Events for July 2017

Who, What, Where

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 July 2017 › Book Talk

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3	4	5 PHILIP SMUCKER on “Riding with George” about his ancestor, George Washington	6 Memoirist LEAH CAROLL and Essayist ALAN FISHBONE talk mortality and freedom Novelists MARGOT LIVESEY (Mercury) and LIZ MOORE (The Unseen World)	7 Dire Literary Series: RACHEL KADISH, JAY SHEETS and LAUREN HILGER Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures Writer/Performer RANDY ROSS: God Bless Cambodia	8 The Silver Linings Playbook author MATTHEW QUICK on The Reason You’re Alive	9 Silver Linings Playbook MATTHEW QUICK at Porter Square Books
10	11 A Night of Poetry at Harvard Book Store Satirist MATTHEW KLAM in conversation with CURTIS SITTENFELD Local novelists KELLY FORD (Cottonmouths) and MICHELLE HOOVER (Bottomland)	12 Twitter Humorist Jonny Sun: “Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Alien Too” Actor CURTIS ARMSTRONG: “Revenge of the Nerd”	13 Glee’s CHRIS COLFER with his final book in the best selling Land of Stories series DARYL GREGORY reads his newest novel: Spoonbenders Food Feuds: From Ancient Rome to Southie at Kickstand Cafe	14 Short story author PATRICK DACEY reads from his first novel The Outer Cape	15	16
17	18 Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure at Harvard Bookstore CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE and THEODORA GOSS on Women in the Horror/Sci Fi Genre	19 Bestselling Mystery Novelist MICHAEL CONNELLY reads The Late Show	20 BILLY BRAGG talks “Roots, Radicals and Rockers” at Brookline Brooksmith	21	22	23
24 The Cartel 7: Illuminati book tour kick-off at the Boston Public Library	25 Illustrators BRADEN LAMB, SHELLI PAROLINE, and JEREL DYE present Making Scents and Pigs Might Fly	26 KATHERINE VAZ and JOAN WICKERSHAM at Porter Square Books ALLEGRA GOODMAN Talks “The Chalk Artist” at Harvard Book Store	27 The Launch of City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems Sci-Fi/Horror authors DAN MOREN and LL SOARES at Porter Square Books New Voices in Fiction: IAN BASSINGTHWAIGHTE in conversation with ANDREW KRIVAK	28	29	30
31 Memoirist/Essayist DAVID GESSNER on Ultimate Frisbee

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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.