UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, 2/6/12, SALT LAKE CITY---7pm, reading at The King's English, 1511 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT.

Wednesday, 2/8/12, WASHINGTON, DC---7pm, reading at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC.

Thursday, 2/16/12, STATEN ISLAND---Bent Pages---CANCELLED.

Saturday, 2/18/12, GREATER ATLANTA---1:30pm, speaking at the Atlanta Writer's Club at Georgia Perimeter College, Building NC Auditorium, Dunwoody, GA.

Monday, 2/20/12, BROOKLYN ---7:30pm, reading/discussion at Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Wednesday, 2/22/11 BUFFALO---7pm, reading at Talking Leaves Books, 3158 Main Street, Buffalo, NY. Please note that this date has been changed from 2/23.

Thursday, 2/23/11, BUFFALO---12:15pm, reading in the Finding the Muse: Women Working in Art and Literature series, curated by Jennifer D. Ryan, Department of English, Buffalo State College. Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall, Buffalo, NY.



PAST EVENTS

1/31/12, a reading at Word Books, Brooklyn, NY.

1/26/12, MONTCLAIR, NJ---CANCELLED

1/25/12, a reading and celebration at Heather's Bar with Cris Beam, Sarah Schulman, and Laurie Weeks, sponsored by Lambda Literary Association and curated by Karen Schechner: Manhattan, NY.

1/22/12, a reading at the KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction Series, curated by Suzanne Dottino, Manhattan, NY.

1/18/12, a reading at Back Pages Books, Waltham, MA.

1/17/12, a reading at Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA.

1/14/12, a reading at Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA.

1/13/12, a reading at Books Inc. Castro. 2275 Market Street, San Francisco, CA.

1/12/12, a reading at Book Passage Corte Madera, Corte Madera, CA.

1/11/12, a reading at Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA.

1/10/12, a reading at the Decatur Library; event sponsored by Georgia Center for the book and Charis Books, Atlanta, GA.

1/9/12, a reading at Books & Books Coral Gables, Miami, FL.

1/5/12, Publication day reading for THE LAST NUDE at Barnes and Noble Tribeca, Manhattan.

10/28/11, reading with poet Rachel Simon at Girlsalon at the Branded Saloon in Brooklyn: event curated by Janine Avril.

10/13/11, Signing at the Author's Reception of the New England Independent Booksellers' Association (NEIBA) conference, Providence, RI.

9/23/11, A reading to celebrate the receipt of an Emerging Writers' Fellowship at The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD.

9/20/11, Signing at the Author's Reception of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Association (NAIBA) conference, Atlantic City, NJ



On Sunday, 4/17/11, I curated a memorial tribute to Penelope Fitzgerald, featuring novelist Jonathan Franzen and New Yorker critic Joan Acocella, at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street in Manhattan, NYC.

Readers included:

Joan Acocella, New Yorker critic, author of TWENTY-EIGHT ARTISTS AND TWO SAINTS
Ellis Avery, novelist, author of THE TEAHOUSE FIRE
Rena Fogel, fiction writer, one-time student of Fitzgerald's at Queens Gate School for Girls
Jonathan Franzen, novelist, author of FREEDOM
Kerry Fried, critic and journalist
James Marcus, journalist and translator, author of AMAZONIA
Marie Mockett, novelist and blogger, author of PICKING BONES FROM ASH
Cassandra Neyenesch, fiction writer and art critic

The New York Times called Fitzgerald "the mistress of the hint of the sublime." To say nothing of her excellent reviews and biographies, Fitzgerald's fiction is sly, strange, delicate, tender, and pitiless. It's also oddly-- and darkly-- funny. During the Second World War, the inspiring BBC director of HUMAN VOICES absent-mindedly gets into what he thinks is a taxi at the end of a day, and inadvertently detonates the bomb that kills him. The great passion of the Romantic poet Novalis's life is Sophie, a girl whom everyone else-- the reader included-- sees as a none-too-special twelve-year-old.

I was inspired to organize this event because Fitzgerald is one of the writers I most seek to emulate. As a writer of historical fiction, I probably do as much research as she did, but how does she manage to wear her learning so lightly? I still haven't pulled off the trick of distilling a six hundred page manuscript into one of her two-hundred page books.

I was grateful, too, for the opportunity to introduce Fitzgerald's work to new readers because, first, she is a largely unsung genius in the U.S., and because, second, as the late twentieth century canon solidifies, I'd like to do my part to ensure we hear some top-notch women writers among the sung. And because, third, as A.S. Byatt asks, "She is, isn't she, the best?"


4/3/10, at the Cavalier Literary Couture launch party at KGB Bar, NYC.

3/27/10, at the Rainbow Book Fair , NYC.

