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";  See what else the media is saying about us!

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.