKS at Story Space

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GrubStreet Fall 2018 Open House and Showcase

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Poetry at the Somerville Community Growing Center

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Story Club Boston

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LEENY DEL SEAMONDS at Story Space

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Beyond Beauport Book Party & Maritime Celebration

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Boston Writers of Color: August Social!

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Dire Literary Series presents Sonya Larson, Michael Keith and Marguerite Bourvard

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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.