2/28/10, at KGB Bar, in support of SheWrites, NYC.

10/7/09, Writing Program Reading Series at Pitt, Pittsburgh, PA.

9/23/09, at the Bryn Mawr College Book Group, NYC.

2/10/09, at Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, NYC.

12/1/08, at Shakespeare and Company, Paris, FRANCE. A reading with Sharon Marcus.

11/28/08, at the American University of Paris.

6/30/08, at the American Library Association Conference in Anaheim, CA, accepting the Stonewall Fiction Award for 2008.

5/27/08, at The King's English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT.

5/6/08, at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MASS.

4/17/08, at the Perch Cafe, Brooklyn, NY, as part of the Girlsalon reading series.

4/3/08, at the Oxford Literary Festival, Oxford, ENGLAND.

4/2/08, at Gay's the Word, London, ENGLAND

3/30/08, at Waterstones Canterbury, Canterbury, ENGLAND

3/7/08, at Asia Society, Manhattan, NYC.

2/27/08, at Bar on A, Manhattan, NY, as part of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series,.

2/8/08, at Outwrite Books, Atlanta, GA. A reading with Sharon Marcus.

2/7/08, at Charis Books, Atlanta, GA.

1/20/08, at the Stain Bar, Brooklyn, NY, as part of the Sunday Salon reading series.

1/18/08, at Borders Crossroads Center, Bailey's Crossroads, VA.

1/17/08, at Borders Westwood, Los Angeles, CA.

1/17/08, at Tea Garden and Herbal Emporium, West Hollywood, CA.

1/16/08, at Duboce Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA. Event by Betty's List Book Club.

1/15/08, at Barnes and Noble San Mateo, San Mateo, CA.

1/10/08, at Michelle Tea's RADAR reading series, San Francisco Public Library, SF, CA.

1/7/08, at Ravenna Third Place Books, Seattle, WA

12/19/07, at Oscar Wilde Bookshop, Manhattan.

12/11/07, at Bluestockings Bookstore, in Manhattan.

12/3/07, at Morningside Bookshop, Manhattan.

11/14/07, at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.

11/10/07, at the Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL.

10/26/07, at Columbus School for Girls, Columbus, OH.

8/16/07, at Girlsalon, Brooklyn, NY.

5/26/07, at Green E Books, Kyoto, Japan.

4/29/07, at the Coffee and Tea Festival, NYC.

4/22/07, at the Rockaway Writers' Conference, Rockaway, NY.

4/20/07, at Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck, NY.

4/19/07, at Girlsalon, Brooklyn, NY.

4/17/07, at The Center, at an event honoring finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards, New York, NY

4/14/07, at an event cosponsored by the Friends of the Palisades Library, and the Bryn Mawr Club of Washington, DC.

3/31/07, at Liberty Books, Columbus, OH.

3/29/07, at the Book Cellar, Chicago, IL.

3/15/07, with Emily Barton, at Three Lives Books, New York, NY.

3/14/07, at Happy Endings reading series, New York, NY.

3/13/07, at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

3/8/07, at the Log Cabin Literary Center, Boise, ID.

3/1/07, at Big Blue Marble Bookstore,Philadelphia, PA.

2/22/07, with Sharon Marcus, at the Columbia University Bookstore, New York, NY.

2/16/07, at Outwrite Books, Atlanta, GA. Due to weather and family illness, I was not able to attend this joint event with Sharon Marcus, but Sharon read in my stead.

2/15/07, at Girlsalon, Brooklyn, NY.

2/10/07, at tru-teas, Buffalo, NY.

2/9/07, at the Rooftop Poetry Club, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.

2/4/07, at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

2/3/07, at Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA.

2/2/07, at Bookshop West Portal, San Francisco, CA.

2/1/07, at Books Incorporated, San Francisco, CA.

1/31/07, at Powell's Books, Portland, OR.

1/29/07, at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA.

1/24/07, at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.

1/21/07, at the Sunday Night Fiction Series, KGB Bar, NYC.

1/17/07, at Rebecca Alvarez's Cup and Pen series, Think Coffee, NYC

1/9/07, at Barnes&Noble, Astor Place, NYC (followed by a party at Solas Lounge nearby.)

1/3/07, at McNally Robinson Books, NYC.

12/28/06, at Books&Books, Coral Gables, Miami, FL.

12/2/06, at the Small Press Book Festival, NYC

11/16/06, at a celebration/wake for Wild Lily Tea Room, NYC

11/8/06, w/Jami Attenberg's Class of 2007 reading, Boxcar Lounge, NYC

10/29/06, a reading from IN PIECES at the Westbeth, NYC.


If you'd like me to come read at your local bookstore, please tell them to get in touch with me!