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Leslie Jamison

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Publicity: Chloe Texier-Rose at Little, Brown: Chloe.Texier-Rose [at] hbgusa [dot] com

Speaking Engagements: Trinity Ray at trinity [at] tuesdayagency [dot] com.

Literary Representation: Jin Auh at jauh [at] wylieagency [dot] com

Twitter: @lsjamison

2025 EVENTS

Wednesday January 15. Conversation with Aria Aber about Good Girl. Books Are Magic. Brooklyn, NY.

Wednesday January 29. Conversation with Kristen Martin about The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood. Greenlight Bookstore.

Thursday February 6. Conversation with Ruth Franklin about The Many Lives of Anne Frank. Greenlight Bookstore.

Tuesday February 18. Conversation with Madeleine Watts about Elegy, Southwest. McNally Jackson Seaport.

Tuesday, March 25. Conversation with Edna Bonhomme about A History of the World in Six Plagues. New York Historical Society.

Sunday, April 13. On Breathing with Jamieson Webster. Pioneer Works, 2pm.

Friday, April 25. Miami University. Keynote, Marianne D. McComb Creative Writing Conference.

Tuesday, May 13. Forever Magazine. Truth in Disguise. Arlo Hotel Mirror Bar.

Tuesday, May 27. Launch of Chyana Marie Sage’s Soft as Bones. Sutton Studios. Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Wednesday, June 4. Launch of Hala Alyan’s I’ll Tell You When I’m Home. The Strand. NY, NY.

Thursday, June 5. “Archiving Children and Their Worlds.” Conversation with Hannah Zeavin and Annie Baker. McNally Jackson Seaport. NY, NY.

Monday, June 9. Conversation with Melissa Febos about The Dry Season. Public Records, Brooklyn.

Monday, June 16. Conversation with Catherine Lacey about The Mobius Book. McNally Jackson Seaport.

PAST EVENTS

SPLINTERS PAPERBACK events

Monday February 10. Franklin Park Reading Series: A celebration of Splinters. With Anelise Chen, Rachel Lyon, Jessica Hoppe, and Sarah Perry.

Wednesday February 12. Splinters Paperback launch with Susan Minot and Emmeline Clein. The Strand. 7pm.

Tuesday March 4. Porter Square Books with Louisa Thomas. Cambridge, MA.

Wednesday March 5. Women & Children First. Chicago, IL. With Megan Stielstra.

Thursday March 6. Magers & Quinn. Minneapolis, MN. With Peter Bognanni.

SPLINTERS BOOK TOUR 2024

Launch!!!! Tuesday 2/20 @ 7:00PM | Brooklyn, NY
Center for Fiction in conversation with Mary Karr

Wednesday 2/21 @ 6:00PM | Cambridge, MA
Brattle Theatre in conversation with Claire Messud

Thursday 2/22 @ 7:00PM | Louisville, KY
Crescent Hill Baptist Church in conversation with Emily Matchar

Friday 2/23 @ 7:00PM | Washington, DC
Politics & Prose Bookstore in conversation with The New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz

Tuesday 2/27 @ 7:00PM | Madison WI
Central Library in conversation with Porter Shreve

Wednesday 2/28 @ 7:00PM | Iowa City, IA
Prairie Lights Bookstore in conversation with Kaveh Akbar

Thursday 2/29 @ 7:00PM | Austin, TX
Book People in Conversation with Roger Reeves

Monday 3/4 @ 7:00PM | Portland, OR
Powell’s City of Books in conversation with Scott Korb

Tuesday 3/5 @ 7:00PM | Seattle, WA
Seattle Public Library (Central Branch) in conversation with Claire Dederer

Wednesday 3/6 @ 7:30PM | San Francisco, CA
Books Inc. Opera Plaza in conversation with R.O. Kwon

Thursday 3/7 @ 7:00PM | Los Angeles, CA
Mark Taper Auditorium at the Central Library in conversation with Sarah Manguso

Monday 3/18, FAN (Digital event) with Ashley Ford

Wednesday 3/20, Riffraff Bookstore, Providence, RI, with Lucas Mann

Thursday, 3/28. NYU: The New Salon. New York, NY. 7pm.

