Lit Boston: What’s Happening in January?
In the January 2018 edition of "Best of Boston," we bring you our top Boston lit events this month, most curated from the Boston Literary District's event calendar, an essential source of literary goodness.
Dire Series at The Middle East, Feat. Laura Van Den Berg
When: Jan 6, 3pm-5pm; Where: The Middle East, 480 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.
Award winning novelist and short story writer Laura Van Den Berg appears with writer Mark Saba and poet Meg Smith.
Mass Mouth Story Slam at Trident
When: Jan 9, 7pm-8:30pm; Where: Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 338 Newbury Street, Boston.
Sign up on the night to tell a five-minute story on the theme of "toast" in Trident book store's cosy upstairs cafe.
Sam Graham-Felsen Presents Green: A Novel
When: Jan 13, 6pm-8:00pm; Where: Harvard Book Store & Cafe, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome journalist and Harvard grad Sam Graham-Felsen for a discussion of his debut novel, Green.
Exodus from Dixie: The Great Migration as a Social Movement
When: Jan 17, 6pm-7pm; Where: Boston Athenæum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston.
Davarian Baldwin explores the great migration of 1915-30 and why it took place.
Arlington Author Salon, Feat. Annie Hartnett & Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
When: Jan 18, 7:30pm-9pm; Where: Kickstand Cafe, 594 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington.
Grub instructor Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, and Novel Generator instructor Annie Hartnett, author of Rabbit Cake read on the theme of "family binds."
Mira T. Lee Presents Everything Here Is Beautiful: A Novel
When: Jan 19, 7:00pm; Where: Harvard Book Store & Cafe, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome celebrated local writer Mira T. Lee for a discussion of her debut novel, Everything Here Is Beautiful. She will be joined in conversation by journalist and New York magazine editor Lisa Miller.
To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism at Harvard Book Store
When: Jan 30, 6pm-7:30pm. Where: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.
Rob Rieman in coversation with Christopher Lydon at Harvard Book Store, to discuss Rieman's book, To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism.
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