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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 August 2016

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 A Night of Crime Fiction at Brookline Booksmith Reif Larsen & Laura van den Berg at Porter Square Books	2 Literary Beacon Hill: the 20th Century Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident Boston’s South End at the Provincetown Library The Battle of the Soul of Marriage	3 Jeffrey Toobin at the Brattle Theater A Night of Poetry at Porter Square Books	4 “Get Lit After Work” With Val Wang Do Finns Do It Better? A Conversation with Anu Partanen	5 Penn Jillette at Brookline Booksmith Dire Literary Series	6 Comparing Animal Skeletons at Newtonville Books Punk Rock Storytime with Eric Morse	7 Punk Rock Storytime with Eric Morse Literary Tour of Beacon Hill
8 Fly-Fishing and Friendship at Dartmouth GrubStreet and Harvard Book Store Present: New Voices in Fiction	9 Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident Grub Street and Harvard Book Store Present: Annie Dewitt The Cocktail Hour Garden at Porter Square Books	10 The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living	11 “Get Lit After Work” with Regie Gibson A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks	12	13 A Reading from Porter Square Books’ Baristas and Booksellers	14
15 Bookbuilders of Boston: Monthly Networking Event Novelists Liz Moore and Nellie Hermann	16 Jennifer Haigh at Newtonville Books Dead in Good Company: A Celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery Garth Williams, Great American Illustrator	17 Literary Pub Trivia at Trident Booksellers Jacqueline Woodson Interviewed by Callie Crossley Amy Gottlieb, author of THE BEAUTIFUL POSSIBLE	18 “Get Lit After Work” With David Gullette	19 The 2nd Annual Boston Film Gala	20 The 2nd Annual Boston Film Gala	21
22	23 Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident Brookline Booksmith welcomes Dr. Nicholas Dodman	24 Free Brown Bag Lunch Writing Series at Grubstreet The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir	25 GrubStreet Open House Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back	26	27	28
29 Harvard Book Store Hosts an Evening with Pangyrus The Story of a Girl with a Quirky Mind, an Eccentric Family, and Oh Yes, a Disability	30 Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident Teaching Religion in an Age of Tolerance	31

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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.