Thursday, 4/11, New York, NY, Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University
w/ Emmeline Clein, Eliza Callahan, & Chloe Cooper Jones

Thursday, 4/18, Pete’s Candy Store, w/ Emily Raboteau, Priscilla Gilman, and Chin-Sun Lee

Friday, April 19, Eagle Harbor Book Co., Bainbridge Island, with Jon Mooallem

Saturday, May 4, Montclair Literary Festival w/ Emily Raboteau (Open Book/Open Mind)

May 11-12, Melbourne Writers Festival

May 18-19, Auckland Writers Festival

May 22, Table of Contents: Splinters. Little Egg. Williamsburg

Saturday, June 1, Graveside Variety with Amanda Palmer. Woodstock, NY

Wednesday, June 12, with Zoe Kazan. McNally Jackson Seaport. Manhattan, NY. Hosted by the Authors’ Guild.

2024 EVENTS

Tuesday 3/12, McNally Jackson Seaport, with Nam Le, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

Monday May 6, Books Are Magic (Montague), with Lilly Dancyger, launching First Love

Wednesday, May 29, P&T Knitwear, Lucas Mann, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances

Sunday, July 14. Online craft class: Landscapes of Feeling. [SOLD OUT].

Thursday, July 25. Event for Carrie Carolyn Coco, with Sarah Gerard. The Strand Bookstore. Manhattan, NY.

September 11. Launch of First in the Family. In conversation with Jessica Hoppe. McNally Jackson SoHo. 6:30pm.

October 9. On Splinters. Part of the Missouri Review’s Miller Conversations on Publishing. Columbia, Missouri.

October 24. University of Michigan Zell Visiting Writers Series. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

October 30. On Rebecca Godfrey’s Peggy. A conversation with David Ebershoff and Megan Abbott. Center for Fiction.

2023

Wednesday, February 1. Launch of Caleb Smith’s Thoreau’s Axe. Greenlight Bookstore. 7:30 PM.

Thursday, February 2. Forgotten Gems with Antonio Monda. Casa Italiana. 7:00pm.

Wednesday, March 1. Launch of Alice Robb’s Don’t Think, Dear. Rizzoli Bookstore, NY. 6pm.

Thursday, March 2. Launch of Nina Siegal’s The Diary Keepers. The Strand. 7pm.

Tuesday, March 7. Launch of Madelaine Lucas’s Thirst for Salt. McNally Jackson Seaport.

Monday, April 3-Friday April 7. Hurst Visiting Professor. Washington University in St Louis.

Tuesday, April 11. In conversation with Maggie Smith for the launch of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL. St. Ann’s Church, 7PM.

Wednesday, April 12. In conversation with Will Arbery and Chloe Cooper Jones. Center for Fiction.

Wednesday, April 19. Launch of Jaime Greene’s The Possibility of Life. Books Are Magic.

Friday, April 21. Keynote Speaker, Research to Recovery Conference. Virginia Commonwealth University.

Friday, June 9—Sunday June 11. Litfest. Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop. Denver, CO.

Thursday, Sept 21. Keynote Conversation with John Freyer. Recovery in Practice Conference. The Forum at Columbia University.

Friday, Sept 22. Recovery, Memoir, and Daily Practice. Panel with Mary Karr and Elizabeth Crane. The Forum at Columbia University.

Wednesday, Oct 18. Conversation with Vauhini Vara. This is Salvaged. New York Public Library.

Tuesday, Nov 7. Paperback launch of Lynn Steger' Strong’s Flight. Barnes & Noble, UES.

Wednesday, Nov 8. Launch of Stephanie Land’s Class. Powerhouse Arena, DUMBO.

January 2024. Visiting Writer, Institute of American Indian Arts. Santa Fe, NM.

2022

Friday, January 21. Launch event for Carl Fisher’s The Urge: Our History of Addiction. Hosted by Harvard Book Store. 7pm. Digital. Register here.

Thursday, February 10. Conversation about Heather Havrilesky’s Foreverland. Family Action Network. 8pm EST.

Thursday, February 17. Launch event for Emily Maloney’s Cost of Living. Hosted by Politics & Prose. Digital. Register here.

Tuesday, March 8. University of St. Thomas. St. Paul, Minnesota. O'Shaughnessy Educational Center. 7pm.

Tuesday, March 15. Body Work Virtual Launch, with Melissa Febos and Mary Karr. Hosted by Books Are Magic. Virtual.

Monday, March 21. Discussing Pathological, with Sarah Fay. Virtual. Hosted by Harvard Book Store.

Thursday, March 24. Letter to a Stranger book launch. In person. McNally Jackson, South Street Seaport.

Monday, April 11. Panel discussion about Letter to a Stranger. With Colleen Kinder. Hosted by Greenlight Books.

Friday, April 29. Panel discussion about Kate Zambreno’s To Write as if Already Dead. Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University. With Kate Zambreno, Sofia Samatar, Susan Bernofsky, and Jenny Davidson. 12:15 PM EST.

