Algonquin authors are available to call in or Skype with your book club. If you’d like to submit a request, please email inquiry(at)algonquin(dot)com. For details on any of the author events listed below, please contact the event venue.
SEPTEMBER
Tuesday, September 11
LOS ANGELES, CA – Skylight Books, 7:30 pm
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Wednesday, September 12
MILWAUKEE, WI – Boswell Books, 7:00 pm
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Thursday, September 13
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Magers & Quinn, 7:30 pm
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Saturday, September 15
WINONA, MN – The Bookshelf Author Dinner Series, 6:30 pm
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Wednesday, September 19
SEATTLE, WA – University Bookstore, 7:00 pm
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
**With Maria Semple
Thursday, September 20
NEW YORK CITY, NY – The Strand (828 Broadway), 7:00 pm
Janet Groth, author of The Receptionist
**In conversation with Calvin Trillin
Sunday, September 23
BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Book Festival
Hillary Jordan, author of When She Woke
Monday, September 24
DENVER, CO – Tattered Cover, 7:30 pm
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Friday, September 28 – Sunday, September 30
BALTIMORE, MD – Baltimore Book Festival
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
OCTOBER
Tuesday, October 3
LAKE FOREST PARK, WA – Third Place Books, 7:00 pm
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Friday, October 5 – Sunday, October 7
MISSOULA, MT – Montana Book Festival
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Thursday, October 11
NEW YORK CITY, NY – Here Arts Center (146 6th Ave), 8:30 pm
Janet Groth, author of The Receptionist
**Talk and signing after “The Best of Everything” play.
Sunday, October 14
OMAHA, NB – Bookworm of Omaha, 1:00 pm
Steven Wolf, author of Comet’s Tale
Sunday, October 14
NEW YORK CITY, NY – Carnegie House East (1844 Second Ave), 3:00 pm
Janet Groth, author of The Receptionist
Tuesday, October 16
NEW YORK CITY, NY – CUNY’s Leon Levy Center for Biography (365 Fifth Avenue), 7:00 pm
Tab Hunter, author of Tab Hunter Confidential
**In conversation with Eddie Muller, the writer for the book, and Gary Giddens, critic and Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
Monday, October 22
NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York Society Library (53 E. 79th St),6:30 pm
Janet Groth, author of The Receptionist
**In conversation with New Yorker reporter Mark Singer.
Saturday, October 27 – Sunday, October 28
AUSTIN, TX – Texas Book Festival
Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
NOVEMBER
Thursday, November 1
NEW CANAAN, CT – New Canaan Library and Elm St. Books luncheon (151 Main St, New Canaan), 12:00 pm
B.A. Shapiro, author of The Art Forger
Thursday, November 1
HARTFORD, CT – Hartford Public Library (500 Main St, Hartford), 6:00 pm
B.A. Shapiro, author of The Art Forger
Friday, November 2
MADISON, CT – RJ Julia (768 Boston Post Rd, Madison, CT), 7:00 pm
B.A. Shapiro, author of The Art Forger
Thursday, November 8
NASHVILLE, TN – Vanderbilt University
Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow
Friday, November 9
SEDONA, AZ – Well Red Coyote, 7:00 pm
Steven Wolf, author of Comet’s Tale
Thursday, November 15
OCONOMOWOC, WI – Books and Company, 6:00 pm
Julia Pandl, author of Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
Friday, November 16
MYSTIC, CT – Bank Square Books (53 West Main St, Mystic), 12:00 pm
Bill Roorbach, author of Life Among Giants
Saturday, November 17
WESTPORT, CT – Westport Public Library (20 Jessup Rd, Westport), 1:00 pm
Bill Roorbach, author of Life Among Giants
Sunday, November 18
SHOREWOOD, WI – Shorewood Public Library, 2:00 pm
Julia Pandl, author of Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
Sunday, November 18
NEW YORK CITY, NY – KGB (85 East 4th St), 7:00 pm
Bill Roorbach, author of Life Among Giants
Wednesday, November 28
NEW YORK CITY, NY – The Coffee House Club (20 W. 44th St), 7:00 pm
Janet Groth, author of The Receptionist
**In conversation with Foster Hirsch.
Thursday, November 29
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Magers & Quinn, 7:30 pm
Julia Pandl, author of Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
FEBRRUARY 2013
Thursday, February 21
SALISBURY, MD - Wor-Wic Community College (Echoes and Voices Reading Series)
Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow
Saturday, February 23
HOOVER, AL – Hoover Public Library (Southern Voices Festival)
Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow
APRIL 2013
Saturday, April 27
MILWAUKEE, MN – Delta Memorial Endowment Fund (Literary Luncheon)
Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow
JUNE 2013
Monday through Friday, June 24-28
PURCHASE, NY – Manhattanville College (Summer Writers’ Week)
Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow
