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Events for October 2018

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 Call for Submissions MARK WARREN and DAVID GOODMAN, editors of Lift Us Up, in conversation with contributors and community activists CARLOS OJOS and GLORYA WORNUM	2 Suffolk University Library Speaker Series: LORENZO PETRUZZIELLO Usha Venkatraman Featured at Story Space Memoirist SARAH SMARSH talks about debut book Heartland with author LINDA K. WERTHEIMER HEATHER ABEL and JESSICA KEENER at Belmont Books MOHSIN HAMID in Conversation at the New Hampshire Institute of Art View All 7 Events »	3 GennaRose Nethercott and Mary Kovaleski Byrnes	4 TIM MOHR, author of Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall How to Fight a Nazi MITALI PERKINS at Belmont Books Arlington Author Salon: Facing Fears, Pursuing Passions	5 Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith presents: Gabriela Alemán in conversation with translator Dick Cluster for POSO WELLS	6	7
8	9 Dvora Jonas Featured at Story Space CHAYA BHUVANESWAR in Conversation with CHRIS CASTELLANI at Brookline Booksmith	10 DOUG BURGESS in conversation with HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN	11 IMANI PERRY, author of Looking for Lorraine: the Radical and Radiant Life of Lorraine Hansberry, in conversation with Tracey Heather Strain, documentary filmmaker, “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” (PBS American Masters) Meet the Author: LILLIAN LI, author of Number One Chinese Restaurant Lit Up Gala Ploughshares Hosts JILL MCCORKLE in conversation with MARGOT LIVESEY Author JENN ABELSON and Boston Globe’s MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN	12 Dire Literary Series Finale Dire Literary Series Finale with ELIZABETH GRAVER and other writers MADELINE MILLER, author of Circe, at Belmont Books	13	14 Bishop BARBARA C. HARRIS Book Launch & Hymn Sing
15 Aperitivo with the Author: LORENZO PETRUZZIELLO at Eataly Frederick Douglass – Prophet of Freedom	16 Doria Hughes Featured at Story Space DANIEL GOLDEN: Spy Schools Paperback Launch Craft on Draft Presents A WRITER’S VOICE – HOW TO DEVELOP YOURS AND YOUR CHARACTERS	17 Author Talk and Book Signing with BARBARA BERENSEN Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith presents: Wayétu Moore in conversation with Tanushree Baidya for SHE WOULD BE KING	18 Launch of GrubStreet’s Tell-All Reading Series COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER, author of The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents J. Anthony Lukas Book Awards’ 20th Anniversary RAMIE TARGOFF on “Renaissance Woman” at Belmont Books It’s Now or Never: My Life in the Late Middle Ages	19 Author B.A. SHAPIRO presents new novel	20 Frankenstein Read Aloud! INSIDE THE GRADUATE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM	21 Book Club at Belmont Books
22 Readings from They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing	23 ANDY DAVIS Featured at Story Space Book Launch for VIRGINIA PYE’s Shelf Life of Happiness	24 JENNIFER EGAN reading at Emerson College Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith presents: Ivana Bodrožić in conversation with translator Ellen Elias-Bursać for THE HOTEL TITO SUSAN K. HAMILTON at Belmont Books	25 Speculative Boston presents JULIE C. DAY, HILLARY MONAHAN, and PAUL TREMBLAY TOMMY ORANGE, author of the critically acclaimed novel There There, to speak at Inly School HOWARD MANSFIELD at Belmont Books Award Winning Poet MARILYN CHIN with TARA SKURTU at Boston University	26 Eugene O’Neill –Banned in Boston, 1929 Middays at the Meeting House, Eugene O’Neill –Banned in Boston, 1929	27 Kids Book Club at Belmont Books DEWITT HENRY and MARC VINCENZ reading at Porter Square Books More Lasting Than Bronze?	28 Poets JENNIFER FRANKLIN, JOAN HOULIHAN, and DAN TOBIN reading at Suffolk University Bookstore After Dark Halloween Party!
29 Dr. CRYSTAL FLEMING, author of How to Be Less Stupid About Race In Conversation: Authors JENNA BLUM and RANDY SUSAN MEYERS, Partners in Public Dialogue with VILNA SHUL and Old South Meeting House TOM CALVIN at Belmont Books	30 BEN BRADLEE JR. on “The Forgotten” ARCHANA SUFIANA Featured at Story Space Colson Whitehead at Leslie University	31 The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith presents: Joshua Keating in conversation with Thomas Stackpole for INVISIBLE COUNTRIES: JOURNEYS TO THE EDGE OF NATIONHOOD

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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.