Monday, June 6. Event for Rainbow, Rainbow, with Lydia Conklin. Books Are Magic. Brooklyn, NY.

Friday, June 10-Sunday June 12. Lighthouse LitFest. Denver, CO.

Tuesday, August 9. Launch for Betsy Crane’s This Story Will Change. Greenlight Books. Brooklyn, NY.

Wednesday, August 17. Live from NYPL. With Isaac Fitzgerald.

Wednesday, September 14. Panel discussion of This Woman’s Work. Irish Arts Center. With Sinéad Gleeson, Jenn Pelly, and Sarah Corcoran. New York, NY.

Saturday, September 17. Artists in Recovery, with Hanif Abdurraquib and Kaveh Akbar. Literary Arts & Alano Club. Portland, OR.

Tuesday, October 4. Big Anxiety Festival. Melbourne, Australia. Digital event, live-screened and streaming online.

Wednesday, October 12. Online Craft Class: How to Begin. Co-taught with Colleen Kinder. Off Assignment.

Tuesday, November 22. Conversation with Allie Rowbottom about Aesthetica. McNally Jackson Seaport.

Tuesday, November 29. Conversation with Heather Radke about Butts. Literari, Ann Arbor.

Monday January 9-Tuesday January 10, 2023. Visiting Writer, Mountainview Grand MFA.

2021

Thursday, February 4. Storm at Split Rock: Empathy and Experimentation. 6pm. Conversation and exhibition presentation with Samara Golden, Karen Patterson, and Abby Lutz. Fabric Workshop and Museum.

Tuesday, February 16 and Wednesday February 17. Green Farms Academy. Digital Visit.

Wednesday, February 24. On Climate Writing (with Elizabeth Kolbert and Madeleine Watts). Center for Fiction.

Friday, April 2. Happy Hour Reading. A discussion with Claire Thomas about The Performance. 8:30pm EST. Hosted by Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop.

Friday, April 9. Launch of “Goodbye to All That.” Books Are Magic.

Wednesday, April 28. Launch of Thisbe Nissen’s “How Other People Make Love.” Hosted by This is a Bookstore.

Thursday, April 22, and Thursday April 29. McComb Conference. Miami University.

Wednesday, May 12. Discussing “Stranger Care” with Sarah Sentilles. Hosted by Greenlight Books.

Tuesday, June 2. Launch of “Pure Flame” with Michelle Orange. Hosted by Politics & Prose.

June 12-13. Lit Fest Workshop. Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop.

Thursday, June 17. York Festival of Ideas. Conversation with Molly McCully Brown about her essay collection, Places I’ve Taken My Body. 8 am EST, 1pm GMT.

Tuesday, July 6. Launch of Kristen Radtke’s SEEK YOU: A Journey Through American Loneliness. Hosted by the Center for Fiction.

Sunday, July 11. THE UNCANNY AND THE UNRULY: Writing From Personal Archives. Disquiet Dialogue. Craft Class. Register here.

July 22-23. Visiting Writer at Ashland University MFA.

Tuesday, July 27. Writing Female Power. Launch event for Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s FIERCE LITTLE THING. Square Books. 6pm EST.

Tuesday, August 3. Discussing The Contemporary American Essay, with Phillip Lopate and Margo Jefferson. Powerhouse Books.

Thursday, October 28. Conversation with Mary Gaitskill about The Devil’s Treasure. Hosted by Brazos Bookstore.

Tuesday, November 16. Hunter College MFA Visiting Writer.

2020

January 13-15: Visiting Writer, Pacific University. Seaside, Oregon

January 27: 92nd Street Y. 20th Anniversary, NYRB Classics. With Marlon James, Edwin Frank, and Colm Toibin.

January 29: Paperback launch of Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. The Strand. New York, NY.

March 10: In conversation with Rebecca Solnit about Recollections of My Nonexistence. Murmrr Ballroom. Brooklyn, NY.

March 25: In conversation with Sinéad Gleeson about Constellations. Books Are Magic. Brooklyn, NY.

April 5: PEN/Faulkner Literary Conversation: Radical Empathy. With Terese Marie Mailhot. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington DC.

April 17-18: Keynote Speaker, McComb Conference. Miami University. Miami, OH.

June 7: Discussion of Sinead Gleeson’s Constellations. Hosted by Politics and Prose.

June 23: Launch of Kyle McCarthy’s Everyone Knows How Much I Love You. Hosted by Greenlight Books.

