Key West friends: please join Cheryl Tan and me Wednesday, March 9 at The Studios of Key West for an evening of Anonymous Sex, moderated by Nan Klingener, with dramatic readings by the fabulous Elena Devers and Stephen Kitsakos.

What could be more fitting for Valentine’s Day than a conversation about ANONYMOUS SEX? Please join me, my co-editor Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, and two of our contributors—#1 New York Times bestselling children’s author Jason Reynolds and critically acclaimed journalist and author Meredith Talusan—for a lively & frank virtual discussion of our groundbreaking erotic anthology featuring winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, Britain’s Carnegie Medal (in Jason’s case), and more. Register for the event on the Politics and Prose website, and while you’re at it, pre-order a book or two. 27 AUTHORS. 27 STORIES. NO NAMES ATTACHED.

**PLEASE NOTE: EVENT TIMES ARE E.S.T.

New Yawkers & lit lovers everywhere: the awesome team at the Center for Fiction are hosting me and my co-editor Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan for a conversation about ANONYMOUS SEX, our groundbreaking erotic anthology featuring winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN Awards, and more. Four of our distinguished contributors, Tony Eprile, Julia Glass, S.J. Rozan, and Jeet Thayil, will join us for some frank talk about sex & literature. You can register for the event here and pre-order the book here. There’ll be a Q&A at the end, so come with questions! 27 AUTHORS. 27 STORIES. NO NAMES ATTACHED.

**PLEASE NOTE: EVENT TIMES ARE E.S.T.

I’m excited to return to Anderson’s (though sadly, not in person), where I did terrific events for both MUDBOUND and WHEN SHE WOKE. This time, they’ll be hosting me and my co-editor Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan for a virtual chat about ANONYMOUS SEX, our groundbreaking erotic anthology featuring winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN Awards, and more. Three of our brilliant contributors—Chicago-based fiction writer Rebecca Makkai, Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma, and novelist/poet Victoria Redel—will join us for a frank hourlong discussion of sex, writing, and the joys of anonymity. Register and pre-order a copy of the book, signed by Cheryl & me, here. 27 AUTHORS. 27 STORIES. NO NAMES ATTACHED.

**PLEASE NOTE, EVENT TIMES ARE C.S.T.

I’ve been a huge fan of Book People since my Austin days, so I’m thrilled to be doing a virtual event with them for ANONYMOUS SEX, the groundbreaking erotic anthology I co-edited with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan. Our distinguished contributors include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN Awards, and more. And three of them—Catherine Chung, Téa Obreht and Mary-Louise Parker—will join us to dish about the experience of writing erotica anonymously and to answer questions from participants. Register and pre-order the book here. 27 AUTHORS. 27 STORIES. NO NAMES ATTACHED.

**PLEASE NOTE, EVENT TIMES ARE C.S.T.

It’s publication day for ANONYMOUS SEX, our groundbreaking erotic anthology featuring winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more, and we’re celebrating (virtually) at The Ripped Bodice bookstore. Please join me, co-editor Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, and three of our fantastic contributors—PEN/Bellwether Prize winner Heidi Durrow, international bestselling author Jamie Ford, and Orange/Women’s Prize winner Valerie Martin—for a virtual convo about sex in literature and the fun of creating it anonymously. Register for the event here, and while you’re at it, pre-order a copy or two of the book! 27 AUTHORS. 27 STORIES. NO NAMES ATTACHED.

**PLEASE NOTE: EVENT TIMES ARE P.S.T.

Please join me and author Katherine Seligman, winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, for some virtual lit talk about her acclaimed debut novel, AT THE EDGE OF THE HAIGHT, a gripping tale about a young homeless woman who witnesses a murder in San Francisco. Barbara Kingsolver says of the novel. “What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy.” The event is hosted by the venerable indie bookseller Vroman’s. Times are PST. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/10cqtgvm

Author talk about Mudbound, Q&A and book signing.

Author talk, Q&A and book signing.

Hosted by McSweeney’s and Housing Works Bookstore & Café, this event will feature contributors to the series reading extracts from their essays. With Samuel Freedman, Tanya Selvaratnam, Tracy O’Neill, Shane McCrae, Chen Chen, Rob Spillman & Hillary Jordan.

Since the 2016 election, reading the news each day can send even the most placid among us into a paralyzing apoplexia. We are enraged, we are bewildered, and then we get nothing done all day. We go to bed with teeth clenched, wake up, and it begins again. But McSweeney's has a solution. All year they have been featuring essays by powerful voices—from poets and novelists to actors and activists—giving voice to their state of mind—and possibly yours, too.

These writers also offer one simple thing you can do that day to take action, to address those concerns, to feel a little less powerless. Maybe it’ll be an organization or charity they find worthy of your donation, a volunteer opportunity worth your time, or an issue that deserves greater awareness. Whatever it is, we hope it will help remind all of us of the big and small things we can do to work toward justice and change.​

Join me and a talented group of artists, all published in the online resistance journal Scoundrel Time, for an evening of words, art, & music at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, New York's only all-poetry bookstore.

Readers will include Karen Bender, Carolyn Ferrell, Dionne Ford, Daisy Fried, Mary Gaitskill, Paul Lisicky, Matthew Olzmann, Alissa Quart, Dana Sachs, Jennifer Sears, Robert Anthony Siegel, Joan Silber, Peter Trachtenberg & yours truly. Plus there'll be music by Bill McGarvey and visual art by Carolyn Alessio, Erica Baum, Kathryn Freeman, Wendy Richmond, Dee Shapiro, & Preston Trombly. Event details here.

Author talk, Q&A, and book signing, sponsored by Westerville Public Library.

Author talk, Q&A, and book signing

Author Talk, Q&A, and book signing. (Time subject to change)

A conversation among artists, students, and faculty about the role of art in social responsibility. Specifically, what does it mean to be a “revolutionary,” an artist who addresses and provokes conversations about political and social issues? Sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs. Food and libations will be served.

Please join me and Laura Brown at WORD Brooklyn for an evening of lit chat about her funny, poignant, and wise new novel, MADE BY MARY. Antonya Nelson calls it "a jaunty read about the way we live now. The way we get born, and reborn, and surrogately born. The way we make fun of our foibles and fads without losing sight of what is eternal and earnest: the desire to sustain the species, to love our family no matter how it came to be, no matter how it spirals into the infuriatingly silly or the inimitably sublime."

Author talk, Q&A, and signing.

Keynote lecture, Q&A, and book signing.