Events for October 2018

Who, What, Where

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 2018 › Book Talk

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 MARK WARREN and DAVID GOODMAN, editors of Lift Us Up, in conversation with contributors and community activists CARLOS OJOS and GLORYA WORNUM	2 Suffolk University Library Speaker Series: LORENZO PETRUZZIELLO Memoirist SARAH SMARSH talks about debut book Heartland with author LINDA K. WERTHEIMER HEATHER ABEL and JESSICA KEENER at Belmont Books Author BELLE BRETT Launches “Gina in the Floating World” at Porter Square Books	3 GennaRose Nethercott and Mary Kovaleski Byrnes	4 TIM MOHR, author of Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall MITALI PERKINS at Belmont Books	5	6	7
8	9	10 DOUG BURGESS in conversation with HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN	11 IMANI PERRY, author of Looking for Lorraine: the Radical and Radiant Life of Lorraine Hansberry, in conversation with Tracey Heather Strain, documentary filmmaker, “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” (PBS American Masters) Meet the Author: LILLIAN LI, author of Number One Chinese Restaurant Author JENN ABELSON and Boston Globe’s MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN	12 Dire Literary Series Finale with ELIZABETH GRAVER and other writers MADELINE MILLER, author of Circe, at Belmont Books	13	14
15 Aperitivo with the Author: LORENZO PETRUZZIELLO at Eataly Frederick Douglass – Prophet of Freedom	16 DANIEL GOLDEN: Spy Schools Paperback Launch	17 Author Talk and Book Signing with BARBARA BERENSEN	18 COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER, author of The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents J. Anthony Lukas Book Awards’ 20th Anniversary RAMIE TARGOFF on “Renaissance Woman” at Belmont Books	19 Author B.A. SHAPIRO presents new novel	20	21
22	23 Book Launch for VIRGINIA PYE’s Shelf Life of Happiness	24 JENNIFER EGAN reading at Emerson College Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China SUSAN K. HAMILTON at Belmont Books	25 Speculative Boston presents JULIE C. DAY, HILLARY MONAHAN, and PAUL TREMBLAY TOMMY ORANGE, author of the critically acclaimed novel There There, to speak at Inly School HOWARD MANSFIELD at Belmont Books	26 Eugene O’Neill –Banned in Boston, 1929 Middays at the Meeting House, Eugene O’Neill –Banned in Boston, 1929	27	28
29 Dr. CRYSTAL FLEMING, author of How to Be Less Stupid About Race In Conversation: Authors JENNA BLUM and RANDY SUSAN MEYERS, Partners in Public Dialogue with VILNA SHUL and Old South Meeting House TOM CALVIN at Belmont Books	30 BEN BRADLEE JR. on “The Forgotten”	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.