June 26: Harvard Advocate Louis Begley Prize Reading. With Eva Rosenfeld. More information here.

July 1: Columbia University Nonfiction Coffeehouse. “On Literary Friendship.” Panel discussion with Kiki Petrosino, Nam Le, and Colleen Kinder. 8:30pm EST.

July 7: Herd Music Reading Series @ Columbia. With Tyler Budhram, Nada Faris, Mitchell Glazier, Nicole Saldarriaga and Kit Zauhar. 7pm. Join here.

July 8: Book launch for Ben Nugent’s Fraternity. Hosted by the Center for Fiction. 7:30pm EST. RSVP here.

July 9: Book launch for Robin Wasserman’s Mother Daughter Widow Wife. Hosted by Skylight Books. 6:30pm PST. RSVP here.

July 13: Columbia University Nonfiction Coffeehouse. “On Rejection.” Panel discussion with Kaveh Akbar, Jordan Kisner, Lynn Steger Strong, and Kiley Bense.

July 15: Book launch for Lynn Steger Strong’s Want. Hosted by McNally Jackson Books. 8:00pm EST. RSVP here.

July 28: Flowering and Decay. A discussion with artist Lauren Henschel about isolation, illness, and creativity in the pandemic era.

Duke Forum for Scholars and Publics. Register here.

August 11: Image Magazine Summer Stage. Conversation with Jamie Quatro about creative and spiritual practices during the pandemic. Register here.

September 14: Conversation with Sarah Ramey and Jamie Quatro about THE LADY’S HANDBOOK FOR HER MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS.

Hosted by Parnassus Books. Watch live. 7:30 PM EST.

Tuesday, October 6. Conversation with Casey Cep about Furious Hours. Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. 8pm EST. Register here.

Tuesday, October 13. West Cork Literary Festival. Conversation about Make It Scream, Make it Burn, with Sinéad Gleeson. 3pm EST. Register here.

Tuesday, October 20: Paperback launch of Make It Scream, Make It Burn. 8pm EST. Hosted by Powerhouse Books. Register here.

A conversation about essays & obsession with Greg Pardlo, Lynn Steger Strong, Andre Perry, and Esmé Weijun Wang.

Monday, October 26: Colby College Visiting Writers’ Series. Ed Kenney Memorial Creative Nonfiction Reading.

Wednesday, October 28: SUNY Canton Living Writers Series. 6:30 PM EST.

Friday, October 30: Hudson Valley Writers’ Center Virtual Gala.

Thursday, November 12: Digital Museum of Broken Relationships. With Kiki Petrosino, Olinka Vištica, Cecilia Laslo, and Kyle McCarthy.

A SHELF LIFE event hosted by the Virginia Festival of the Book. 12 PM EST.

 2019

January 10: Launch of Doug Bock Clarke’s The Last Whalers. Greenlight Bookstore. Brooklyn, NY.

January 15: The Strand Bookstore. With Jia Tolentino. New York, NY.

January 17: Pratt Library. With Adam Kaplin. Baltimore, MD.

January 18: Old Dominion Bookstore. With Allison Wright. Charlottesville, VA.

January 22: Family Action Network. With Catherine Lacey. Chicago, IL.

January 23: Madison Public Library. Madison, WI.

January 25: Book Soup. With Heather Havrilesky. West Hollywood, CA.

January 30: Books Are Magic. With Meghan O’Rourke. Brooklyn, NY.

 February 13: Launch of Briallen Hopper’s Hard to Love. Greenlight Bookstore. Brooklyn, NY.

 February 18: In conversation with Esme Wang about The Collected Schizophrenias. McNally Jackson Bookstore. New York, NY.

 April 10-12: Ithaca College and Wells College.

 April 30: Launch of What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About. With Michele Filgate, Melissa Febos, and Alexander Chee. McNally Jackson. New York, NY.

 May 1: Art of Fact Award / Brockport Writers’ Forum. Rochester, NY.

 May 8: Center for Fiction with Kate Zambreno.

Wednesday, September 11: In conversation with Rachel Monroe about Savage Appetites. Strand Books, New York, NY, 7:30 PM

 Friday, September 20: What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, w/ Alexander Chee, Melissa Febos, & Michele Filgate. New York, NY, Lillian Vernon Writers’ House, NYU, 5 PM

  

Make It Scream, Make It Burn (2019 Book Tour)

LAUNCH! Tuesday, September 24: Murmrr Lit & Community Bookstore (Tickets Here), Murmrr Ballroom, 17 Eastern Parkway, 7 PM

Wednesday, September 25: Politics & Prose, Washington DC. With Casey Cep.

