2019
October 15 – December 15, 2019: Resident at 100 West Corsicana, Corsicana, TX
September 11, 2019: talk with with Bathsheba Demuth about her book The Floating Coast: an environmental history of the Bering Strait (Norton), 7 PM, Twenty Stories, 107 Ives Street, Providence, RI
AWP: March 28, 2019: reading at West Coast Grocery, 6:30 pm with Aminatta Forna, John Freeman, Matt Sumell, Portland, OR
2018
November 4, 2018: reading for Downtown for Democracy, Readings in Protest. Deitch Project, NY, NY
September 11, 2018: talk with Jess Bruder about her book, Nomadland, 7:30 PM, Greenlight Bookstore at Prospect Lefferts Gardens, 632 Flatbush Avenue (at Fenimore), Brooklyn, NY
May 14, 2018: talk with John Freeman and Richard Russo, Print Bookstore, Portland, ME
May 3, 2018: talk with Norwegian author, Hanne Ørstavik about her novel, Love (Archipelago Books), translated by Martin Aitken, Community Bookstore, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
April 21, 2018: PEN Literary Crawl, “A Little Box of Yes.” Join me, other writers (TBD), and Brian Mooney of Storymatic for a bit of improvisational storytelling, NY, NY
April 9, 2018: talk with author Tyler Wetherall about her book, No Way Home, 7:30 pm. at Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY
March 17, 2018: nonfiction seminar at The Graduate Institute, Bethany CT
March 14 & 15, 2018: National Book Critics Circle finalist readings and awards, NY, NY
March 7-11, 2018: National Book Critics Circle table and in the pool at AWP 2018 Bookfair and Conference, Tampa, FL.
February 5-15, 2018: writer residency at Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Norway
2017
October 25, 2017: book excerpt from Freeman’s will be discussed at The Office of Equity and Diversity (OED) 12-1pm, Office of Justice & Equity, Bates College, Lewiston, ME — More information HERE.
October 15, 2017: talk with with John Freeman and Emily Raboteau at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro, VT
October 3, 2017: talk with authors Jonathan Dee and Scott Spencer about the grim reality of the American Dream explored in their latest novels. 7pm, at The Center for Fiction, NY, NY
June 9, 2017: talk with Rabih Alamedddine, John Freeman, Aminatta Forna, 6 PM at Litteraturhuset, Wergelandsveien 29, 0167, Oslo, Norway
June 7, 2017: talk with Rabih Alamedddine and John Freeman. “Home at the Crossroads: Imagining the City by artistic and academic means,” 1:15pm in Room B2, Niagara, Malmö University. In collaboration between Freeman’s Journal and the Conviviality at the Crossroads network at Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
June 6, 2017: talk with Rabih Alamedddine and John Freeman, 7pm at Litteraturhuset ved Vandkunsten, Nybrogade 28, 1203 Copenhagen, Denmark
June 5, 2017: talk with Rabih Alamedddine and John Freeman, Bokförlaget Polaris, Villa Ludvigsberg, Ludvigsbergsgatan 20, Stockholm, Sweden
May 9, 2017: at Jim Aylward’s Mountain Valley High School AP English Class!
May 2, 2017: talk with Barry Lopez, Emily Robateau, Lawrence Joseph, and John Freeman, 7 PM, at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY, 7pm (Prospect Lefferts Gardens Location)
April 27, 2017: visiting lecturer with Tatiana Serafin, “Deep dive research,” Advanced Journalism, Marymount Manhattan College
April 22, 2017: talk with Xiaolu Guo, Nadifa Mohamed, Adania Shibli, and John Freeman at Silent Green Kulturquartier, 7 PM, Berlin, Germany
April 17, 2017: talk with Lawrence Joseph, Greg Pardlo, John Freeman at McNally Jackson Bookstore in Manhattan, 7pm
March 15-16, 2017: National Book Critics Circle Reading and Awards Ceremony, 6:30 pm at The New School 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY
Feb 9-11, 2017: AWP writers’ conference at the National Book Critics Circle table (#313), Washington, DC