Events & Appearances
Upcoming Events
Thursday, September 5, 2024: Private Event
Temple Beth-El, Hillsborough, NJ
Conversation with Ami Sands Brodoff, author of The Sleep of Apples
Tuesday, October 8, 2024: 7:00 pm
Book Culture @ 112th Street
Conversation with Roxana Robinson, author of Leaving
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October 26-27, 2024
Southern Festival of Books
Nashville, Tennessee
Past Events
Tuesday, June 4, 2024: 8:00 pm
Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine
Conversation with Ruth Graver, M.D. and Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika
Tuesday, January 16, 2024: 7:00 pm
McNally Jackson Books Soho, Manhattan, NY
Conversation with Vivian Gornick
Tuesday, December 5, 2023: 4:00pm EST
Book Passage, Virtual Event
Conversation with Alice McDermott, author of Absolution
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Thursday, November 30, 2023: 7:00pm
Belmont Books, Belmont Center, MA
Conversation with Virginia Pye, author of The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023: 4:00pm EST
Authors Love Bookstores/A Mighty Blaze
Conversation with Cody Madsen, VP Book Culture
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Saturday, November 18, 2023: 5:00pm
Politics and Prose, Washington, DC
Conversation with Susan Coll, author of Bookish People
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Friday, November 17, 2023: 6:00pm
The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, MD
Conversation with Marion Winik, author of The Big Book of the Dead
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Thursday, November 16, 2023: 7:00pm
Narberth Bookshop, Narberth PA
Conversation with Elise Juska, author of If We Had Known
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Thursday, November 9, 2023: 7:00pm
Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, NJ
Conversation with Alice Dark, author of Fellowship Point
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023: 7:00pm
The Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY
Ana Turns Launch Event with Joan Silber, author of Secrets of Happiness
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Monday, October 3, 2022: 8:00pm
Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine
Conversation with Philip Lister, M.D., author of A Short Good Life
Wednesday, July 20, 2022: 3:00pm
Private Book Club, Lee, Massachusetts
Discussion of A Peacock Feast
May 2022
Alumni Faculty Forum, Princeton University
Princeton Authors/Storytellers: Storytelling via Different Mediums
Time/Date: TBA
Wednesday, December 7, 2021: 8:00pm
Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine
Conversation with Kate Edgar, Exec. Director Oliver Sacks Foundation
Sunday, August 25: 7:00pm EST
Sessions for Writers, Kauai Writers Conference
Conversation with Helen Simonson
Thursday, April 15, 2021: 7:00 pm
Central Synagogue Book Club
Discussion of Tinderbox
Conversation with Emily Penn
Tuesday, February 2, 2021: 7:00pm
Princeton Women’s Network of NYC
“What Makes a Good Story?”
Conversation with Emily Penn
Sunday, January 24, 2021: 7:00pm EST
Kauai Writers Conference Book Club
Discussion of The Exiles with Christina Baker Kline
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Sunday, August 23, 2020: 4:00pm
Virtual discussion of The Peacock Feast
Princeton University Class of ’77
Wednesday, July 8, 2020: 7:00pm
Virtual Conversation with Angie Kim
Belmont Books
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Thursday, March 19, 2020: 6:30pm
In Conversation with Jennifer Puryear
Parnassus Books
3900 Hillsboro Pike #14
Nashville, TN 37215
CANCELLED D/T COVID
Wednesday, March 18, 2020: 7:15pm
In Conversation with Susan Rebecca White
Charis Books/ Georgia Center for the Book
Decatur Library Auditorium
Decatur Library
215 Sycamore Street
Decatur, Georgia
CANCELLED D/T COVID
Sunday, March 15, 2020: 3pm
In Conversation with Krista Bremer
Flyleaf Books
752 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
CANCELLED D/T COVID
Wednesday, March 11, 2020: 6:30pm
Kramerbooks
In Conversation with Angie Kim
1517 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
CANCELLED D/T COVID
Tuesday, March 10, 2020: 7pm
The Ivy Bookshop
In Conversation with Marion Winik
Baltimore, Maryland
6080 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21209
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Saturday, October 26
Easton Book Festival
Easton, Pennsylvania
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Wednesday, October 2
Works in Progress Seminar: The Interplay of Fact and Fiction in Narrative
In Conversation with Sheila Kohler
New York Psychoanalytic Institute
247 East 82nd Street
New York, NY 10028
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Thursday, August 22, 2019: 4-5pm
The Mount: Edith Wharton’s Home
In Conversation with Heidi Pitlor
2 Plunkett Street
Lenox, Massachusetts 01240
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Monday, July 15, 2019: 8pm
Scribblers on the Roof
Ansche Chesed Roof
251 West 100th Street
New York City
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019: 12:30pm
Bryant Park Reading Room
Bryant Park
New York City
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Saturday, March 23, 2019: 11:05am
Montclair Literary Festival
Panel with David Ebershoff & Wayetu Moore
Montclair, NJ
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Monday, March 11, 2019: 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd Street
Historical Fiction Unbound:
Lisa Gornick with Christina Baker Kline
New York City
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019: 7pm
Point Street Reading Series
Askew
150 Chestnut Street
Providence, RI
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Sunday, February 10, 2019: 3pm
Politics & Prose
In Conversation with Whitney Scharer and Bethanne Patrick
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, D.C.
