**AUTHOR EVENTS**

limited events this year — working on new book(s)

2023:

  • Feb 6, BBC Interview with Colin Murray on BBC Radio 5 Live

  • March 11, 12:30p, Grand Marshal, Seattle Saint Patrick’s Day Parade (with remarks following the parade at Seattle Center armory stage)

  • June 21, 5p, Nantucket Yacht Club, Author Series.

  • June 22, 10:30a to 12p, signing, Mitchell’s Book Corner, Nantucket

  • July 31, 4p, JFK Hyannis Museum, Hyannis, MA. Details and registration: HERE

  • Sept. 6, 7p ET, virtual chat with Kate Clifford Larson at Brookline Adult Ed Center, JFK Birthplace, JFK National Historic Site, and Brookline Booksmith. Register HERE

  • Nov. 4, 11:45 a.m. PT, at the Portland Book Festival, onstage interview with Angie Kim and Edan Lepucki, “Family Secrets” — HERE.

2022:

  • Feb 24, 7p PT: Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park - in-person conversation with former Seattle Times columnist, Nicole Brodeur. Details and registration: HERE.

  • Feb 28, 5:30p ET (in-person + online): Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston. Reception begins at 5:30p. Details and registration: HERE. (*Watch the video: HERE)

  • March 3, 7p ET: Dead of the Winter series, at Ames Chapel, Hingham, MA. Ticketed event. Details HERE.

  • March 4, 11a ET: Coffee @ The JFK Hyannis Museum, Hyannis, MA — in-person coffee/meet & greet, plus virtual stream via Zoom. Details and registration: HERE.

  • March 9, 7:30p ET: Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, NJ — online conversation with author and New York Times reporter Kate Zernike. Details and registration: HERE. (*Watch the video: HERE)

    • Note: I’ll be at Watchung Booksellers 4-6p ET, March 7, to sign books and say hello to anyone who wants to stop by.

  • March 13, 4p PT: “Irish Week” book signing at Seattle Center (in the Armory Food & Event Hall, following the St. Patrick’s Day parade)

  • March 15, 6p PT: Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle, WA — online conversation with author and historian Alexis Coe. Details and registration: HERE

  • March 16, 6p PT: Edmond’s Bookshop, Edmonds WA — online conversation with Honorary Irish Consul John Keane. Details and registration: HERE. (*Watch the video: here)

  • March 23, 6p ET: Square Books, Oxford, Miss. — in-person conversation with Oxford author Ace Atkins. Details and registration: HERE. (*Watch the video: HERE)

  • March 24, 6p ET: Malaprops Bookstore, Asheville, NC — online conversation with bestselling author Denise Kiernan. Details and registration: HERE. Facebook Live: here. (*Watch the video: HERE)

    • Note: I’ll be at Malaprops 4-5p ET, to sign books and say hello to anyone who wants to stop by.

  • March 25, 12p ET: Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, NC, in-person “coffee with the author.” Details: HERE

  • March 25, 4-6p ET: Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC, happy hour meet & greet and book signing. Details: HERE

  • March 26, 3p ET: Politics & Prose, Union Market, Washington, D.C. — in conversation with author Wajahat Ali (new book: Go Back to Where You Came From). Ticketed event; details and registration: HERE. (*Watch the video: HERE)

  • March 29, 7p ET: Tewksbury Public Library, Tewksbury, MA, online conversation (via Zoom). Registration and details: HERE.

  • March 30, 5p ET: University of Scranton, Slattery Center for the Humanities, Scranton PA, in conversation with James Slattery and David Dzurec. Details: HERE.

  • April 6, 7p ET: Hudson Library & Historical Society, Hudson, OH (virtual); signed books available from The Learned Owl.

  • June 3 and 4: Orcas Island Litfest, reading and interview with Tim Egan. Details: here.

  • June 15, 7p ET: Irish American Heritage Museum, Albany NY — online talk/Q&A. Details: here.

  • June 23: Driving with the Devil at NC Humanities “NC Reads” event, at NASCAR Hall of Fame - with NASCAR driver Erik Jones - Charlotte, NC. Registration and details: HERE.

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Previous events, interviews, etc:

  • Tattered Cover (virtual), interview with Denise Kiernan, author of We Gather Together (Nov. 12, 2020)

  • Orcas Island Lit Fest, April 2020 - CANCELLED

  • Yaddo Variations, NYC (May 16, 2019) - with Dani Shapiro (Inheritance) and Jonathan Santlover (The Widower's Notebook)

  • Orcas Island LitFest (April 6, 2019), “The Ties That Bind: Memoirists on Writing About Family,” with Nicole Chung, Cere Demuth, and Terese Marie Mailhot.

  • AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs), Portland OR (March 29, 2019) - “Immortalizing Our Beloveds,” with Claire Dederer, Cinelle Barnes, Nicole Chung, Adrienne Brodeur.

  • AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs), Portland OR (March 29, 2019) - “Now You've Got A Book Deal,” with Cinelle Barnes, Lucy Silag, Hafizah Geter, Nancy Rommelman.

  • Paternal: A Podcast About the Brotherhood of Fatherhood (Oct 17, 2018) - listen HERE

  • Hugo House, Seattle (Sept 26, 2018) - “Writing the Personal” with Jonathan Santlover (The Widower's Notebook) and Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation)

  • Brooklyn Book Festival, NYC (Sept 16, 2018) - “The Fatherhood Spectrum,” with Gregory Pardlo (Air Traffic) and actor Omar Epps (From Fatherless to Fatherhood)

  • Slice Literary Writers Conference, NYC (Sept 8, 2018) - "Mentors, Muses, and Menaces: How Writers Who Came Before Us Shape Our Work Today," with Matt Ortille, Krystal Sital, Harold Shechter, Randy Brown Winston, and Michael Arceneaux.

  • Powells, Portland (July 9, 2018) - in conversation with Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)

  • Northwest Passages Book Club, Spokane (June 13, 2018) - in conversation with Shawn Vestal (Daredevils; Godforsaken Idaho). Coverage in the Spokesman-Review here, here, here - and a cool video here, plus a podcast here.

  • BEA / Book Expo, NYC (June 1, 2018) - Facebook Live at Javitz Center

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