New York, NY
NYU
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street
Event is free & open to the public; registration required
Full info & RSVP here
Brooklyn, NY & Online
Books Are Magic
In conversation w/ Jamel Brinkley about WITNESS
In-store & online
Full info & registration here
Saratoga Springs, NY
New York State Summer Writers’ Institute
Skidmore College
w/ Carl Dennis
Full info here
New York, NY
PEN World Voices
The Second Novel
w/ Marlon James, Khaled Hosseini, Elif Batuman, and Alexander Chee
Joe’s Pub
Full info & Tickets here
New Haven, CT
Yale University
Yale Review Spring Festival
Reading w/ Maggie Millner
Full info here
New Haven, CT
Yale University
Yale Review Spring Festival
Roundtable: Reading in an Age of Crisis
w/ Kathryn Lofton & Emily Bernard, moderated by Meghan O’Rourke
Full info here
Brooklyn, NY
McNally Jackson Williamsburg
In conversation w/ Alice Winn about In Memoriam
Brooklyn, NY
Greenlight Bookstore
In conversation w/ Idra Novey about Take What You Need
Full info here
Fairfield, CT
Fairfield University
In conversation w/ Phil Klay
Tickets required; full info here
Brooklyn, NY
Center for Fiction
In conversation w/ De’Shawn Charles Winslow about Decent People
Full info here
New York, NY
Albertine Books
On Hervé Guibert
w/ Jeffrey Zuckerman and Richie Hofmann
Free; registration required
Full info here
Brooklyn, NY
Books Are Magic
w/ Adam Dalva, Raven Leilani, Sanaë Lemoine, & Brandon Taylor
Full info here
Online
Books & Books Crowdcast
In conversation w/ Édouard Louis about A Woman’s Battles & Transformations
Full info here
Saratoga Springs, NY
Advanced Fiction Workshop
New York State Summer Writers’ Institute
More information here
New York, NY
NYPL Live
Writing & Living Through AIDS
w/ Bill Goldstein, Robert Jones Jr, Torrey Peters, & Pamela Sneed
Full info here
New York, NY
The Strand
In conversation w/ Brandon Taylor about Filthy Animals
Full info here
Online Class: What Is Style, Session 2
What is Style?
Full info & registration here
Session 2: Condensing Life to a Voice
What makes a style successful is the sense it gives of an entire life—an entire world—condensed to a voice. In this second session we’ll take a more holistic approach to thinking about style and how it is crucial to the impression great writing gives of an inhabited world. We’ll also tackle the difficult question of how to deepen and expand our own styles, and I’ll share practices that have been helpful in my own (very much ongoing) work toward this. We’ll read passages from James Baldwin, Marilynne Robinson, Pedro Lemebel, and Eimear McBride, among others, and I’ll offer reflective prompts that we’ll consider together in class, as well as creative exercises for you to experiment with on your own.
Online Class: What Is Style, Session 1
What Is Style?
Full info & registration here
Session 1: Sentence Style
“Style” is something writers talk about a great deal, but often without a clear sense of what we’re talking about. In this first session, we’ll try to break through the vagueness of our usual ways of talking about prose style to examine the concrete, observable elements that make it up. How can we meaningfully describe a writer’s diction? What are some useful concepts for seeing patterns in sentence structure and understanding their effects? How do great writers use figurative language to render both internal and external worlds? We’ll look at passages from Hemingway, James, and Jenny Zhang, among others. My hope is that at the end of the session you’ll feel equipped with tools that will help you learn from the style of the writers you love, and also be more conscious of and intentional about the elements that make up your own style.
Iowa City, IA & Zoom
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Dey House, Frank Conroy Reading Room
More info & Zoom link here
Zoom
Community Bookstore (Online)
In conversation w/ Daniel Mendelsohn about Three Rings
Info & Registration here
Online
Fiction Master Class for LGBTQ+ Writers
Five weeks, Sundays 1-3:30 ET. Application-only. All participants receive full scholarships. Applications open February 7.
Hosted by The Shipman Agency. More info here.
St. Louis, MO
What Belongs to You (Opera)
Washington University in St. Louis
A workshop concert performance of Grammy Award-nominated composer David T. Little’s operatic adaptation of What Belongs to You, performed by Alarm Will Sound and Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman. More info here.
St Louis, MO & Zoom
Washington University in St. Louis
In-person for MFA program
Zoom registration here