It’s been a rollercoaster of a year in Boston, filled with both tragedy and triumph. Now the historic city’s literary community is developing what they are calling the first planned literary district in the United States. Led by the brilliant folks at Grub Street, Boston’s fantastic independent center for creative writing, the literary cultural district project aims to capitalize on the city’s prominent literary heritage and be in place by 2015.

They are still working on the boundaries of a loosely defined literary map, but the literary district will definitely include the amazing Boston Athenæum, Beacon Hill, the Boston Public Library and Copley Square, Washington Street and historic buildings related to Boston’s famous literary figures such as Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sylvia Plath.

The literary district project will include walking tours, book festivals, special exhibitions, literary-related street art, interactive installations and, of course, the obligatory apps. I’m game. What about the rest of you bibliophiles?