Appearances
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 12:00 pm. I’ll be interviewing therapist Joshua Fletcher, author of the new book “And How Does It Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy,” on Zoom, for the Mark Twain House.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023. I’ll be talking to Pamela Newton’s English 120: “Reading and Writing the Modern Essay” class at Yale. Private event.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023. 7:00 pm. I’ll be interviewing Amy Brady about her new book, “Ice,” which looks at how and why ice has become an American obsession. This is a Zoom being held by the Mark Twain House. Introductions by Omar Acevedo.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023. I’ll be interviewing Chuck Thompson about his new book “The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow”, on a Zoom being organized by the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Ct. 7:00-8:00 pm.
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Weds, May 12, 2021. Noon, P.S.T. I’ll be part of a program that the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library in Oregon is doing on my book “And Then We Danced,” headed up by dancer and dance instructor Mishele Mennett. (Article in Corvallis Gazette-Times.) Register here.
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Friday, April 23, 2021. Sandra Tsing Loh has adapted my recent New Yorker humor piece, “Insomnia: The Opera,” for a reading, and inveigled a crew of luminaries: John Michael Higgins (the Christopher Guest and the Pitch Perfect movies), John Fleck (one of the NEA Four), Jim Turner (MTV’s Randee of the Redwoods), and, yes, Marilu Henner, among others. It will air first on “Bookish,” the Southern California News Group’s web series that Sandra hosts, on an episode also featuring “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” host Peter Sagal, Marlo Thomas, and memoirist Erica Schickel. (It’s on YouTube.)
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Friday, December 4, 2020. 5:00 PM P.S.T. I’ll be part of a Zoom panel alongside novelists Bruce Wagner and Darin Strauss and moderated by Sandra Tsing Loh, that is part of the Southern California News Group’s “Lit Up” literary series. (Registration here.) (Article in Orange County Register. ) (Listing in LA Daily News)
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Thurs, Jun 18, 2020 (and in perpetuity). I interviewed the great Sandra Tsing Loh about her hilarious new memoir, “The Madwoman and the Roomba,” for the Los Angeles literary series Writers Bloc. It’s on YouTube here.
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Tues, October 8, 2019. 7:00 pm. I’ll be telling a story at a taping of Mark Pagán’s podcast “Other Men Need Help,” at Caveat, alongside fellow storytellers Elna Baker , Gastor Almonte, and Bim Adewunmi, among others. Details here.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019. 7:30 pm. I’ll be telling a story at “Campfire Stories,” a storytelling fundraiser at the Park Slope Jewish Center. Information here.
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Monday, November 5, 2018. 7:45 pm. I’ll be reading at the Miss Manhattan Non-Fiction Reading Series, held at Niagara Bar in the East Village, 112 Avenue A at 7th St. Free.
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Thursday, October 11, 2018. 6:00 pm. I’ll be talking or reading as part of the comedy and storytelling event Uptown at Night, held at the beautiful New York Society Library. Other readers will include Meghan Daum and Karen Chee. There are snacks and whatnot to be consumed; might be best to check out the website for the complete lowdown.
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Friday, August 3, 2018. 6:00-8:00 pm. I’ll be signing books at the annual Sharon Summer Book Signing, a fundraiser for the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon, Ct. Other authors include Barry Blitt, Simon Winchester, Vanessa Friedman, Nadine Strossen, Dar Williams, David Margolick and Michael Korda. (Articles from the Torrington Register Citizen and the Lakeville Journal about the event.)
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Sunday, July 1. 4:00-6:00 pm. I’ll be dancing (with tens? hundreds? of other local dancers) in artist Nick Cave’s installation The Let Go, at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY, NY. Tickets required; $17.
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Tues, Nov 14, 2017. I’ll be on a panel with Vanity Fair editor Aimee Bell, and authors Judith Newman and Bruce Handy, to discuss the writing life, for Sloan Kettering hospital’s writing program, Visible Ink. 11:00 am-12:00 pm, at the Mortimer Zuckerman Auditorium in NYC (registration required).
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Weds, Sept 20, 2017. I’ll be telling or reading a story at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, at 7:00 pm as part of Mark Pagan’s “Other Men Need Help” podcast/series launch. Aparna Nancherla, Isaac Oliver (and others) will also join.
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Monday, May 25, 2015. I’ll be delivering the commencement address at my alma mater, Simon’s Rock, in Great Barrington, Ma. Details to follow.
