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Events for December 2019

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						1 Harvard Book Store Gives Back Solstice Magazine Benefit & Night Riffs at The Rockwell
2 #Poem Monday 2019 at Porter Square Books Author Talk and Book Signing with Richard A. Johnson at the State Library of Massachusetts Fireside Chat Series-James Masciarelli presents BEYOND BEAUPORT at Beauport Hotel	3 #Poem Monday 2019 at Porter Square Books GrubStreet Spring 2020 Open House and Showcase at GrubStreet HQ Alice Hoffman presents THE WORLD THAT WE KNEW in conversation with Marc Skvirsky at Boston Athenaeum Four Stories Returns at The Burren Linda & Sumner McClain Featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom View All 8 Events »	4 Suzanne Staubach presents A GARDEN MISCELLANY: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ELEMENTS OF THE GARDEN at Harvard Book Store Julie Dobrow presents AFTER EMILY: TWO REMARKABLE WOMEN AND THE LEGACY OF AMERICA’S GREATEST POET at Trident Booksellers & Cafe	5	6 Friday Fiction Book Club: BEFORE WE WERE YOURS at The Silver Unicorn Winter Warehouse Sale at Harvard Book Store Breakwater Reading Series at Cambridge Center for Adult Education	7 NaNoWriMo TGIO Party at Wellesley Public Library Holly Jolly Half-Off Sale at More Than Words Arrowsmith Press Book Launch at Friends Meeting at Cambridge IAWA Literary Reading and Open Mic at I Am Books	8 Holly Jolly Half-Off Sale at More Than Words Writing Workshop with Martha Collins at Institute for Contemporary Art When Facts Are Not Enough: Reading Atheist Fiction at Phillips Brooks House Gallery Talk with Oliver de la Paz at Institute for Contemporary Art New England Poetry Club: New Poetry and Open Mic at Arts at the Armory View All 7 Events »
9 Bathsheba Demuth presents FLOATING COAST: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE BERING STRAIT in conversation with Joan Naviyuk Kane at Harvard Book Store Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey present “SHE SAID”: THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT STORY THAT IGNITED CHANGE at Calderwood Pavilion Brookline Booksmith Book Club discusses Celestial Bodies at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	10 The American Inspiration author series and WGBH present: Holly George-Warren presenting JANIS: HER LIFE AND MUSIC at WGBH Studio in Boston Public Library Bookbuilders of Boston Holiday Party at Trillium Brewing Company Salon with Nina MacLaughlin presenting WAKE, SIREN Jim Harriman Featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom Calvin Hennick presents ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO: A MEMOIR in conversation with Adrian Walker at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar View All 7 Events »	11 GrubStreet FREE Brown Bag Lunch Writing Series at GrubStreet HQ Mary Laura Philpott presents I MISS YOU WHEN I BLINK at Wellesley Books Chanan Tigay presents THE LOST BOOK OF MOSES: THE HUNT FOR THE WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLE at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Eric Foner presents THE SECOND FOUNDING: HOW THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION REMADE THE CONSTITUTION at Boston Atheneaum The Massachusetts Book Awards Holiday Dozen-Cambridge Edition at Cambridge Public Library View All 8 Events »	12 Ben Railton presents WE THE PEOPLE: THE 500-YEAR BATTLE OVER WHO IS AMERICAN at Boston Athenaeum Jeffrey Colvin presents AFRICAVILLE in conversation with Melissa Rivero at Boston Public Library Novel Incubator Open House and Info Session at GrubStreet HQ Mikki Kendall presents AMAZONS, ABOLITIONISTS, AND ACTIVISTS at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Rozzie Reads featuring New Mission High School student poets at Roslindale House View All 6 Events »	13 GrubStreet Happy Hour Writing Session at GrubStreet HQ	14 Drag Queen Story Hour at Trident Booksellers & Cafe Solidarity Salon at Lilypad	15 Louisa May Alcott’s Boston—Boston by Foot Walking Tour
16 “SHE SAID”: THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT STORY THAT IGNITED CHANGE- Group Discussion via a Phone Call Silent Book Club at Trident Booksellers & Cafe Free Early Screening of Little Women at AMC Boston Common	17 Middle Grade Book Club: LOOK BOTH WAYS by Jason Reynolds at The Silver Unicorn Robyn Perkins Featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom Meredith Atwood presents THE YEAR OF NO NONSENSE: HOW TO GET OVER YOURSELF AND ON WITH YOUR LIFE at Brookline Booksmith Used Cellar Bob Garfield presents: AMERICAN MANIFESTO: SAVING DEMOCRACY FROM VILLAINS, VANDALS, AND OURSELVES at Harvard Book Store	18 HUB Theatre of Boston Play Reading: MR. MARMALADE at Trident Booksellers & Cafe	19 Trident Staff Pick Book Club: HOGFATHER at Trident Booksellers & Cafe	20	21 Rozzie Bound Pop-Up at Turtle Swamp Brewing’s Roslindale Beer Hall	22 Harry Potter Trivia at Trident Booksellers & Cafe
23	24	25 Robert Cocuzzo presents THE ROAD TO San Donato at I AM Books	26	27	28	29
30 Silent Book Club at Trident Booksellers & Cafe Trident Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Booksellers & Cafe	31

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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.