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Boston By Foot Literary Landmarks Walking Tour

Saturday, May 25 10:00a

Our literary stroll highlights the homes and haunts of such great Victorians as Hawthorne, Thoreau, Alcott and Longfellow. Individually, they were writers and poets without equal...

Meet the “Ordinary” People of Early Boston with Author Joanne Lloyd

Thursday, May 30 6:30p

Vilna Shul - Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

Are you ever curious about the lives of the shop owners, tailors, writers, artists and the other "ordinary" people who helped make Boston the city that it is today? The Vilna Shul and the Beaco...

Bill Thibodeau Book Launch and Reception

Tuesday, Jun 4 7:30p

Boston Center for the Arts, Boston

Poet, speaker, and teacher Bill Thibodeau will celebrate the launch of his second book, "The Watchman," at the Calderwood Pavilion. Sam Cornish, Poet Laureate of Boston, will present opening remarks.

Stories for Families Kabbalat Shabbat

Friday, Jun 7 6:00p

Vilna Shul - Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

The Vilna Shul welcomes the whole family for a special Kabbalat Shabbat with storyteller Cindy Rivka Marshall...

Reading and Discussion with Tony Cape

Thursday, Jun 20 7:00p

Trident Booksellers and Cafe, Boston

Diamond Highway is a candid account of the author’s ten years of household service to the Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. Join Tony Cape for a reading and discussion of the book.

Play Reading with the Vagabond Theatre Group

Thursday, May 23 7:00p

Trident Booksellers and Cafe, Boston

Vagabond Theatre Group’s There Will Be Words is a new play reading series aimed at introducing original works. Following the reading, audience members will have the opportunity to discuss the script.

Neil Gaiman & Chip Kidd Discuss "Make Good Art"

Wednesday, Jun 5 6:30p

Oberon, Cambridge

Presented by the Boston Book Festival...

826 Benefit: Dead Authors

Saturday, Jun 22 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Brookline Booksmith teams up with 826 to bring literary legends back from the dead...

Breakwater Reading Series

Friday, Jun 21 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

A night of new stories, essays, and poems by MFA candidates from Emerson, BU, and UMass Boston.

BASH Reading Series ft. Dan Chelotti

Friday, Jun 14 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

Bringing the freshest and finest voices to Boston.

Kathleen Spivack - With Robert Lowell and His Circle

Saturday, Jun 29 7:00p

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline

In an absorbing and evocative memoir, Kathleen Spivack tells of her time at Boston University studying under Robert Lowell, with classmates Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, and more...

Author Visit: Ted Reinstein

Thursday, Sep 12 7:00p

Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley

Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for "Chronicle," WCVB-TV/Boston's award-winning-and America's longest-running, locally-produced-nightly news magazine since 1997...