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Never a dull literary moment in Boston! To scratch your literary itch and become an active participant in the best literary community in the country, click on any event in the calendar in order to hyperlink to more information.The events take place both within the Lit District’s borders and outside. OOD means the event is Out Of District.

Events for November 2018

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
			1 Readable Feast Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood Old South Meeting House Film Screening: Strange Interlude with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable Howard Mansfield presents The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down: Our Belief in Property and the Cost of That Belief	2 IDEA Boston: Italian-inspired festival of books, authors and culture Poems in the Aftermath Peter and The Starcatcher	3 IDEA Boston: Italian-inspired festival of books, authors and culture Peter and The Starcatcher Malden Public Library Annual Fall Book Sale Cancelled: SAACC Series: West Wingers Grub Gone…POP	4 Peter and The Starcatcher Boston Public Library Art and Architecture Tour Summer Ink Rekindle Your Craft (and a writing marathon)
5 Peter and The Starcatcher Using What You Know To Write A Mystery	6 Peter and The Starcatcher Bruins legend BOBBY ORR signs copies of “Bobby: My Life in Pictures” LYNN NOEL Featured at Story Space Tue 11/06/2018	7 Peter and The Starcatcher Author Talk and Book Signing with MELINDA PONDER Back to the Afrofuture: A Conversation with Ytasha Womack at Emerson College	8 Peter and The Starcatcher PETER STARK at Belmont Books Abigail DeWitt, News of Our Loved Ones	9 Peter and The Starcatcher Happy Hour Writing Session at GrubStreet Stephen Lane presents No Sanctuary at Porter Sq Books Jeff Speck presents Walkable City Rules at Brookline Booksmith	10 Peter and The Starcatcher A Night of Poetry at Outpost 186 in Cambridge	11 Peter and The Starcatcher
12 Peter and The Starcatcher Chaya Bhuvaneswar Reads at Harvard Bookstore with Laura van den Berg	13 Peter and The Starcatcher Love & Strife: The Life of Saul Bellow–A Reading by Biographer Zachary Leader JOYCE SABATO Featured at Story Space Tue 11/13/2018 VIRGINIA PYE and LAURA VAN DEN BERG MassMouth Story Slam: Black Sheep View All 7 Events »	14 Peter and The Starcatcher Writing Marathon at The Village Works ERIC JAY DOLIN reading at Belmont Books Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir Reading & Signing w/ Sarah Fawn Montgomery	15 Peter and The Starcatcher Emerson College WLP Faculty/Alumni Reading Series Dr. Max Abrahms, author of Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Military History CANCELED: Wendy Drexler & Gabrielle Calvocoressi at Belmont Books Loss of Breath: The Unfinished Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe	16 Peter and The Starcatcher Loss of Breath: The Unfinished Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe 42nd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair	17 Peter and The Starcatcher Loss of Breath: The Unfinished Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe 42nd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair School Street Sessions: Tino Villanueva at the Omni Parker House TELLABRATION!™ Featured at Story Space Sat 11/17/2018 View All 6 Events »	18 Loss of Breath: The Unfinished Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe 42nd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Revival of the Boston Abolitionists at Community Church of Boston Leslie Zemeckis reading and signing at Cuchi Cuchi
19 Suzanne Gordon presents Wounds of War at Porter Square Books Maryse Meijer presents Northwood at Harvard Bookstore	20 ANDREA KAMENS Featured at Story Space Tue 11/20/2018 Kwan Kew Lai, “Lest We Forget” at Belmont Books	21	22	23 John Powers presents FRIDAYS WITH BILL	24	25
26 Elizabeth Berg at Belmont Books	27 Mei-Lin Po Featured at Story Space Tue 11/27/2018 Peter Fallon and David Ferry at Suffolk University	28 Lecture by Francisco Goldman Thrill Me, Chill Me: Mystery Writers Panel at the Boston Public Library A Visit with Louisa May Alcott – Living History Performance with Jan Turnquist Ariel Burger at Belmont Books Two Women on a Quest, with Belle Brett and Cheryl Suchors	29 An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with RHINA P. ESPAILLAT Emerson College WLP Scholar Series: Yu Jin Ko Story Club Boston: Reading and Open Mic A Visit with Louisa May Alcott, Living History Performance with Jan Turnquist B. A. Shapiro at Belmont Books View All 6 Events »	30 Book Sale at the Brighton Public Library

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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.