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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 June 2016

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		1	2 Boston’s Creation of Self: A Walking Tour	3	4 Boston Book Festival Presents Hubbub Construct Your Self, Write Your Story: Mask Making Workshop for Kids Brown Box Theatre Project’s BRILLIANT TRACES	5 Brown Box Theatre Project’s BRILLIANT TRACES
6	7	8 Mary Roach discusses Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War	9 Ann Leary discusses her new novel, The Children	10 Story Time with Jujube at the Boston Public Library Yaa Gyasi reads from her acclaimed debut novel, HOMEGOING Brown Box Theatre Project’s BRILLIANT TRACES	11 The Pineapple Project at the Boston Public Library Brown Box Theatre Project’s BRILLIANT TRACES	12 Brown Box Theatre Project’s BRILLIANT TRACES
13 Ian Frazier discusses his latest book, HOGS WILD: SELECTED REPORTING PIECES	14	15 Susan Faludi on her memoir, IN THE DARKROOM Writers Paula Whyman and Joanna Rakoff at Porter Square Books	16 Poetry Night at Newtonville Books Annie Proulx reads from her latest novel at Harvard Book Store Getting Lost Among the Birds in Brookline	17 Concerts in the Courtyard: Duo Esplanade at the Boston Public Library Alain de Botton on “The Course of Love” “A Young Black Man’s Education” at Porter Square Books	18 Learn “How to Ruin Everything” at the Brookline Booksmith Unlocked: An Evening with the Back Porch Collective	19
20 Sebastian Junger on Tribes, at Porter Square Books	21 The Story Behind one of America’s Great Illustrators: Garth Williams	22 Up-and-coming Boston Writers Take the Stage at Trident Booksellers	23 GrubStreet Launch Lab at Harvard Bookstore	24	25	26
27 Boston Noir at Newtonville Books	28 Coloring and Craft Beer at Trident Booksellers Pit Bull: The Battle Over An American Icon A Tale of a Dog Lost and Found at Newtonville Books The True Tale of a Vaudevillian Who Fooled Hitler	29 Jefferson’s America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation	30 Author Emily Barton 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.