Events for January 2020

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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 January 2020 › OOD

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		1	2	3 Olympic Readers Book Club at Boston Public Library Jamaica Plain Branch Readers in the Realms of Knowledge Book Club at Boston Public Library Jamaica Plain Branch	4 Drag Queen Story Hour at Boston Public Library Fields Corner	5
6 Harvard Square Book Circle discusses Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA at Harvard Book Store Ryan La Sala presents REVERIE at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	7 Miranda Popkey presents TOPICS OF CONVERSATION: A NOVEL in conversation with Nina MacLaughlin at Harvard Book Store Karen McManus presents ONE OF US IS LYING in conversation with Rory Power at Porter Square Books Howard Axelrod presents THE STARS IN OUR POCKETS in conversation with James Parker at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	8 Teen Writer’s Workshop at Wellesley Books BJ Fogg presents TINY HABITS: THE SMALL CHANGES THAT CHANGE EVERYTHING at Harvard Book Store Kiley Reid presents SUCH A FUN AGE in conversation with Sasha Sagan at Porter Square Books Bill’s Book Group for Guys discusses THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG at Wellesley Books Melissa Albert presents THE NIGHT COUNTRY: A HAZEL WOOD NOVEL in conversation with Malinda Lo at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	9 Camille Deangelis presents A BRIGHT CLEAN MIND at Porter Square Books T.J. Mitchell and Dr. Judy Melinek present FIRST CUT at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Arlington Author Salon at Kickstand Cafe	10 Peggy Orenstein presents BOYS & SEX: YOUNG MEN ON HOOKUPS, LOVE, PORN, CONSENT AND NAVIGATING THE NEW MASCULINITY in conversation with Richard Weissbourd at Harvard Book Store Zvi Sesling, Jan Schreiber, Judith Steinbergh, Deborah Leipziger & Tino Villanueva at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	11	12 Children’s Storytime at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
13 Joanne Chang presents PASTRY LOVE: A BAKER’S JOURNAL OF FAVORITE RECIPES at Harvard Book Store Brookline Booksmith Book Club discusses THE WINTER SOLDIER at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	14 Rachael’s Book Club for Kids discusses MEG, JO, BETH, AND AMY: A GRAPHIC NOVEL at Wellesley Books David Meerman Scott and Reiko Scott present FANOCRACY at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Garth Greenwell presents CLEANNESS at Harvard Book Store	15 Laura McKowen presents WE ARE THE LUCKIEST: THE SURPRISING MAGIC OF A SOBER LIFE at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Liz Moore presents LONG BRIGHT RIVER: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store Tara Sim presents SCAVENGE THE STARS in conversation with Christine Lynn Herman and Amanda Foody at Porter Square Books	16 Transnational Series presents: E.J. Koh’s THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE OF OTHERS at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Anna Wiener presents UNCANNY VALLEY: A MEMOIR at Harvard Book Store Matthew Goodman presents THE CITY GAME: TRIUMPH, SCANDAL, AND A LEGENDARY BASKETBALL TEAM at Porter Square Books Judy Foreman presents HOW PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BOOSTS HEALTH AND SLOWS AGING at Harvard Coop Patricia Marx and Roz Chast presents YOU CAN ONLY YELL AT ME FOR ONE THING AT A TIME at Arts at the Armory	17 Roz Chast & Patty Marx present YOU CAN ONLY YELL AT ME FOR ONE THING AT A TIME at Wellesley Books Samantha Matt presents AVERAGE IS THE NEW AWESOME at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	18	19 Children’s Storytime at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar
20 Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel present LET’S BE WEIRD TOGETHER at Porter Square Books Small Press Book Club discusses JAKARTA at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	21 Joseph Finder presents HOUSE ON FIRE at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Stephanie Land presents MAID: HARD WORK, LOW PAY, AND A MOTHER’S WILL TO SURVIVE at Harvard Book Store Joel Christian Gill presents FIGHTS at Porter Square Books	22 Steve Inskeep presents AN IMPERFECT UNION:HOW JESSIE AND JOHN FREMONT MAPPED THE WEST, INVENTED CELEBRITY, AND HELPED CAUSE THE CIVIL WAR at Brattle Theatre Alex Myers presents CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store Eitan Hersh presents POLITICS IS FOR POWER at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	23 James Wood presents SERIOUS NOTICING: SELECTED ESSAY, 1997-2019 at Harvard Book Store Tell-All Boston with Calvin Hennick at Porter Square Books Tell-All Boston with Calvin Hennick at Porter Square Books Jeffrey Colvin presents AFRICAVILLE at Harvard Coop Feast of Fiction: Adrienne Brodeur, Rachel Kadish, and Mimi Lemay at Orange Door Kitchen	24 Jeanine Cummins presents AMERICAN DIRT in conversation with Shannon Dooling at WBUR CitySpace Meng Jin presents LITTLE GODS: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store	25 Transnational Series presents: Javad Djavahery presenting MY PART OF HER in conversation with Emma Ramadan at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar	26
27 William Gibson presents AGENCY: A NOVEL at First Parish Church Kim Ghattas presents BLACK WAVE: SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN, AND THE FORTY-YEAR RIVALRY THAT UNRAVELED CULTURE, RELIGION, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MIDDLE EAST at Harvard Book Store Making a Mystery with Clea Simon, Joanna Schaffhausen, Kate Flora, and Julie Hennrikus at Porter Square Books Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn present TIGHTROPE: AMERICANS REACHING FOR HOPE at Back Bay Events Center	28 Jonathan Rosenberg presents DANGEROUS MELODIES: CLASSICAL MUSIC IN AMERICA FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE COLD WAR at Harvard Book Store	29 E. Patrick Johnson presents HONEYPOT: BLACK SOUTHERN WOMEN WHO LOVE WOMEN in conversation with Angela Ards at Harvard Book Store Mike Eruzione presents MIRACLE ON ICE at Porter Square Books David D. Hall presents THE PURITANS: A TRANSATLANTIC HISTORY at Harvard Coop	30 Eric Smith presents DON’T READ THE COMMENTS and Karen McManus presents ONE OF US IS NEXT at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar Jessica Stern presents MY WAR CRIMINAL: PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH AN ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE at Harvard Book Store	31 Beth Blum presents THE SELF-HELP COMPULSION: SEARCHING FOR ADVICE IN MODERN LITERATURE in conversation with Louis Menand at Harvard Book Store Scott Simon presents SUNNYSIDE PLAZA at Peabody School Auditorium Ezra Klein presents WHY WE’RE POLARIZED at Back Bay Events Center

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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.