Four Stories is a monthly literary series bridging Greater Boston’s nightlife and arts community (and now Osaka's and Tokyo's, too!). Each event is held in a club, bar, or lounge, and features appearances from some of the most acclaimed authors in the nation, all reading their work under a unified theme.

The idea: to bring writers and readers, intellectuals and club-goers, friends and interested people together in a more upscale environment than a bookstore, to think, drink, eat, talk, laugh, hear stories, trade tales. It's simple, amusing, thought-provoking, and free for entry.

The experience: like a 19th-Century salon, only 150 years later―same socializing, same witty banter, corsets optional.

The media raves: The Boston Globe calls Four Stories "the city's hippest reading series," and the Improper Bostonian names it the city's Best!  See what else the media is saying about us!

The Four Stories style of literary investigation: ask the best question; win a free drink!

See the scene: Visit the Four Stories Flickr Web site or download free MP3s & slideshows from past events.

Hear about the next Four Stories event.

Four Stories was founded and is run by freelance writer Tracy Slater.  The Boston events are being co-sponsored by Gary Strack of the hugely hip Enormous Room, Tim Huggins and the fabulous Newtonville Books, and the friends-of-writers everywhere, PEN New England.

Miss an event? Catch the stories anyway by downloading mp3s from our past events.