SELECTED APPEARANCES

 

  • Edinburgh Book Festival

  • BBC Talking Books

  • “Bragging Rights!” presented at SF Unified School District Training

  • Ypsilon Theatre Prague

  • American Academy in Rome

  • Decatur Book Festival

  • Prairie Lights

  • New Orleans Room 220

  • Cutting Edge Music Festival

  • WWNO (NPR affiliate)

  • Tom Dent Literary Festival

  • Louisiana Book Festival

  • Faulkner Society Words and Music Festival

  • “Literature and Lunch” with Ernest J. Gaines (key interviewer)

  • Decatur Book Festival

  • Booksmith S.F

  • September Diesel Books

  • Octavia Books

  • Rising Tide Bloggers Conference

  • Prairie Lights Bookstore

  • Maple Street Bookstore (uptown)

  • Pantheon

  • Maple Street Bookstore (mid-city)

  • WRBH

  • WMUK (NPR affiliate)

  • Portage Library in conjunction with the Racial Healing Initiative

  • New Orleans Public Library

  • KMSU Weekly Reader Interview

  • Stalking the Golem: The Prague Summer Program’s 20th Anniversary, AWP

  • Yoga and the Life of the Writer, AWP

  • “Slavery with a Capital H: Hegelianism and Subversion in Charles Johnson’s The Middle Passage” American Studies Association

  • Franklin Park reading series.

  • Story Week, Wildly Imaginative Voices and Visions panel

  • BACC

  • Dick Gordon’s The Story (NPR syndicated show)

  • PEN/Faulkner Ceremony

  • M-Live Book Club

  • Louisiana Book Festival

  • Faulkner Society Pirates Alley Festival

  • SIBA

  • Lyrics and Dirge

  • NCIBA

  • Waterford, MI

  • Winter Institute

  • City Lights Bookstore

  • Books Inc. Berkeley

  • Kepler’s Books

  • Octavia Books

  • Square Books

  • Georgia Center for the Book

  • Prairie Lights

  • Soho House

  • Tavis Smiley

  • Vorres Gallery

  • LA Book Festival

  • Bookcourt, Brooklyn

  • Stories on Stage, Sacramento

  • WMUK Between the Lines

  • Elliot Bay Bookstore

  • Powell’s Books

  • Bookpeople

  • Busboys and Poets

  • Brooklyn Book Festival

  • Franklin Park

  • PEN/Faulkner Gala

  • LitQuake SF

  • WRBH

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Elgin Community College

  • Spring Creek Residency

  • Louisiana Book Festival

  • OSU Corvallis

  • Bend, OR. Library, November 8, 2015

  • Rancho Mirage Writer’s Festival, January 24, 2016

  • Tattered Cover Denver, January 29, 2016

  • Berkeley Public Library Annual Gala, January 6, 2016

  • Rising Nights Conference, ASU, February 18-10, 2016

  • Book Passage Book Club, Corte Madeira, February 29, 2016

  • Stanford, April 26, 2016

  • Townsend Prize Keynote Speech

  • Kepler’s Books w/ Walter Mosley

  • Tin House Workshops

  • Yale-NUS Singapore

  • American Book Review Reading Series

  • College of Charleston, Crazy Horse Reading Series

  • U.C. Berkeley English Department Commencement Speech

  • Bay Area Book Festival