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Thursday, February 7, 2019: 7pm
Book Launch, The Peacock Feast: In Conversation with Joan Silber
Barnes & Noble Upper West Side
Broadway & 82nd Street, New York City
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January 31, 2019
Guest Faculty
New Directions Program of The Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
Washington, DC
December 2, 2018
Book Club, Louisa Meets Bear
Private Event
San Diego, California
December 5, 2018
Author Talk Mid-Manhattan Library
In conversation with Joseph Burgo on Shame: Free Yourself, Find Joy, and Build True Self-Esteem
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Program Room
New York City
November 13, 2018
Book Club, Louisa Meets Bear
Private Event
New York City
October 6, 2018: 4:15-5:30pm
Alumnae Author Book Fair
Princeton University
Chancellor Green
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April 10, 2018
The Therapist Talks: Analyzing Sexual Harassment
Center for Psychoanalytic Training & Research
Columbia University
June 2-3, 2017
Princeton Reunions
The Creative Process–The Writer’s Craft
Princeton, NJ
April 8, 2017
Symposium 2017: Women Now
Panel on Women Writers
New York, NY
February 3-5, 2017
Guest Faculty
New Directions Program of The Washington Cener for Psychoanalysis
Washington, DC
February 7, 2016
Guest Lecturer
Mary Kay Zuravleff’s Writing Classes: Drafting Your Novel and Transforming Your Novel
Washington, DC
January 23, 2016
Writing for the Lay Public: How Professionals Can Mater Online and Op-Ed Writing
New York Academy of Medicine
New York, NY
December 9, 2015: 1pm
Quest, CCNY
Illustrated Lecture on the Historical Roots to Tinderbox
New York, New York
November 14, 2015: 2pm
With Laurie Lico Albanese
Benefit for Nutley Public Library
Barnes & Noble, Clifton Commons
385 Route 3 East
Clifton, New Jersey
Thursday, October 29, 2015: 7pm
Author Visit West Orange Public Library
46 Mount Pleasant Avenue
West Orange, NJ 07052
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Thursday, October 15, 2015: 7pm
Author Visit Worth-Pinkham Memorial Library
91 Warren Avenue
Ho-Ho Kus, NJ
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015: 6pm
How and Why to Write for the Public
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY
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Friday, July 10, 2015: 7pm
With Rebecca Makkai
Politics & Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, D.C.
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Thursday, July 9, 2015: 7pm
With Marion Winik
The Ivy Bookshop
6080 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015: 7:30pm
Princeton Women’s Network Book Club
Private Event
Thursday, June 18, 2015: 7pm
Watchung Booksellers
54 Fairfield Street, Watchung Plaza, Montclair NJ
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June 14, 2015: 1-5pm
Books NJ 2015
Grounds of Paramus Public Library
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June 10, 2015: 7pm
With Christina Baker Kline
Barnes & Noble Upper West Side
Broadway & 82nd Street, New York City
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