Events for January 2020

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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 January 2020 › Signing

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6	7 Miranda Popkey presents TOPICS OF CONVERSATION: A NOVEL in conversation with Nina MacLaughlin at Harvard Book Store	8 BJ Fogg presents TINY HABITS: THE SMALL CHANGES THAT CHANGE EVERYTHING at Harvard Book Store	9	10 Peggy Orenstein presents BOYS & SEX: YOUNG MEN ON HOOKUPS, LOVE, PORN, CONSENT AND NAVIGATING THE NEW MASCULINITY in conversation with Richard Weissbourd at Harvard Book Store	11	12
13 Joanne Chang presents PASTRY LOVE: A BAKER’S JOURNAL OF FAVORITE RECIPES at Harvard Book Store	14 Garth Greenwell presents CLEANNESS at Harvard Book Store	15 Liz Moore presents LONG BRIGHT RIVER: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store	16 Anna Wiener presents UNCANNY VALLEY: A MEMOIR at Harvard Book Store Matthew Goodman presents THE CITY GAME: TRIUMPH, SCANDAL, AND A LEGENDARY BASKETBALL TEAM at Porter Square Books	17	18	19
20	21 Stephanie Land presents MAID: HARD WORK, LOW PAY, AND A MOTHER’S WILL TO SURVIVE at Harvard Book Store	22 Steve Inskeep presents AN IMPERFECT UNION:HOW JESSIE AND JOHN FREMONT MAPPED THE WEST, INVENTED CELEBRITY, AND HELPED CAUSE THE CIVIL WAR at Brattle Theatre Alex Myers presents CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store	23 James Wood presents SERIOUS NOTICING: SELECTED ESSAY, 1997-2019 at Harvard Book Store Tell-All Boston with Calvin Hennick at Porter Square Books	24 Jeanine Cummins presents AMERICAN DIRT in conversation with Shannon Dooling at WBUR CitySpace Meng Jin presents LITTLE GODS: A NOVEL at Harvard Book Store	25	26
27 Kim Ghattas presents BLACK WAVE: SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN, AND THE FORTY-YEAR RIVALRY THAT UNRAVELED CULTURE, RELIGION, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MIDDLE EAST at Harvard Book Store	28 Jonathan Rosenberg presents DANGEROUS MELODIES: CLASSICAL MUSIC IN AMERICA FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE COLD WAR at Harvard Book Store	29 E. Patrick Johnson presents HONEYPOT: BLACK SOUTHERN WOMEN WHO LOVE WOMEN in conversation with Angela Ards at Harvard Book Store	30 Jessica Stern presents MY WAR CRIMINAL: PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH AN ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE at Harvard Book Store	31 Beth Blum presents THE SELF-HELP COMPULSION: SEARCHING FOR ADVICE IN MODERN LITERATURE in conversation with Louis Menand at Harvard Book Store

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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.