Lit Crawl Boston Crawls Again: How It Began, How It Evolved, and How It's Returning In Person on June 10

By Jessica A. Kent
May 24, 2021

By early March 2020, the Boston Book Festival’s annual Lit Crawl was well on its way to a fourth year of fun, eclectic, and non-traditional literary events to be held in Central Square a few months later in June 2020. The presenters were committed, new local partnerships and venues were locked in, and logistics had already fallen into place.

And then, as we all know, the world shut down.

Now, in anticipation of Lit Crawl’s return on June 10, 2021 as an in-person event — the first major in-person literary event in Boston since the pandemic — I spoke with James Sullivan, Alysia Abbott, Carlin Carr, and Norah Piehl of the Lit Crawl planning committee to find out how Lit Crawl originated here in Boston and how it evolved, what it was like planning a live event during a pandemic, and what attendees can expect for June 10.

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