Events for January 2019

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 January 2019 › Book Talk

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	1	2	3 Lesley University Winter Evening Reading Series INVASIONS at Trident	4	5	6
7 REPLAY EARTH at Trident	8 AFTER EMILY Reading at the Boston Athenaeum	9 An Evening of Poetry at Brookline Booksmith	10 Author Talk and Book Signing: Edward Bullmore Belle Brett reads from GINA IN THE FLOATING WORLD at Blemont Books Book Launch: THE WORD PRETTY Author Talk and Book Signing: Chigozie Obioma	11 Author Talk: Laura Adamczyk in conversation with Chaya Bhuvaneswar BOOK LAUNCH: The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King	12 Interactive Reading with Henry Horenstein at Porter Square Books	13
14 Author Talk: Tom MacDonald Author Talk with Robin Cook & Daniela Lamas	15 DARK TIDE at the Boston Public Library South End Writes presents Joan Diver Author Talk with Joshua D. Mezrich	16 Author Talk & Book Signing: Susan Crawford	17 Author Talk and Book Signing with Jim Hamilton Buy Me, Boston James Charlesworth and Susan Bernhard at Brookline Booksmith	18	19	20
21	22 Author Talk: Deborah L. Plummer	23 Dani Shapiro at Brookline Booksmith Author Talk: Peter Shinkle	24 Mark Lamster in conversation with William Rawn at the BPL Abby Ellin at Brookline Booksmith	25 Katherine Arden & Julia Meitov Hersey at Brookline Booksmith Author Talk: Shoshana Zuboff	26	27 Sylvia Ruth Gutmann at Brookline Booksmith
28 Stephanie Gayle talk at Cambridge Public Library Tessa Hadley in conversation with James Wood	29 Author Talk: Justin Driver	30 Author Talk: Richard Wrangham Author Talk: Anthony Tommasini	31 Fantastic Fiction Reading with Speculative Boston Karen Dillon and Efosa Ojomo at Brookline Booksmith Author Talk & Signing: Daisy Johnson

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Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.