Best of Boston: What's Happening in July?
Welcome to our sixth installment of Best of Boston, filled to the brim with literary goodness to add to your calendar. Take a peek at Grub's assemblage of all the most exciting events going on around town next month.
Friday, July 8th, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Featuring readings from Josh Cook, a writer and bookseller, and Caitlin Avery, a writer and actress. Their readings will be followed by an open mic. Click here for more info.
Writer's Infusion with Author Connie Mayo
Wednesday, July 13th, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Writer's Infusion, the Internet show designed to bring the experience of a writer's group to the wider community, is joining up with author Connie Mayo to critique submissions for free. Choose a few pages from your latest work and submit them to us. We’ll choose several entries to critique, where each writer can join us on stage for a live taping of his/her critique session. Click here to learn more.
Bob Proehl Reads from A Hundred Thousand Worlds: A Novel
Wednesday, July 13th, 7:00pm-8:15pm
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist Bob Proehl for a reading from his novel A Hundred Thousand Worlds. This event is free and open to the public, and A Hundred Thousand Worlds will be 20% off the day of the event. Click here for more info.
Get Lit After Work with Kate Bolick
Thursday, July 14th, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Boston Literary District launches “Get Lit After Work,” our pop-up literary biergarten in front of the Cheers bar in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace with Kate Bolick, author of the New York Times bestseller Spinster: Making A Life of One's Own. This talk is free, open to the public, and will be followed by a book signing. Click here for more info.
Lindsey Hatton Reads from Monterey Bay: A Novel
Tuesday, July 19th, 7:00pm-8:15pm
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome local debut author Lindsay Hatton for a reading from her novel Monterey Bay. This event is free and open to the public, and Monterey Bay will be 20% off the day of the event. Click here for more info.
Benjamin Rybeck Reads from The Sadness
Wednesday, July 20th, 7:00pm-8:15pm
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist Benjamin Rybeck for a reading from his book The Sadness. This event is free and open to the public, and The Sadness will be 20% off the day of the event. Click here for more info.
Get Lit After Work with Howard Axelrod
Thursday, July 21st, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Boston Literary District hosts the second installment of “Get Lit After Work,” our pop-up literary biergarten, in front of the Cheers bar in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace with Howard Axelrod, author of the critically acclaimed Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude. This talk is free, open to the public, and will be followed by a book signing. Click here for more info.
Get Lit After Work with Michelle Hoover
Thursday, July 28th, 6:30pm-7:30pm
The Boston Literary District welcomes Michelle Hoover for our third installment of “Get Lit After Work,” our pop-up literary biergarten in front of the Cheers bar in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Michelle Hoover will discuss and share excerpts from her latest novel, Bottomland. Michelle Hoover teaches at GrubStreet, where she leads the Novel Incubator program. This talk is free, open to the public, and will be followed by a book signing. Click here for more info.
The Frost Place Poetry Seminar
Sunday, July 31st-Friday, August 5th
Spend five days with a select community of poets exploring your work in the context of a variety of poetry ancestors and contemporaries. Participants will have their poems given generous attention, and on the final night will read their work at the Henry Holt Barn at the Frost Place. Click here for more info.
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