I'll be in conversation with Daniyal Mueenuddin on January 21 at 7pm at Exile in Bookville! He'll be promoting his new book This Is Where the Serpent Lives. 

Excited to chat about fashion in historical novels on March 19 at 6pm chatting with Melanie Benjamin, Rowan Beaird, Nancy Elisa Johnson at M.M.LaFleur Chicago Store! Get your tickets below... Hope to see you there! https://www.hastybooklist.com/hbl-store/fashioning-history

I'll be in conversation with Emma Copley Eisenberg at Haymarket House (Chicago) to celebrate the release of her book "Fat Swim" on May 5 at 7pm!  

I'll be in conversation with Caro Claire Burke to promote the release of her book YESTERYEAR. You can join us at Wentz Concert Hall at North Central College in Naperville on 5/18 at 7pm.

Join me June 12-19, 2026 at Lit Fest at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver! I'll be leading workshops along fiction writers Steve Almond, Melissa Broder, Danielle Evans, Mat Johnson, Megha Majumdar, and Brandon Taylor; nonfiction writers Emily Rapp Black, Heather Christle, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Andre Dubus III, Beth Nguyen, and Rachel Louise Snyder; poets Layli […]

If you're in Denver, join me along with Emily Rapp Black, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, and Beth Nguyen for a visiting authors reading at Lighthouse Writers Workshop on June 16 at 7pm. If you're not in Denver, register to join online here.

I'll be teaching "Absolute Fiction" Lighthouse Writers Workshop on June 19 at 1:30pm - 3:30pm (both livestreamed and in person). Here's description of the class: In an age of both metafiction and high fantasy, writers have grown shy of writing realistic experiences wildly different than their own. Why have we lost the confidence to utterly […]