Thursday, September 26: Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. With Belle Boggs.

Monday, September 30: Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA. With Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich.

Tuesday, October 1: Harvard University. With James Wood. 6pm. Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall. Harvard Yard.

Thursday, October 3: Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX. With Lacy M. Johnson.

Friday, October 4

 Afternoon Craft Seminar at Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop. Landscapes of Feeling. (Register Here).

 Reading at Tattered Cover, Denver, CO. With Joe Fassler.

Wednesday, October 9: Booksmith, San Francisco, CA. With Esmé Weijun Wang.

Thursday, October 10: Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA. With Chris Kraus.

Friday, October 18: Next Chapter Booksellers, St. Paul, MN. With Peter Bognanni.

Saturday, October 19: Wisconsin Book Festival. Madison, WI. Madison Library. 12 PM.

Wednesday, October 30: Symphony Space. New York, NY. With Yiyun Li. (Tickets Here)

Saturday, November 2: Iowa City, IA. 6pm. Hosted by the Tuesday Agency.

Sunday, November 3: Chicago Humanities Festival. Columbia College. 5pm, with Megan Stielstra.

Monday, November 4: Longform at the University of Pittsburgh. With Max Linsky.

Tuesday, November 12

 LIC Reading Series. On Female Rage. With Darcy Lockman, Shelly Oria, Lilly Dancyger.

LIC Bar, 45-58 Vernon Blvd. Long Island City.

Thursday, November 21

 Creativity, Addiction, and Mood Disorders. With Kay Jamison.

Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University.

Tuesday, December 3

 Spoken Interludes, with Elizabeth Strout and Pamela Paul.

Riverview, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.

Monday, December 9

 Franklin Park Reading Series.

Franklin Park Bar & Beer Garden.

 

2018

April 3, 2018--The Recovering Launch. Brooklyn Academy of Music with Greenlight Bookstore – in conversation with Mitchell Jackson
 
April 4, 2018 - Washington, DC
Politics & Prose – in conversation with Jamie Quatro
 
April 5, 2018 - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge Public Library presented by Harvard Book Store – in conversation with James Wood. 6:30 pm.
 
April 6, 2018 - New Haven, CT
Yale Grand Rounds. Connecticut Mental Health Center Auditorium. 34 Park St. 10:15-11:30. Signing at Atticus Books, 12pm-1pm.
 
April 9, 2018 - Portland, OR
Powell’s Books – in conversation with Elena Passarello
 
April 10, 2018 - Seattle, WA
Seattle Public Library presented by Elliott Bay Book Co. – in conversation with Claire Dederer
 
April 11, 2018 - Menlo Park, CA
Kepler’s Literary Foundation with Angie Coiro

April 12, 2018 - San Francisco, CA
Green Apple Books – in conversation with Anna Weiner
 
April 13, 2018 - Las Vegas, NV
The Believer Festival. The Amphitheater at Red Rock Canyon, 6:30pm-7:30pm.
 
April 15, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA
Skylight Books – in conversation with Maggie Nelson
 
April 16, 2018 - Pasadena, CA
Vroman’s Bookstore – in conversation with Michelle Huneven
 
April 17, 2018 - Albuquerque, NM
University of New Mexico, Zimmerman Library. 7pm.
 
April 19, 2018 - New York, NY
92nd Street Y – in conversation with Greg Pardlo
 
April 23, 2018 - Philadelphia, PA
Free Library of Philadelphia – in conversation with Marty Moss-Coane
 
April 24, 2018 - Minneapolis, MN
Magers & Quinn - in conversation with Sugi Ganeshananthan
 
April 25, 2018 - Iowa City, IA
Prairie Lights – in conversation with Charles D’Ambrosio
 
April 26, 2018 - Ann Arbor, MI
Literati Bookstore
 
April 27, 2018 - Detroit, MI
Nomads: A Reading Series for and by Immigrants

May 1-2 -- Sarah Lawrence College, Visiting Writer

May 8 -- Spoken Interludes, Hastings-on-Hudson

May 15--Caltech University, Visiting Writer

June 2, In Her Voice Festival, Toronto, Canada

June 9-10--Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers' Workshop, Denver CO

June 18 -- New York Public Library (Midtown Branch), with Cutter Wood

June 27-- Happy Endings Reading Series, Joe's Pub

September 14-15: Goodnight, Oslo Literary Festival; Oslo, Norway

September 20: Pete's Candy Store Reading Series, with Lucas Mann & Chelsea Hodson

September 26: Paragraph Reading Series, KGB Bar, with Idra Novey & Akil Kumarasamy

October 4: Barrie Cropper Memorial Lecture & Reading; University of San Diego

October 13--Morristown Book Festival, with Greg Pardlo

October 25--Southern Methodist University, Gilbert Lecture; Dallas, TX

October 27-28--Texas Book Festival

  

2017

Thursday, January 19. Launch of Mark Sundeen's The Unsettlers. McNally Jackson Books. New York, NY.

