Sept. 1
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
Washington, DC
National Book Festival
Sept. 16
BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival
Sept. 21
15th Annual DINNER IN THE LIBRARY
University of California-San Diego
Dinner in the Library-UCSD
Sept. 29
PYGMALION FESTIVAL
University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana
Pygmalion Festival
Oct. 2
INSTITUTE FOR LATINO STUDIES
University of Notre Dame
Institute for Latino Studies
Oct. 8
PITTSBURGH ARTS & LECTURES SERIES
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
Oct. 12-14
SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
Nashville, TN
Southern Festival of Books
Oct. 18
BENEFIT EVENING FOR NO MORE DEATHS
Tucson, AZ
No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes (please support this event, even if you cannot be there)
Oct. 25
RICHARD D. CASTRO DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, CO
MSU Castro Lecture
Oct. 26-28
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
Nov. 3
BEVERLY HILLS LITERARY ESCAPE
Beverly Hills, CA
Beverly Hills Literary Escape
Nov. 10
PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL
Portland, OR
Portland Book Festival
PAST EVENTS
February 1
San Diego CA
UCSD Helen Edison Lecture Series
February 3
San Diego CA
Stravinsky’s L’Historie du Soldate on the border
February 27
Diversity Common Read: Nobody’s Son
Marquette, MI
Northern Michigan University
March 6
BOOK TOUR LAUNCH EVENT
Chicago, IL
The Book Cellar at Sulzer Library
March 7
BOOK TOUR LAUNCH EVENT
Naperville, IL
Anderson’s Bookshop
March 8
BOOK TOUR LAUNCH EVENT
Tucson, AZ
Tucson Festival of Books
March 9-11
BOOK TOUR
Tucson, AZ
Tucson Festival of Books
March 12
BOOK TOUR
Phoenix, AZ
Changing Hands Bookstore
March 13
The Big Read: Into the Beautiful North
Las Cruces, NM
New Mexico State University
March 14
BOOK TOUR
Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque Library Foundation/Bookworks
March 15
The MLK Lecture Series on Nonviolent Social Change
Loudonville, NY
Siena College
March 16
BOOK TOUR
Brooklyn, NY
Books Are Magic with Alexander Chee
March 18
BOOK TOUR
Washington DC
Politics and Prose
March 22
BOOK TOUR
Wichita KS
Watermark Books
March 24
BOOK TOUR
Denver CO
Tattered Cover
March 25
BOOK TOUR
Brentwood, CA
Diesel Bookstore
March 26
BOOK TOUR
Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Bookshop
March 27
BOOK TOUR
San Diego, CA
Warwick’s (pre-order a book for reserved seating)
March 28
BOOK TOUR
Seattle WA
Seattle Public Central Library/Elliott Bay Books
March 29
BOOK TOUR
Portland OR
Powell’s City of Books
March 30
BOOK TOUR
Austin, TX
Book People
March 31
BOOK TOUR
Houston, TX
Brazos Bookstore
April 3
BOOK TOUR
Aspen CO
Aspen WinterWords
April 7
BOOK TOUR
San Antonio, TX
San Antonio Book Festival
April 8
BOOK TOUR
Dallas TX
Dallas Museum of Art with Francisco Cantu
April 9
BOOK TOUR
St. Louis, MO
Left Bank Books
April 18
The Big Read:Into the Beautiful North
Lansing, MI
Michigan State University
April 19
BOOK TOUR
Iowa City, IA
Prairie Lights
April 21-22
BOOK TOUR
Los Angeles, CA
LA Times Festival of Books
April 23
BOOK TOUR
Corte Madera, CA
Book Passage
April 30
BOOK TOUR
Glen Ellyn, IL
The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn
May 3
The Big Read: Into the Beautiful North
Stillwater, MN
Big Read in the St. Croix Valley
May 11
Spring Literary Luncheon
Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Public Library
May 18-19
The Big Read: Into the Beautiful North
Lancaster, PA
Lancaster PA Big Read
June 1-7
Middlebury, VT
Breadloaf Environmental Writers Conference
June 8
BOOK TOUR
Boston, MA
Newtonville Books
June 12
BOOK TOUR
Portland, ME
Print, A Bookstore with Richard Russo
July 15-22
Port Townsend, WA
Sept. 1
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
Washington, DC
National Book Festival
Sept. 16
BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival