Loading Events
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.
Find Events

Event Views Navigation

Events for February 2017 › Speaker

Calendar Month Navigation

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
30

An Evening of Inspired Leaders: A Favorite Poem Reading With Mass Poetry

31

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories

1

Democracy: A Case Study

2
3
4

Considering Matthew Shepard: A Boston Day of Reflection

5
6
7

F*ck Love: An evening with MICHAEL and SARAH BENNETT

8

JOHN DANIELLE (Wolf in the White Van) reads from his latest at Harvard Book Store

AYELET WALDMAN at Brookline Booksmith

9
10

Modern Death- How Medicine Changed the End of Life

11
12
13
14
15

WLP Publishing Series Presents: Cuba and the Embattled Book

16

Gender, Politics, and Imagination- with JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN

A Night of Memoir in J.P. with MINDY FRIED and CAROLINE HELLER

A Night of Poetry at Porter Square Books

17

Meet the Author: ROXANE GAY at Cambridge Public Library

18
19
20
21
22

YUVAL NOAH HARARI on A Brief History of Tomorrow

Christina Baker Kline at Boston Public Library

Pulitzer Prize Winner MEGAN MARSHALL on ELIZABETH BISHOP

All Tomorrow’s Parties: ROB SPILLMAN & NINA MACLAUGHLIN

23

African American Poetry and Blackness in the 21st Century

24
25
26
27
28

Love and Literature: A Panel on Romance at the Boston Public Library

1

Animals Strike Curious Poses, A Novel by ELENA PASSARELLO

2
3

GARRARD CONLEY and TAYLOR LARSEN at Harvard Book Store

4
5

The Boston Abolitionists: Actors from the Poets Theatre

+ Export Events

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.