Wednesday, February 1. University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. 

Thursday, February 9. Reed College.

Wednesday, February 15. SCRATCH Anthology Reading. BookCourt. Brooklyn, NY.

Tuesday, February 21. Experiments and Disorders. Dixon Place. New York, NY.

Friday, March 17. Littfest, Speaker. Umeå, Sweden. March 2017.

Monday, March 20. Stadsbiblioteket, Speaker. Malmö, Sweden. March 2017.

Tuesday, March 21. Stadsbiblioteket, Speaker. Gothenburg, Sweden. March 2017.

Wednesday, March 22. Kulterhuset Stadsteatern, Speaker. Stockholm, Sweden. March 2017.

Thursday, March 30. Thomas Jefferson University. Philadelphia, PA.

Thursday, April 6. Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH.

Thursday, April 20. College of New Jersey.

Tuesday May 16-Thursday May 18. Harvard Medical School. Michael Marmor Visiting Artist.

Donaufestival, Speaker. Krems, Austria. May 2017.

Wednesday, August 8. WORD Bookstore, Brooklyn. 7 pm. Conversation with Lucy Ives about her novel, Impossible Views of the World.  

Thursday, September 14. Claremont-McKenna College Athenaeum. 

Wednesday, September 20. Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn. Conversation with Meghan O'Rourke.

Thursday, October 5. Center for Fiction. Conversation with Anuk Arudpragasm about his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage. 

Writer’s Block Festival. Louisville Literary Arts. October 21, 2017.

 

2016

Wednesday, January 6. New Hampshire Institute of Art. Visiting Writer

Friday, January 8-Saturday January 9: Bennington Writing Seminars, Visiting Writer.

Thursday, February 4. Lafayette College. John L. Hatfield Lecture. Easton, PA.

Wednesday, February 10. Book launch for Tony Tulathimutte's Private Citizens.  NYC. 

February 24-26. Texas State. San Marcos, TX.

Tuesday, March 1. Launch for Greg Jackson's Prodigals. Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn.

Wednesday, March 2, Boston College / Lowell Humanities Series.

Thursday, March 3, Rochester Arts & Lectures.

Tuesday, March 8. Paperback launch for Heidi Julavits's The Folded Clock. Word Bookstore, Brooklyn.

Monday, March 21. PEN/Faulkner Reading Series. With Mitchell Jackson. Folger Library. Washington DC.

Tuesday, March 22. Spring Visiting Writer, George Mason University.

Wednesday, March 23. Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ.

Friday, April 1. AWP. With Maggie Nelson & Geoff Dyer. 3:00 to 4:15. Exhibit Hall Level One.

Saturday, April 2. AWP. Panel with Mark Sundeen, Eric Puchner, Camille Dungy, and Amaud Jamaul Johnson. 10:30-11:45.                                  

April 13-14. Virginia Tech. With editor Ben George.

April 21-24. Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Galway, Ireland.

Wednesday, May 4. HI FI Reading Series. With Emma Borges-Scott, Kyle McCarthy, Evan James, and Joe Fassler. New York, NY.

Monday, May 9. Red Ink at Book Court. With Valeria Luiselli, Angela Flournoy, Katie Towler, and Michele Filgate. Brooklyn, NY.

Tuesday, May 17. Screening of It and discussion with Moira Weigel. BAM. Brooklyn, NY.

Wednesday, May 18. Launch for Robin Wasserman's Girls on Fire. PowerHouse Arena. DUMBO. Brooklyn, NY.

Monday, May 23. Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.

Saturday, June 4. Screening of Maggie Lee's Mommy and conversation with Maggie Lee. In conjunction with "Mirror Cells" exhibition. Whitney Museum. New York, NY.

Monday, July 18.  Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn. With Elisha Cooper for his book Falling.

Friday, August 5. Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT.

Wednesday, September 7. Whitman College Summer Reading Author. Walla Walla, Washington.

Saturday, September 17. Goddard College, visiting author.

Saturday, September 24. Baltimore Book festival.

Thursday, October 6. Creative Matters. Iowa City, IA.

