Events for March 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 March 2017 › Book Talk

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		1 Animals Strike Curious Poses, A Novel by ELENA PASSARELLO JIM SHEPARD- The World To Come Cambridge Forum with On Being’s KRISTA TIPPETT	2 Inkblots: A Discussion of Rorschach and His Test at Harvard Book Store	3 Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State Dire Literary Series with ELIZABETH SEARLE, VI KHI NAO, and ADAM SCHEFFLER GARRARD CONLEY and TAYLOR LARSEN at Harvard Book Store	4	5
6 NICOLE GALLAND – The Play’s the Thing: Shakespeare on Stage Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge	7 The One Eyed Man at Harvard Book Store	8 Internationally bestselling author MOHSIN HAMID at Harvard Book Store	9 A Fresh Take on Robert Lowell at Harvard Book Store How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain	10 Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China JAMI ATTENBURG: All Grown Up	11	12
13 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales of Animal Brides and Grooms	14 DAN CHAON: Ill Will	15 The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit	16 How Iceland Inspires Lovers of the Written Word A Discussion of Harriet Tubman, Mary Surratt, and Rosemary Kennedy at the Boston Public Library American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution Rivals Unto the Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr	17 Savor TOM NEALON’s History of Food Fights and Culture Wars The Fortunate Ones- ELLEN UMANSKY at Harvard Book Store	18 Novelists JULIE LEKSTROM and JIM SHEPARD	19 American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
20	21 The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé: A Night of Poetry	22 MSNBC’s Chris Hayes at Old South Church Lowell Lecture: Reginald Dwayne Betts – An Evening of Poetry The Hollywood Daughter – Ingrid Bergman	23 Best New England Crime Stories Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World	24	25 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta	26 Storytime at Newtonville Books: Buzz, Ruby, and Their City Chicks
27 “Connecting with the Enemy” at Porter Square Books	28 Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age	29 ELIF BATUMAN at Harvard Book Store	30	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.