To inquire about speaking engagements, please contact Nancy Aaronson at the Leigh Bureau: NancyA@leighbureau.com.
2023
JAN 5 • NYC Fundraiser • PEN America Author’s Evening • 7-10PM (Details here) JAN 9 • Aspen • Aspen Institute Winter Words • 6:00PM (Details here) FEB 2 • Old Greenwich, CT • Athena Books • 6:30PM FEB 17-19 • Savannah • Savannah Book Festival • (Details here) FEB 21 • San Francisco • City Arts & Lectures • 7:30PM (Details here) FEB 22 • Portland, OR • Portland Arts & Lectures • 7:30PM (Details here) APRIL 2 • Dublin, Ireland • Abbey Theatre Good Friday Agreement Anniversary Event • 6:00 PM GMT (Stream here) APRIL 23 • Cambridge, England • Baillie Gifford Prize Panel • 6:00 PM GMT (Details here) APRIL 11-14 • Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tucson • Literary Society of the Southwest (Tickets here) MAY 10 • London • Sir Harry Evans Summit on Investigative Journalism (Details here) MAY 15 • Boise • The Cabin • 7:30 PM (Tickets here) JUNE 6 • Atlanta • Atlanta History Center • 7:00 PM (Details here) JUNE 7 • New Orleans • Garden District JUNE 8 • St. Louis • Left Bank Books JUNE 9 • Cincinnati • Joseph-Beth Booksellers JUNE 10 • Barrington, RI • Barrington Books JUNE 11 • Woods Hole, MA • Falmouth Forum JUNE 13 • Brooklyn • Greenlight Books at St. Joseph’s University (with Gideon Lewis-Kraus) JULY 22-24 • Sun Valley • Sun Valley Writers’ Conference (Tickets here) AUGUST 8 • Oxford • Blackwell’s • 6:00 (Tickets here) AUGUST 10 • London • Waterstones Gower Street • 6:30 (Tickets here) SEPT 19 • Syracuse • Friends of the Central Library (Tickets here) SEPT 23 • Lenox, MA • WIT Festival (with Daniel Zalewski) (Tickets here) OCT 7 • NYC • The New Yorker Festival OCT 11 • San Francisco • Everlaw Summit ‘23 (Details here) NOV 28 • NYC • Half King at Salgamundi (Tickets here)
2022
JAN 26-28 • Medellín and Cartagena • Hay Festival Colombia (Details here) MARCH 31 • University of Pennsylvania Law School • Ron Litman Memorial Lecture • 5:00 PM (Details here) APRIL 5 • Fairfield University • 7:00 PM (Details here) APRIL 7 • Monmouth University • H.R. Young Lecture • 6:00 PM (Details here) APRIL 10 • Boston Park Plaza Hotel • Boston Public Library Literary Lights Dinner • 6:00 PM (Details here) APRIL 23 • Unbound Book Festival (Columbia, MO) • 1:30 PM (Details here) APRIL 27 • Toronto • RamsayTalks Dinner MAY 14 & MAY 18 • Jaipur Literary Festival Soneva Fushi (Maldives) (Details here) JUNE 10, 11, 12 • Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas (Co. Carlow, Ireland) (Details here) JUNE 12 • Belfast Book Festival (Belfast, N. Ireland) • 6:30 PM (Details here) JUNE 13 • Seamus Heaney HomePlace (Bellaghy, N. Ireland) • 7:30 PM (Details here) JUNE 28 • Brooklyn • ROGUES LAUNCH with E. Tammy Kim • Books Are Magic (Offsite at First Unitarian Church) • 7:00PM (Tickets here) JUNE 29 • Philadelphia Free Library • In Conversation with Karen Heller • 7:30PM (Tickets here) JUNE 30 • Washington, DC • Politics & Prose • In Conversation with James Fallows • 7:00PM (Tickets here) JULY 6 • Boston/Cambridge • Harvard Book Store • Offsite at the Brattle Theatre • 6:00PM (Tickets here) JULY 8 • Berkeley, CA • Booksmith at The Hillside Club • In Conversation with Jonah Weiner • 7:00PM (Tickets here) JULY 12 • Toronto [VIRTUAL] • RamsayTalks • 12:00 Noon (Register here) JULY 23 • Galway International Arts Festival [VIRTUAL] • In Conversation with Catriona Crowe • 4:00 PM GMT (Register here) AUGUST 11 • London • Daunt Books • In Conversation with Sam Knight • 7:00PM AUGUST 15 • Edinburgh Festival (Scotland) • 7:00PM (Tickets here) SEPTEMBER 2 • Wordfest New Zealand [VIRTUAL] • 12:00PM (Register here) SEPTEMBER 11 • Larchmont, NY • Larchmont Public Library • 4:00PM (Details here) SEPTEMBER 29 • Bordeaux • Les Médiathèques de Saint Médard en Jalles • 7:15PM (Tickets here) OCTOBER 8 • New York • The New Yorker Festival • Screening and Q&A with Martin McDonagh (Tickets here) OCTOBER 15 • Nashville • Southern Festival of Books • War Memorial Auditorium • 3:00PM • (Details here) OCTOBER 20 • Frankfurt Book Fair • ARD Bühne • 3:00PM (Details here) OCTOBER 21 • Berlin • Dussmann - Das KulturKaufhaus • 7:00PM (Details here) OCTOBER 23 • Heidelberg • DAI Heidelberg • 5:00PM (Tickets here) OCTOBER 24 • Freiburg • Weingut & Brennerei Andreas Dilger • 7:00PM (Details here) OCTOBER 25 • Hamburg • Literaturhaus Hamburg • 7:30 (Details here) OCTOBER 28 • Boston Book Festival • Kickoff Keynote • Old South Church • 7:30PM (Details here) NOVEMBER 10 • Charleston, SC • Charleston Literary Festival • 6:00PM • In conversation with Ruth Streeter (Tickets here) NOVEMBER 11 • Baltimore, MD • Greedy Reads • 7:00PM (Register here) NOVEMBER 12 • Portsmouth, NH • Writers on a New England Stage • Details soon NOVEMBER 14 • Rancho Mirage, CA • Rancho Mirage Writers Series • 11:00AM (Details here) NOVEMBER 15 • Los Angeles • Writers Bloc / The Ebell • 7:30PM • (Tickets here) NOVEMBER 16 • Santa Cruz, CA • Bookshop Santa Cruz • 7:00PM • (Register here) NOVEMBER 17 • Austin • BookPeople • 7:00PM (Details here) NOVEMBER 18 • Chicago • The Book Stall • 6:30PM (Register here) DECEMBER 12 • Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures • 7:30PM (Tickets here)
2021
APRIL 13 • Book Marks (Winston-Salem) • 7:00 PM • In conversation with Beth Macy (Register here) APRIL 14 • Magic City Books (Tulsa) • 7:00 PM • In conversation with Clint Smith (Register here) APRIL 15 • Green Apple Books (San Francisco) • 9:00 PM EST • In conversation with Jane Mayer (Register here) APRIL 16 • Loyalty Books (Washington, DC) • 6:00 PM • In conversation with Jia Tolentino (Register here) APRIL 18 • Los Angeles Times Festival of Books • 2:00 PM EST • (Register here) APRIL 19 • The Strand (NYC) • 7:00 PM • In conversation with Anand Giridharadas (Register here) APRIL 20 • Porter Square Books (Cambridge) • 7:00 PM • In conversation with Pamela Colloff (Register here) APRIL 21 • Anderson’s (Chicago) • 8:00 PM EST • In conversation with Alec MacGillis (Register here) APRIL 22 • New America Foundation (Washington, DC) • 12 Noon • In conversation with Rachel Aviv (Register here) APRIL 22 • Powell’s (Portland) • 8:00 PM EST • In conversation with Lydia Polgreen (Register here) APRIL 28 • Emmanuel College (Boston) • 7:00 PM EST • (Register here) MAY 6 • Books & Books (Miami) • 7:00 PM • In conversation with Robert Kolker (Register here) MAY 10 • Seattle Arts & Lectures • 7:30 PM PST • (Register here) MAY 11 • Center for Continuing Ed (Mamaroneck, NY) • 7:00 PM • In conversation with Jonathan Blitzer (Register here) MAY 19 • Castle Hill Author Talks (Truro, MA) • 6:00 PM • In conversation with Karen Dukess (Register here) MAY 30 • Larchmont Public Library • 4:00 PM • (Register here) JULY 28 • Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Summer Speaker Series (Ketchum, Idaho) • 7:00 PM (OUTDOORS & IN PERSON) AUG 10 • Congress Square Park (Portland, Maine) • 7:00 PM (OUTDOORS & IN PERSON) NOV 9 • National Arts Club (NYC) • 8:00 PM