Friday, October 7. Examined Life Conference. Iowa City, IA.

Friday, November 11. NYU Emerging Writers Reading. KGB Bar. New York, NY. 

Friday, November 18. The White Review U.S. Issue Launch. With Dottie Lasky and Jen George. Poets House. New York, NY. 6 pm.

 

2015

Wednesday, January 28. Rutgers MFA Visiting Writers Series. Camden, New Jersey.

Saturday, February 7. WORDFEST at Fresno State.

Thursday, February 12. Holy Cross. Working Writers Series. Worcester, Massachusetts. 

Tuesday, February 24. Trinity College. Hartford, Connecticut.

Monday, March 16. The Strand. New York, NY. With Sarah Manguso, conversation about her book Ongoingness.

Wednesday, March 18. Duke University.  Kenan Institute for Ethics and Center for Documentary Studies, Visiting Writers Series.

Wednesday, March 25. Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday, March 26. University of the Sciences Philadelphia, Spring Colloquium. 

Saturday, March 28. Stalking the Essay Conference, Columbia University.

Thursday, April 2. Yale Medical School, Program for Humanities in Medicine.

Tuesday, April 7. Macalester College. St. Paul, Minnesota. 7 pm.

Friday, April 10. AWP. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis Convention Center.

                           New Nonfiction with Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Eula Biss, Fiona McCrae. 4:30 pm. Auditorium Room 1, Level 1. 

Saturday, May 2. Marfa Book Company. Marfa, TX.

Wednesday, June 10. New School Summer Writers Colony.

Thursday, June 11. McNally Jackson. New York, NY. With Lucas Mann.

Monday, June 22. Launch for Ryan Spencer's Such Mean Estate. Powerhouse Books. Brooklyn, NY. 7pm.

Sunday, June 28-Friday July 10. DISQUIET International Literary Program. Lisbon, Portugal.

Monday, July 13. Shakespeare & Co. Paris, France. 7 pm. (NYU low-residency MFA).

Thursday, July 23. ALOUD Reading Series, Los Angeles Public Library. With Meghan Daum.

Tuesday, September 8. Northern Michigan University. Reading with Eula Biss.

Thursday, September 10. Kalamazoo College. Summer Common Reading Author.

Saturday, September 12. Slice Literary Conference. Conversation with Nicole Krauss.

Sunday, September 20. Brooklyn Book Festival. "The American Essay." With Phillip Lopate, Kent Russell, and Wendy Walters. 

                                         4:00 PM--Brooklyn Historical Society Library (128 Pierrepont St.)

Tuesday, September 22. Book Culture. New York NY. With Austin Bunn.

Friday, October 2. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY. Symposium on Doris Salcedo.

Saturday, October 3. Vocal Fry with Jenny Zhang, Margaret Ross, and Mitski. Shea Stadium, Bushwick NY.

October 9-10. The Power of Storytelling Conference. Bucharest, Romania.

October 22-23. Katherine Kearney Carpenter Lecturer, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Wednesday, October 28. Russell House Reading Series, Wesleyan University.

November 5-8. Sanibel Island Writers' Conference.

Wednesday, November 11. Housing Works Bookstore. New York NY. With Alex Mar, event for Witches of America.

Tuesday, November 17. Community Bookstore with Susana Moreira Marques.

Thursday, November 19.  Drake University Susan Glaspell Writers & Critics Reading Series. Des Moines, IA.

Friday, November 20. Hugo House Literary Series. Seattle, WA.  With Roger Reeves and Alexis Smith.

Monday, November 30. Berlin. With Elke Schmitter and Kirsten Riesselmann. Hanser Berlin, Friedrichstr. 210 / RG. 7:00 pm.

Tuesday, December 1. Leipzig. With Amanda DeMarco. Leipziger Literaturhaus/Haus des Buches, Gerichtsweg 28, 04103 Leipzig. 7:30. 

Wednesday, December 2. Freiburg. With Friederike Schulte and Doris Wolters. Freiburg im Breisgau, artjamming, Günterstalstr. 41,
79102 Freiburg im Breisgau.
 8:00 pm.        

Thursday, December 3. Zurich.  With Mikael Krogerus and Lara Körte. Literaturhaus Zürich. Literaturhaus, Limmatquai 62, 8022 Zürich. 

Saturday, December 5. New Day Campaign. "Mental Illness, Addiction, and Choice: An
Exploration." Theatre, Stevenson University. 1:00-5:30pm. With Lucas Mann.

Monday, December 7. Symphony Space. Interview with Mary-Louise Parker. New York, NY.

