Events for February 2017

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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 February 2017 › Book Talk

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		1 Democracy: A Case Study	2	3 Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman, Creation and Collaboration: Signs and Transmigration Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir	4	5
6	7 Pulitzer Prize Winner MEGAN MARSHALL on ELIZABETH BISHOP F*ck Love: An evening with MICHAEL and SARAH BENNETT	8 JOHN DANIELLE (Wolf in the White Van) reads from his latest at Harvard Book Store AYELET WALDMAN at Brookline Booksmith	9 “Worst Bestsellers” Live Taping at Trident Booksellers & Cafe Women’s Literary Voices Today: An evening with internationally acclaimed author JENNA BLUM	10 GrubStreet Happy Hour Modern Death- How Medicine Changed the End of Life	11	12 Release Party for “The Modern Lovers” by Sean L. Maloney
13 We’ll Always Have Casablanca	14 “Wicked Pissed” at the State House	15 A Night of Poetry at Harvard Book Store	16 Wealth and Celebrity in Boston’s Gilded Age: A Talk with STEPHEN MOSKEY Translating Cuban Poetry: Reading & Collaborative Workshop A Night of Memoir in J.P. with MINDY FRIED and CAROLINE HELLER A Night of Poetry at Porter Square Books	17 Meet the Author: ROXANE GAY at Cambridge Public Library GEORGE SAUNDERS at Harvard Book Store	18	19
20	21	22 YUVAL NOAH HARARI on A Brief History of Tomorrow Christina Baker Kline at Boston Public Library Pulitzer Prize Winner MEGAN MARSHALL on ELIZABETH BISHOP All Tomorrow’s Parties: ROB SPILLMAN & NINA MACLAUGHLIN	23 TRACY K. SMITH Reading at Emerson	24 MIT Lab’s JOI ITO and JEFF HOWE on Surviving “Our Faster Future”	25	26
27 The Rise of the Rocket Girls KAITLYN GREENIDGE: We Love You, Charlie Freeman	28 Love and Literature: A Panel on Romance at the Boston Public Library GISH JEN reads from her latest, “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap”

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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.