This is a live lit event. I'll be reading along with Brooke Allen, Ricardo Gamboa, Elizabeth Gomez, Tyler Greene, Sarah Hollenbeck, Jill Howe, Sam Irby, Jeremy Owens, and Karen Shimmin... The doors open at 6:30 pm  and the oops-themed show begins at 7:30 pm. Come early and enjoy dinner at Act One.    

Here's the official AWP skinny: No Facts, Only Interpretations: An Examination of the Multiple Point of View Novel.  (Eric Sasson,  Anna North,  Julia Fierro,  Ellen Sussman,  Rebecca Makkai) Five novelists who have experimented with point of view will discuss their POV choices and how those choices informed the tone and shape of their books. Does having multiple […]

I'll be reading and chatting at the Wauconda Area Library along with Elizabeth Blackwell, author of While Beauty Slept. Books available for purchase and signing!

Tin House editor Rob Spillman will visit Chicago's legendary Book Cellar to discuss his new memoir, All Tomorrow's Parties -- and I'll be there to interrogate him in a friendly way. Please join us!

Evergreen Park Library is hosting local authors as part of National Library Week on Saturday, April 16. Mystery authors Lori Rader-Day and Susanna Calkins will speak at 1 pm; I will speak at 2. Books will be available for purchase and signing. 

Please contact the organizers for more details!

I'll be in discussion with Brigid Pasulka, author of The Sun and Other Stars, at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. The library is billing this as a great night out for book clubs!

For Independent Bookstore day, I'll be tending bar at The Book Cellar, serving up bloody Marys and mimosas. The bar is open from 11 to 1, but I'll likely get there a little after 12.

I'll be participating in the 3rd annual Author After Hours event at Zion Benton Public Library. The first hour will be a dinner for the library's Short Story Contest Winners, and the second hour will be a panel discussion with me and other authors (TBA). Please contact the library for information!

I'll be teaching at this writers' conference in Seaside, Florida, along with Andre Dubus III, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Seth Brady-Tucker, and Matt Bondurant. Fellowships and scholarships are available... See the website for more details.