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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 September 2016

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
			1 The Art of Rivalry at Harvard Book Store	2 Lawrence Wright at Harvard Book Store The Dire Literary Series On Autism in Adulthood	3	4
5	6 Memoir Giantess Mary Karr at Brookline Booksmith	7 Two journalists on Political History and the 2016 Election	8 Jonathan Safran Foer at Brookline Booksmith	9 The Story behind FDR’s “Gatekeeper”	10 How to Raise Human Beings	11 Jef Czekaj’s Dog Rules
12	13 Michael Patrick MacDonald at the Boston Public Library Peter Ho Davies and Celeste Ng discuss THE FORTUNES	14 John Freeman and Claire Messud on the Best New Writing on Family Tim Murphy in conversation with Scott Heim	15 Mara Wilson (aka Matilda) at Harvard Book Store Karin Tanabe, author of The Gilded Years: A Novel Hannah Pittard: Listen to Me	16	17	18
19 Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder The Black Prince of Florence Teddy Wayne: Loner	20 Stacy Schiff on The Witches of Salem All Set for Black, Thanks: A New Look at Mourning	21 Ian McEwan in conversation with Steven Pinker Angela Davis at Emerson College	22 So Much to Be Done: The Writing of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner	23 The Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods Emma Donoghue at Harvard Book Store	24	25 Actor Alan Cumming in Conversation with Jared Bowen
26	27 Authors Zoe Zolbrod and Joanna Rakoff	28 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Cuban Heavy Metal Sci-Fi at BU	29 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady Ann Patchett at Harvard Book Store	30 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Frederick Douglass Cuban Sci-Fi Rockstar at the 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.