Events for December 2019

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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 December 2019 › OOD

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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 Fireside Chat Series-James Masciarelli presents BEYOND BEAUPORT at Beauport Hotel	3 #Poem Monday 2019 at Porter Square Books Four Stories Returns at The Burren Linda & Sumner McClain Featured at Story Space at Havurat Shalom Transnational Series Presents: Reimagining the Epics with Karthika Nair and Nina MacLaughlin at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Michael Learner presents REVOLUTIONARY LOVE: A POLITICAL MANIFESTO TO HEAL AND TRANSFORM THE WORLD at Harvard Book Store View All 6 Events »	4 Suzanne Staubach presents A GARDEN MISCELLANY: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ELEMENTS OF THE GARDEN at Harvard Book Store	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 Arrowsmith Press Book Launch at Friends Meeting at Cambridge IAWA Literary Reading and Open Mic at I Am Books	8 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 Whitney Scharer presents THE GIRL WITH NO NAMES in conversation with Serena Burdick at Harvard Coop
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 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 Ganesh Sitaraman presents THE GREAT DEMOCRACY: HOW TO FIX OUR POLITICS, UNRIG THE ECONOMY, AND UNITE AMERICA at Harvard Book Store	11 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 The Massachusetts Book Awards Holiday Dozen-Cambridge Edition at Cambridge Public Library End of Year Writing Marathon at The Village Works Alex Myers presents CONTINENTAL DIVIDE and Jackson Bird presents SORTED: GROWING UP,COMING OUT, AND FINDING MY PLACE at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar View All 6 Events »	12 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 Tiffany Shlain presents 24/6: THE POWER OF UNPLUGGING ONE DAY A WEEK at Temple Isaiah Meeting Room	13	14	15
16 “SHE SAID”: THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT STORY THAT IGNITED CHANGE- Group Discussion via a Phone Call	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	19	20	21 Rozzie Bound Pop-Up at Turtle Swamp Brewing’s Roslindale Beer Hall	22
23	24	25 Robert Cocuzzo presents THE ROAD TO San Donato at I AM Books	26	27	28	29
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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.