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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 October 2016

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3 Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy	4 Artweek at the Omni Parker House Craft on Draft: The Working Lives of Characters Lev Grossman at Harvard Book Store	5 Fantasy Master Garth Nix on Goldenhand Bill Ayers shares his “Radical Manifesto” at Harvard Square Book Store	6 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Rita Dove reads with BU alum Duy Doan	7 James T. Kloppenberg discusses Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought Dire Literary Series	8 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta	9
10 Ruth Franklin on the Haunted Life of Shirley Jackson	11 Stephen Kendrick discusses Mt. Auburn Cemetery at The Boston Athenaeum Patti Smith in Conversation with Michael Patrick MacDonald	12 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Robert Kanigel discusses Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs	13 The Inaugural Boston Lit Crawl Mike Love: My Life as a Beach Boy	14 Happy Hour Writing Session with GrubStreet John Kaag and Andre Dubus III on American Philosophy One Man’s Journey to Adulthood: Judah Leblang’s on life past 40	15 Boston Book Festival Watchdog: The Role of the Journalist in a Democracy	16 Conspirators: The German Anti-Nazi Underground
17 Future Sex: A Conversation with author, Emily Witt and Globe Columnist, Meredith Goldstein A Night of Poetry with Ellen Steinbaum	18 Dan Barry, The Boys in the Bunkhouse	19 Do Parents Matter?	20 Jonathan Lethem at Harvard Book Store Elissa Altman – Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw	21 Natasha K. Warikoo on “The Diversity Bargain” Mark Greif – Against Everything: Essays	22 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta	23 Dining Out in Boston: A Culinary History
24 Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers Bestselling author T.C. Boyle reads from THE TERRANAUTS	25 Do You Bite Your Thumb At Me? A Wicked Shakespeare Smackdown at the Public Library	26 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta	27 Poe Lives! Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta	28 Authors Margot Livesey and Regina McBride Share Stories of Horses and Ghosts	29 This Monstrous Thing: A Young Adult Reimagining of Frankenstein	30
31 Teju Cole, shares his essay collection KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.