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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 November 2016

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
	1 James Boice reads from his new novel, THE SHOOTING Ferrante Night Fever	2 The Haymarket Project at Boston Public Library Francine Prose at Harvard Book Store Ta-Nehisi Coates via Video Live Stream- “When Will France Have Its Barack Obama?”	3 Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award of 1916 A Discussion of Relationships Between Artists with Authors Sebastian Smee and Rachel Corbett Paula Bennett, Imagining Ichabod	4 Dire Literary Series Pulitzer Prize Winner “Wit” presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston	5 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Join Award-winning Children’s Author Tomie dePaola at I Am Books Pulitzer Prize Winner “Wit” by Margaret Edson presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston	6 Pulitzer Prize Winner “Wit” presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks
7	8 Massmouth Story Slam	9 The South End Authors’ Book Festival Novel Incubator Open House and Info Session	10 Pulitzer Prize Winner “Wit” presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston	11 Rae Armantrout and Fanny Howe at Harvard Book Store	12	13
14 White Rabbit Red Rabbit	15 An Evening with Garth Risk Hallberg, bestselling author of CITY ON FIRE David Hajdu on Pop Music in America Ha Jin at The Brookline Booksmith	16 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Dining Out in Boston: A Culinary History John Edgar Wideman on Writing to Save a Life Anna Kendrick presents “Scrappy Little Nobody” Take a Writing Workshop with Mark Kramer, editor of Telling True Stories	17 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas The Band’s Robbie Robertson	18 Happy Hour Writing Session Zadie Smith reads from her new novel, SWING TIME Daniel Levitin – A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age	19 Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta Am I Alone Here?	20 SOLD OUT: Sen. Bernie Sanders for Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
21	22 Pilgrims, Puritans, and Shakespeare’s Wicked Stage Steven Johnson on How Play Made the Modern World	23	24	25	26 Indies First Day at Porter Square Books	27
28 Michael Chabon at Brookline Booksmith	29 Brookline Booksmith and WBUR present “A Night of Ferrante Fever” An Evening with the Harvard Lampoon	30 Spring 2017 Open House and Showcase Caitlin Moran’s Moranifesto! An Evening with Novelists Cheryl Della Pietra, (GONZO GIRL), and Louie Cronin, (EVERYONE LOVES YOU BACK) Artists and Authors of the Arnold Arboretum

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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.