2014

Thursday, February 27: Getting Personal with A Public Space (w/ Roxane Gay, Amy Leach, et al)

                                        Hugo House, Seattle, WA. 8:00 PM.

Friday, February 28: Graywolf 40th Anniversary Reading, AWP Conference; Seattle, WA

Saturday, March 1

          Panel: Telling Other Peoples’ Stories, AWP.

          Panel: Creative Writer as Critic; AWP.

Thursday, March 6: Off Assignment Reading. Whisk & Ladle; Williamsburg, NY.

Wednesday, March 12: Brain Awareness Week Event. Housing Works; Manhattan, NY

Friday, March 28: Master’s Tea at Morse College, Yale University; New Haven, CT

           Reading at Morse College, Yale University; New Haven, CT (with Colleen Kinder)

Monday, March 31: Common Good Books; Minneapolis, MN

Tuesday, April 1: Prairie Lights; Iowa City, IA (Mission Creek festival, with Adam Fell)

Thursday, April 3: Bookbug; Kalamazoo, MI

Friday, April 4: Literati; Ann Arbor, MI (in conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan)

Sunday, April 6: Politics & Prose, Washington DC (with Kay Jamison)

Tuesday, April 8: BookCourt; Brooklyn, NY (with Fiona Maazel)

Thursday, April 10: City Lights; San Francisco, CA

Saturday April 12:  LA Times Festival of Books: Los Angeles, CA

Wednesday, April 16: McNally Jackson; Manhattan, NY (with Michelle Orange)

Thursday, April 17: Pete’s Candy Store; Williamsburg, NY (Pete's Reading Series, with Ted Thompson)

Tuesday, April 22: RiverRun; Portsmouth, NH

Wednesday, April 23: Brookline Booksmith; Brookline, MA (with Suzanne Koven)

Tuesday, April 29: Panel at Community Bookstore; Brooklyn, NY (with Jessica Hendry Nelson and Valeria Luiselli, moderated by Michele Filgate)

Thursday, May 8: Newtonville Books; Newton, MA. (With Adelle Waldman.)

Tuesday, May 13: Big Umbrella Reading Series, 2A Bar; Manhattan, NY

Thursday, May 15: "Should I Go to Graduate School?" discussion. Columbia University Barnes & Noble. 6 pm. 

Saturday, May 17: Hudson Valley Opera House, 5 pm. (With Lydia Davis and Nick Flynn).

Monday, May 19: Graywolf 40th Anniversary Reading; Housing Works Bookstore.

Wednesday, June 11: Flavorwire James Agee event. With Jen Percy. 

Wednesday, June 25: University of Tampa MFA reading. Tampa, FL.

Monday, July 7: Art of Medicine Series; St George's, University of London. Conversation with Deborah Bowman. London, UK.

Tuesday, July 8: LRB Bookstore. Conversation with Olivia Laing. London, UK.

Tuesday, July 15: NYU in Paris Center, 57 Boulevard Saint Germain, 75005. Paris.

Tuesday, August 5: Shelf Life Reading Series. Brooklyn.

September 4-6: Norwegian-American Literary Festival. Oslo, Norway.

September 12-14: Kentucky Women Writers' Festival.

September 19-20: Burlington Literary Festival.

September 21: Brooklyn Book Festival.

October 3-5: Brattleboro Literary Festival.

Wednesday, October 8: University of Virginia Medical School.

Thursday, October 9: NYU Creative Writing Program Reading Series

Saturday, October 18: Vegas Valley Book Festival.

Monday, October 20: McNally Jackson. Panel discussion for The Believer's Read Harder. 

Thursday, October 23: Late Night Library. Portland, OR.

Saturday, October 25: Texas Book Festival. Austin, TX.

Sunday, October 26: Chicago Humanities Festival.

Sunday, November 9: West Hartford Public Library. With Gary Greenberg.

Saturday, November 15: Brooklyn Public Library with Charles D'Ambrosio.

Tuesday, November 18. National Arts Club, Gramercy Park. With Charles Bock and Sean Wilsey.

Wednesday, December 3. Narrative Medicine Rounds, Columbia University. With Will Boast.

Monday, December 8: Grand Rounds at Princeton House. Princeton, NJ.

 

2013

Writers' Series at Sweet Briar College; Sweet Briar, VA

Bridge PAI; Charlottesville, VA

MFA Reading Series, Boise State College; Boise, ID

Emerging Writers Series, Black Mountain Institute; Las Vegas, NV and Reno, NV

 

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