November 5, 2019
New York City, NY
Books are Magic
In conversation with Emma Straub
7:30 PM
November 6, 2019
Wake Forest, NC
Page 158 Books
6:30 PM
November 7, 2019
Charlotte, NC
Verse & Vino with Karen Abbott, Ross Gay, and Alice Hoffman
6:00 PM
November 11, 2019
Nashville, TN
Parnassus Books
6:30 PM
Past Readings
September 25, 2018
Nashville, TN
Parnassus Books
6:30 PM
November 26, 2018
Cincinnati, OH
University of Cincinnati Visiting Writers Series
7:00 PM
April 17, 2018
Jackson, MS
Millsaps College Arts and Lecture Series
Reading with Mary Miller
7PM
November 30, 2017
Lafayette, LA
Deep South Festival of Writers
Reading with Leigh Anne Couch
7 PM
October 14, 2017
Nashville, TN
Southern Festival of Books
NPL Special Collections Room
12 PM
April 29, 2017
Little Rock, AR
Arkansas Literary Festival
Panel with Katie Kitamura
5:30 PM
April 3, 2017
Murfreesboro, NC
Chowan University
Mary Frances Hobson Lecture
7:30 PM
January 23, 2017
Birmingham, AL
Alabama Booksmith
5:00 PM
January 24, 2017
Memphis, TN
The Booksellers at Laurelwood; event hosted by Bounty on Broad
2519 Broad Ave, Memphis, TN 38112
6:30 PM
January 25, 2017
Oxford, MS
Square Books
Pop-Up Oxford
5:00 PM
January 26, 2017
Nashville, TN
Parnassus Books
6:30 PM
January 28, 2017
Denver, CO
Writers Respond to Readers 2017
January 29, 2017
Portland, OR
Powell’s Books
7:30 PM
January 30, 2017
Menlo Park, CA
Kepler’s Books
7:30 PM
January 31, 2017
San Francisco, CA
The Booksmith
7:30 PM
February 1, 2017
Seattle, WA
The Elliott Bay Book Company
7:00 PM
February 2, 2017
Pasadena, CA
Vroman’s Bookstore
7:00 PM
February 7, 2017
Asheville, NC
Malaprop’s Bookstore
6:00 PM
February 8, 2017
Raleigh, NC
Quail Ridge Books
7:00 PM
February 9, 2017
Durham, NC
The Regulator Bookshop
7:00 PM
August 25, 2015
Young Harris, GA
Young Harris College
Sellers Lecture Series
6:00 PM
August 1, 2015
Sewanee, TN
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
4:15 PM
January 27, 2015
Memphis, TN
Rhodes College
7:00 PM
October 2, 2014
Nashville, TN
Gertrude and Harold Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series
7:00 PM
February 5, 2014
Farmville, VA
Hampden-Sydney College
4:30 PM
September 28, 2013
Murfreesboro, TN
Middle Tennessee Writers’ Conference
October 10, 2013
Statesboro, GA
Georgia Southern University (reading with Brock Clarke)
7:00 PM
March 28, 2013
Columbus, GA
Southern Literary Festival at Columbus State University
(Reading with Madge McKeithen)
Studio Theatre of the Riverside Theatre Complex
February 19, 2013
Nashville, TN
East Side Storytellin’
(Reading with Amanda Shires)
Rumours East
7:00 PM
November 28, 2012
Sewanee, TN
Friends of the Library Event
Convocation Hall
4:00 PM
October 13, 2012
Gainesville, FL
2012 Florida Writers’ Festival
8PM (Reading with Karen Solie)
May 24, 2012
Iowa City, IA
Prairie Lights Books
May 23, 2012
Denver, CO
Tattered Cover Book Store
7:30 PM
May 22, 2012
Austin, TX
BookPeople
7 PM
May 18, 2012
Seattle, OR
University Bookstore
7 PM
May 17, 2012
Portland, OR
Powell’s Bookstore
7:30 PM
May 16, 2012
Los Angeles, CA
Book Soup
7 PM
May 15, 2012
Pasadena, CA
Vroman’s Bookstore
7 PM
May 14, 2012
Corte Madera, CA
Book Passage
7 PM
April 25, 2012
Nashville, TN
Parnassus Books
6:30 PM
April 18, 2012
Decatur, GA
Dekalb County Public Library
7:15 PM
January 19, 2012
Evansville, IN
Ropewalk Reading Series
University of Southern Indiana
5 PM
October 29, 2011
Chattanooga, TN
Meacham Writers’ Workshop
Chattanooga Theatre Center (Reading with Sybil Baker, Gaylord Brewer, and Charles Fort)
2 PM
October 16, 2011
Southern Festival of Books
12:00 PM
House Chambers
October, 14, 2011
Louisville, KY
InKY Reading Series (Writer’s Block Festival Kick Off Event)
8:00 PM
Reading with Catherine Bowman
October 11, 2011
Atlanta, GA
Georgia State University
7:30 PM
September 26, 2011
Charlottesville, VA
University of Virigina (UVA Bookstore)
8:00 PM
September 19, 2011
New York, NY
Barnes & Noble, Tribeca
6:00 PM
September 18, 2011
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival
11:00 AM
