Name: NaNoWriMo at Weston Public Library
Start: 2019-11-03T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2019-11-03T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Weston Public Library

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 October 2019

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	1 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Ann Patchett presents THE DUTCH HOUSE at Coolidge Corner Theatre Read4Refugees Kick-Off at Pucker Gallery Billy Bragg presents THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF FREEDOM in conversation with Cass R. Sunstein at Cambridge Public Library View All 10 Events »	2 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Richard Russo presents CHANCES ARE . . . : A NOVEL at Brattle Theatre Rekindle Your Craft: A Prompt-Writing Night at The Village Works Jennifer Block presents EVERYTHING BELOW THE WAIST: WHY HEALTH CARE NEEDS A FEMINIST REVOLUTION in conversation with Jaclyn Friedman at Harvard Book Store View All 6 Events »	3 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Author Talk and Book Signing with Edwin Hill at the State Library of Massachusetts Women of Color and the Global Security Challenges of the 21st Century with Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins at UMass Boston Author Talk Series: Jack Cashman: An Irish Immigrant Story at Boston Public Library View All 10 Events »	4 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Boston Book Festival at Dudley Square Lisa Duggan presents MEAN GIRL: AYN RAND AND THE CULTURE OF GREED in conversation with Lauren Kaminsky at Harvard Book Store Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant present THE GIFT INSIDE THE BOX in conversation with Daniel Gilbert at First Parish Church View All 6 Events »	5 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Reckless Poetry: A GrubStreet Workshop with Cathie Desjardins at GrubStreet, 162 Boylston Street R.J. Palacio presents WHITE BIRD at Coolidge Corner Theatre Aimee Lucido presents EMMY IN THE KEY OF CODE and Sofiya Pasternack presents ANYA AND THE DRAGON at Porter Square Books View All 8 Events »	6 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Children’s Storytime: Nancy Tupper Ling presents THE YIN-YANG SISTERS AND THE DRAGON FRIGHTFUL at Brookline Booksmith New England Romance Writer’s Association Craft Workshop at Brookline Public Library Poetry; The Art of Words / Mike Amado Memorial Series at Plymouth Public Library View All 11 Events »
7 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey present SHE SAID: BREAKING THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT STORY THAT HELPED IGNITE A MOVEMENT in conversation with Ashley Judd at First Parish Church Jim Wallis presents CHRIST IN CRISIS: WHY WE NEED TO RECLAIM JESUS at Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music Annalee Newitz presents THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER TIMELINE: A NOVEL in conversation with Stephanie Burt at Harvard Book Store View All 6 Events »	8 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees John Grisham and Doris Kearns Goodwin present THE GUARDIANS: A NOVEL at Back Bay Events Center Dessa presents MY OWN DEVICES in conversation with Michael Pollan at Public Library of Brookline South End Writes presents Alison Burnets at South End Library View All 7 Events »	9 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees CLA presents “My Name is ʻŌpūkahaʻia” by Moses Goods at Congressional Library and Archives Cambridge Forum: Christopher Leonard presents KOCHLAND: THE SECRET HISTORY OF KOCH INDUSTRIES AND CORPORATE POWER IN AMERICA at First Parish Church Fatima Bhutto presents NEW KINGS OF THE WORLD: DISPATCHES FROM BOLLYWOOD, DIZI, AND K-POP at Harvard Book Store View All 6 Events »	10 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Michael Frank presents WHAT IS MISSING at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Online ArtWeek Spark Session Micheal Longley and David Ferry: A Dialogue In & About Poetry at the Poetry Center, 3rd floor of Sawyer Library View All 15 Events »	11 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees The Great Falls Word Festival at Western, MA LeakyCon at Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead presents A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING: THE NEW CONSPIRACISM AND ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY at Harvard Book Store View All 7 Events »	12 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees The Great Falls Word Festival at Western, MA LeakyCon at Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center Native American Poets Playlist: Poems in the Gallery at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology View All 10 Events »	13 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees The Great Falls Word Festival at Western, MA LeakyCon at Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center Native American Poets Playlist: Poems in the Gallery at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology View All 8 Events »
14 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees The Great Falls Word Festival at Western, MA Native American Poets Playlist: Poems in the Gallery at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Brookline Booksmith Book Club -THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	15 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre #Read4Refugees Emerson College WLP Publishing Series, Writing About Other People at the Bill Bordy Theatre South End History Writer Alison Barnet, Drawing a Capacity Crowd Last Week, Will Do a Second Presentation of “Once Upon A Neighborhood” at South End Library Tony Toledo Featured at Story Space Tue 10/15/2019 at Havurat Shalom View All 9 Events »	16 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre An Evening with Author Susan Isaacs at The Lenox Hotel Shawnna’s BPL Writer-in-Residence Reading at Boston Public Library Ashley Lemieux presents BORN TO SHINE: PRACTICAL TOOLS TO HELP YOU SHINE, EVEN IN LIFE’S DARKEST MOMENTS at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Leigh Bardugo presents NINTH HOUSE: A NOVEL at Cambridge Public Library View All 7 Events »	17 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre Author Talk Series: Alexandra Horowitz in conversation with Harriet Ritvo and Craig LeMoult at Boston Public Library Emerson College WLP Scholar