Events

Moby Dick from Sea to Stage: Conversation/Performance at the NYPL, NYC

Date: February 26, 2025

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Celeste Bartos Forum, NYPL's Stephen Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd St.

In partnership with the Metropolitan Opera, in celebration of the premiere of Moby-Dick, the opera. I will join composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer for discussion of Melville's enduring masterpiece. Members of Moby-Dick’s cast will perform selected excerpts from the opera. Live and Livestream

Ohio University Spring Literary Festival, Athens OH

Date: March 19, 2025

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: TK!

Lecture, Q&A, book signing

A Celebration of Jane Austen, 92Y, NYC

Date: March 27, 2025

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave, between 91st and 92nd Sts.

Panel discussion with Kevin Kwan, Helen Fielding, Vivian Gornick, and Alexandra Schwartz In honor of the 250th Anniversary of Austen's birth

Celebrating Amity Gaige’s HEARTWOOD: McNally Seaport, NYC

Date: April 2, 2025

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton Street, NYC

Conversation with Amity Gaige about her spectacular new thriller, HEARTWOOD!!

Conversation with Katie Kitamura at Center For Fiction, Brooklyn

Date: April 8, 2025

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn NY

Interview with the remarkable Katie Kitamura about her new novel, AUDITION

THE GREAT GATSBY at 100; Symphony Space, NYC

Date: April 14, 2025

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, at 95th St.

Discussion of Fitzgerald's masterpiece with Min Jin Lee and Ernesto Quinonez!!