St. Francis Screening Room
Subverting Normality (with Jessica Hagedorn & Arthur Phillips) Reading and Q&A
August 27, 2011
Asheville, NC
Malaprop’s Bookstore
7PM
August 25, 2011
Raleigh, NC
Quail Ridge Books
7:30 PM
August 24, 2011
Charlotte, NC
Park Road Books
August 23, 2011
Miami, FL
Books & Books
August 22, 2011
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store
7PM
August 20, 2011
South Hadley, MA
Odyssey Bookshop
August 18, 2011
Jackson, MS
Lemuria Books
5:30PM
August 17, 2011
Greenwood, MS
Turnrow Book Company
5:30PM
August 16, 2011
Oxford, MS
Square Books
5PM
August 15, 2011
Memphis, TN
The Booksellers
August 11, 2011
Birmingham, AL
Alabama Booksmith
4PM
August 10, 2011
Atlanta, GA
Barnes & Noble (Buckhead)
7PM
August 9, 2011
Chattanooga, TN
Barnes & Noble (Hamilton Place)
7PM
May 4, 2011
Davis, CA
UC Davis
126 Voorhies
7 PM
April 22, 2011
New York, NY
Emerging Writers Reading Series
KGB Bar
7:00 PM
Reading with students from the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program
April, 7, 2011
Clemson, SC
Clemson Literary Festival
Friar’s Tavern
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Reading with Rhett Iseman Trull, Kevin Gonzalez, and John McNally
April 4, 2011
Mahwah, NJ
Ramapo College of New Jersey Visiting Writers Series
1:00 PM
Reading with Kevin Craft
February 14, 2011
Knoxville, TN
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
John C. Hodges Distinguished Creative Writers’ Series
February 5, 2011
Washington, DC
Monster Mags of the Midwest Off-Site AWP Reading (with Lucy Corin, Bob Hicok, Cate Marvin, and Erika Meitner)
7:00 PM
Bread & Brew
October 20, 2010
St. Louis, MO
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Gallery 210, UMSL, 44 E. Drive, One University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121.
7:00 PM
October 13 – 15, 2010
Cincinnati, OH
Emerging Fiction Writers Festival at the University of Cincinnati
April 23, 2010
Montevallo, AL
Montevallo Literary Festival
April 17, 2010
Bowling Green, KY
Southern Kentucky Book Fest
March 27, 2010
Chattanooga, TN
Meacham Writers’ Workshop
Rock Point Books (Reading with Marc Fitten and James Tate)
2 PM
February 24, 2010
Philadelphia, PA
Widener University
4 PM
October 17, 2009
Baton Rouge, LA
2009 Louisiana Book Festival
Reading
House Committee Room 2
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM
October 17, 2009
Baton Rouge, LA
2009 Louisiana Book Festival
New Stories from the South panel
House Committee Room 6
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
October 10, 2009
Nashville, TN
2009 Southern Festival of Books
Reading with John Pritchard
House Chambers
4:00 PM
October 10, 2009
Nashville, TN
2009 Southern Festival of Books
New Stories from the South panel
House Chambers
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
October 1, 2009
Nashville, TN
Vanderbilt University Visiting Writers Series
7:00 PM
September 24, 2009
New York, NY
The New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation (part of the NYU Creative Writing Program Reading Series)
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
7:00 PM
In conversation with Darin Strauss
September 5, 2009
Decatur, GA
2009 Decatur Book Festival
First Baptist Decatur Chapel Stage
3:00 PM
(Reading with Marc Fitten and Sang Pak)
May 16, 2009
Knoxville, TN
Carpe Librum Booksellers
May 15, 2009
Asheville, NC
Malaprop’s Bookstore
April 23, 2009
Chattanooga, TN
Rock Point Books
April 21, 2009
Atlanta, GA
DeKalb County Public Library/Georgia Center for the Book
April 17, 2009
Blytheville, AR
That Bookstore in Blytheville
April 16, 2009
Oxford, MS
Square Books
April 15, 2009
Memphis, TN
Davis-Kidd Booksellers
April 14, 2009
Greenwood, MS
Turnrow Book Co.
April 13, 2009
Jackson, MS
Lemuria Books
April 9, 2009
Nashville, TN
Davis-Kidd Booksellers
April 2, 2009
Greensboro, NC
UNCG Faculty Center (part of the distinguished visiting writers series)
April 1, 2009
New York, NY
Joe’s Pub (The Happy Ending Reading Series with writers Amy Cohen and Colson Whitehead and musical guest Sam Amidon)