Series, Erika R. Williams at Walker Building, Room 205 Gail Collins presents NO STOPPING US NOW: THE ADVENTURES OF OLDER WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY at Brattle Theatre Pico Iyer presents A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO JAPAN: OBSERVATIONS AND PROVOCATIONS and AUTUMN LIGHT: SEASON OF FIRE AND FAREWELLS at Harvard Book store View All 8 Events »	18 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre The American Inspiration Series presents: Gail Collins with NO STOPPING US NOW at 99-101 Newbury Street John Hodgman Drop in Signing at Brookline Booksmith Adrienne Brodeur presents WILD GAME: MY MOTHER, HER LOVER, AND ME in conversation with Joanna Rakoff at Harvard Book Store Bill Bryson presents THE BODY: A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS at First Parish Church View All 7 Events »	19 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre Additional Alcott Tours will Lead into Little Women Movie Release at Boston By Foot Boston Book Festival at Copley Square Volunteer with Mass Poetry at 2019 Boston Book Festival Poetry at the Extreme at BPL McKim Exhibition Hall View All 9 Events »	20 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre Children’s Storytime: Jacqueline Veissid presents RUBY’S SWORD and CASPIAN FINDS A FRIEND Boston Book Festival: Roxbury Edition at Dudley Square Author Event: Debbi Michiko Florence (Proceeds to Benefit Buddy Dog!) at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore Be the Change Community Action: Making Spaces Safer at Porter Square Books View All 7 Events »
21 Jeanette Winterson presents FRANKISSSTEIN: A LOVE STORY at First Parish Church Roy Scranton presents I ❤ OKLAHOMA!: A NOVEL in conversation with David Levine at Harvard Book Store Sasha Sagan presents FOR SMALL CREATURES SUCH AS WE at Cambridge Public Library Small Press Book Club discusses Axiomatic at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Fostering Racial Justice Book Club: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore View All 6 Events »	22 Award-winning Foreign Correspondent Stephen Kinzer Returns to the South End Library with POISONER IN CHIEF: SIDNEY GOTTLIEB AND THE CIA SEARCH FOR MIND CONTROL Andy Davis Featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom Elizabeth Earley presents LIKE WINGS, YOUR HANDS: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store Steven Hassan presents THE CULT OF TRUMP at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Orange Door Kitchen Cook Book Club: Homegrown by Matt Jennings at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore View All 6 Events »	23 Ta-Nehisi presents THE WATER DANCER at Chevalier Theatre Farewell to the “Old” South End Library Party at South End Library Sean Carroll presents SOMETHING DEEPLY HIDDEN: QUANTUM WORLDS AND THE EMERGENCE OF SPACETIME at Harvard Science Center Jami Attenberg presents ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS in conversation with Laura Van Den Berg at Harvard Book Store Kate Wisen presents DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN in conversation with Jenn De Leon at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar View All 6 Events »	24 Toddy Smith and Darren Nuzzo present I’LL GIVE YOU A DOLLAR IF YOU CONSIDER THIS ART at Brookline Booksmith OVERTIME: Author Talk with John Bacon at More Than Words Bookstore Speculative Boston Reading Series: Dark Fiction at Trident Booksellers & Cafe Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne presents HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store Speculative Boston October Reading at Trident Booksellers & Cafe View All 8 Events »	25 Serhii Plokhy presents FORGOTTEN BASTARDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT: AMERICAN AIRMEN BEHIND THE SOVIET LINES AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE at Harvard Book Store Gary Janetti presents DO YOU MIND IF I CANCEL?: (THINGS THAT STILL ANNOY ME) at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	26 Somerville 2069 at Arts at the Armory Writing Workshop with Jamele Adams at Institute of Contemporary Art Saturday Morning Storytime: Jacqueline Veissid at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore Black Words Matter: A Poetry Workshop with Danielle Legros Georges on new African Poetry at UMass Boston Gabrielle Bernstein presents SUPER ATTRACTOR at Strand Theatre View All 7 Events »	27 Children’s Storytime:Wheelock Family Theatre – WILLY WONKA The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willy Wonka at Brookline Booksmith NaNoWriMo Kickoff Party! at The Silver Unicorn Rhett McLaughin and Link Neal present THE LOST CAUSES OF BLEAK CREEK at the Wilbur
28 Author Talks Series: Farah Pandith: How We Win at Boston Public Library Eva Chen and Derek Desierto present JUNO VALENTINE AND THE FANTASTIC FASHION ADVENTURE at Coolidge Corner Theatre Harvard Square Book Circle discusses Shirley Jackson’s THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store Memoir Event: Maureen Stanton and Sharon Lamb at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore Women’s National Book Association Boston presents Adrienne Brodeur and Tova Mirvis at Porter Square Books	29 SFF Write-in at BPL Mezzanine Conference Room 2 Robert Isenberg Featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom Azra Raza presents THE FIRST CELL: AND THE HUMAN COSTS OF PURSUING CANCER TO THE LAST at Harvard Book Store Joshua Foer presents ATLAS OBSCURA, SECOND EDITION in conversation with Jack Lepiarz at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Free Showing of Dickinson at AMC Assembly Row 12 View All 7 Events »	30 Costume Pajama Storytime! at The Silver Unicorn Bookstore S. James Gates and Cathie Pelletier present PROVING EINSTEIN RIGHT: THE DARING EXPEDITIONS THAT CHANGED HOW WE LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE at Harvard Science Center Heather Morris presents CILKA’S JOURNEY at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Nancy Seasholes presents THE ATLAS OF BOSTON HISTORY at Porter Square Books HYSTERIA: Boston at Old South Church View All 7 Events »	31 Christopher McDougall presents RUNNING WITH SHERMAN: THE DONKEY WITH THE HEART OF A HERO at Harvard Book Store

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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.

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