2020
PITTSBURGH • FEBRUARY 23 • City of Asylum • 6:00 PM (Tickets here) BROOKLYN • FEBRUARY 24 • Books are Magic • 7:00 PM • In conversation with Gideon Lewis-Kraus PHILADELPHIA • FEBRUARY 26 • Doylestown Bookshop • 6:30 PM BALTIMORE • FEBRUARY 27• Bird in Hand Bookshop • 7:00 PM MIAMI • FEBRUARY 28 • Books and Books • 6:30 PM NEW YORK • MARCH 11 • [CANCELLED] National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Reading • 6:30 PM (Information here) LONDON • MARCH 18 • [CANCELLED] Chelsea Arts Club • 6:00 PM LONDON • MARCH 20 • [CANCELLED] Daunt Books Festival • 1:30 PM • In conversation with Jonathan Shainin (Tickets here) BOSTON • APRIL 26 • [POSTPONED] Emmanuel College • 1:00 PM (Tickets here) STOCKHOLM • MAY 6 • [CANCELED] • Kulturhuset • 7:00 PM (Tickets here) NEW YORK • APRIL 14 • [CANCELED] • Columbia Journalism School • Investigative narrative panel with Jane Mayer and Daniel Zalewski NEW YORK • MARCH 31 • [POSTPONED] NYU Law School • 12:00 PM • Interviewing Samantha Power (Information here)
2019
CHICAGO • OCT 27 • Chicago Humanities Festival, Northwestern University • 2:30 In conversation with Alex Kotlowitz (Tickets here) NEW YORK • OCT 12 • The New Yorker Festival, Florence Gould Hall • 10:00 PM A live storytelling event with Ben Taub (Tickets here) SOUTH BEND, IN • OCT 2 • Notre Dame University, Jenkins Nanovic Hall • 5:00 PM AUSTIN • SEPT 12 • Book People • 7:00 PM CINCINNATI • JULY 25 • The Mercantile Library • 6:00 PM BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY • JULY 12 • Fridays At Five, Hampton Library • 5:00 PM WASHINGTON D.C. • JUNE 20 • New America Foundation + Solid State Books • 600 H St. NE • 7:00 PM In conversation with Nicholas Schmidle SCARSDALE, NY • JUNE 13 • Bronx River Books • 6:30 PM TORONTO • MAY 27 • Ramsay Talks • 7:00 PM (Register here) BROOKLYN • MAY 23 • Books Are Magic • 7:30 PM Interviewing Casey Cep about her book Furious Hours MAMARONECK, NY • MAY 9 • Center for Continuing Ed, Mamaroneck High School • 7:30 PM In conversation with David Grann (Tickets here) LOS ANGELES • APRIL 14 • LA Times Festival of Books Hancock Foundation, USC • 12:00 PM Panel and signing (Tickets here) NEW YORK • APRIL 10 • New York Public Library 5th Avenue and 42nd Street • 6:30 PM Author Talk with Alexandra Schwartz NEW HAVEN • APRIL 9 • Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, Room 129 • 6:10PM NEW YORK • APRIL 2 • Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, NYU 20 Cooper Square • 6:30 PM In conversation with Daniel Zalewski NEW YORK • MARCH 26 • House of Speakeasy, Joe’s Pub 425 Lafayette • 7:00 PM (Tickets here) NEW YORK • MARCH 13 • Columbia Journalism School • 6:00 PM True Crime Panel with Kathryn Schulz, Ginger Thompson and Casey Cep
NEW YORK • MARCH 11 • National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South • 8:00 PM (Free tickets available here) BOSTON • MARCH 9 • Boston Public Library Central Library in Copley Square • 3:00 PM
CAMBRIDGE • MARCH 8 • Harvard Book Store • 7:00 PM
CHICAGO • MARCH 7 • Irish American Heritage Center • 7:00 PM
ST. LOUIS • MARCH 6 • St. Louis County Library • 7:00 PM
WASHINGTON D.C. • FEBRUARY 27 • Politics & Prose 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW • 7:00 PM NEW YORK • FEBRUARY 25 • The Half King Reading Series at The Ship 158 Lafayette Street • 7:00 PM