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Saturday, February 7, 2015. I’ll be reading as part of an all-Alford program at Key City Public Theater, in Port Townsend, Washington. Details to follow.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. I’ll be reading with Anthony Haden-Guest, Tanya Selvaratnam, and Susan Kirschbaum in the basement of Acme restaurant. Invitation here.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014. I’ll be reading at Andy Ross’s reading series, Real Characters, alongside Tim Carvell, Erin Barker, and Dale Radio, at McNally Jackson bookstore in Soho at 8 pm. Free.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014. I’ll be interviewing Sandra Tsing Loh about her new book, “Madwoman in the Volvo” at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble at 7 pm
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Monday, March 10, 2014. Performing in Second Stage Theater’s anniversary benefit, a celebration of Annabelle Gurwitch’s new book, “I Can See You Made An Effort”, as the token male alongside luminaries Amy Brenneman, Gina Gershon, Tonya Pinkins, Annabella Sciorra, Alice Ripley. Jessica Hecht, Judy Gold, Saundra Santiago. 7 pm. Tickets: (212) 246-4422.
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Monday, November 12. Telling a story at the charity benefit for Hurricane Sandy victims, at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY. 7:30. $20. Other storytellers include Jonathon Ames, Amy Sohn, Elna Baker.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012. A fireside chat with NPR’s Korva Coleman, on the topic of civility in public discourse, as part of Howard County, Md.’s Choose Civility campaign. HCLS Miller Branch, 9421 Frederick Road, Ellicott City, Md. 6:30 pm.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012. Interview of actress Lisa Kudrow, at the New Yorker Festival. 10:00 pm, School of Visual Arts Theater, 333 W. 23rd St. $35.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012. Gaithersburg Book Festival, Gaithersburg, Md. Other featured authors include Buzz Bissinger, Larry Doyle, Judah Friedlander, Baratunde Thurston, Jen Lancaster, Madeline Miller, Eric Weiner, Jim Lehrer, Gary Krist, and Adam Hochschild.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012. Regulator Bookstore, Durham, NC. Reading and signing “Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012. 7:00 pm. KGB reading series, 85 E. 4th St. (btwn Bowery and 2nd Ave.) New York, NY. Reading from “Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?” The author’s sole New York City appearance.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012. Private event in Pasadena, CA, with Sandra Tsing Loh, Caitlin Flanagan, and The Atlantic Monthly editor Ben Schwartz.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012. Book Soup bookstore, Los Angeles. 6:00 pm. Reading of “Would It Kill You…”
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Monday, January 23, 2012. City Art lectures, in San Francisco, with Ayelet Waldman. Discussion of “Would It Kill You..”. Open to City Arts subscribers.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010. 92nd St. Y Senior Center, New York, N.Y. Discussion of “How to Live.”
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Friday, November 13, 2009. New Jersey Institute of Technology. Newark, NJ, at 1:00 pm. Talking to “Speaking, Thinking, Writing” students.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009. John Jay College, 899 10th Ave. (at 58th), Room 203, at noon. Discussion of “How to Live” for the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged.
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Friday, Sep. 18, 2009. Trinity College, Hartford, Ct. Giving a speech at the inauguration of International House. 4:00 p.m.
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-Monday, April 13, 2009. New York Public Library. “How to Live Dada”, with Andrei Codrescu and Mark Twain. 7:00 p.m. (Tickets necessary; order here.)
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-Tuesday, March 31, 2009. KGB Bar, with Gary Indiana and Doug Anderson.
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-Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Nashville Public Library. With Sandra Tsing Loh. 5:30 pm.
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-Wednesday, February 18, 2009. The New School. With Amanda Hesser, to celebrate Amanda’s new anthology of essays from the New York Times Magazine column, “Eat, Memory,” which I’m in. Also reading: Alex Prud’homme and Blue Hill chef Dan Barber.
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-Tuesday, February 10, 2009. Presented by The Thurber House in Columbus, OH., at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave. 7:30 pm. Discussion and signing of “How to Live.”
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-Friday, January 30, 2009. 7:30. Kim Ricketts Book Events, interviewed by Warren Etheredge. Seattle, WA.
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-Thursday, January 29, 2009. 7:30 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company. 101 S. Main St. Seattle, WA. Discussion and signing of “How to Live.”
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-Tuesday, January 27, 2009. 7:00 pm. Los Angeles Public Library, “Aloud” series. With Sandra Tsing Loh and her father, Eugene Loh. 630 W. 5th St. The event is free but tickets are required.
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-Monday, January 26, 2009. Books, Inc. 7:30 pm. 2251 Chestnut St. San Francisco, Ca. Discussion and signing of “How to Live.”
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-Monday, January 19, 2009. Regulator Bookshop. 720 Ninth St. Durham, NC. Discussion and signing of “How to Live,” much of which takes place in Durham.
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-Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Books & Books. Miami, Fla. 8:00 pm. 265 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables. Discussion and signing of “How to Live.”
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-Thursday, January 8, 2009. 7:00 pm. Barnes and Noble. 2289 Broadway (at 82nd St.) New York, N.Y. Discussion and signing of “How to Live.”
