Events for May 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 May 2017 › Reading

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 Jeff VanderMeer for “Borne”	2	3	4	5 The Dire Literary Series LIDIA YUKNAVITCH – The Book of Joan	6	7
8	9 RAKESH SATYAL’s new novel: No One Can Pronounce My Name	10	11 “Changing of the Bard”: An Evening of Poetry in Brookline	12	13	14
15	16 Cave Dwellers at Brookline Booksmith GrubStreet Summer 2017 Open House and Showcase	17 Said Not Said: Poetry Reading and Reception with FRED MARCHANT	18	19	20 An Afternoon with Granta Magazine: Best of Young American Novelists	21
22 DANI SHAPIRO at Brookline Booksmith	23	24 MAXIM D SHRAYER – Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges & Refused to Give Up	25 Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, & Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas	26	27	28
29	30 GrubStreet’s Short Story Incubator Open House & Info Session A True Tale of Love and Survival in the Amazon	31 MAX WINTER and DAISY JOHNSON at Brookline Booksmith

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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.