With Fergus Bordewich at Politics & Prose, Washington, DC
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Live conversation with Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. VIEW HERE.
Live conversation with David Wright Faladé, author of Black Cloud Rising and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage. VIEW HERE.
Podcast Conversation with Megan Labrise, Fully Booked (Kirk’s Reviews): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/megans-favorite-interviews-of-2023-with-ilyon-woo/id1220910735?i=1000639075483.
UPCOMING EVENTS (2025)
March 26: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
March 28: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
April 5, Chelmsford Public Library, “One Book 2025,” Chelmsford, MA https://chelmsfordlibrary.libcal.com/event/13311383.
April 9, “A Slice of Literary Orange,” Orange County Public Library, Laguna Nigel, CA
April 23, in Conversation with Ed Park, Korea Society, New York, New York
April 27, Literary Lights, Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, MA https://www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-programs/literary-lights/
May 1, Pros&Conversation, WBUR CitySpace, Boston, MA
May 2, In conversation with Scott Casper and Richard Blackett, “Unshackled Lives: American Biographies of Enslavement and Liberation” Conference, Dartmouth, New Hampshire
June 9, “Pink Pages,” Presented by the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital, American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA
September 9, For Nick Boggs, JAMES BALDWIN: A Love Story, Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA
September 20, Conversation with Ed Park, Korea Music Foundation, Yale Club, New York, NY
SOME PAST APPEARANCES…
New South Bookstore, Montgomery, AL
Six Bridges Book Festival, Little Rock, AR
Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley, CA
Long Beach Library, Long Beach, CA, with Ms. Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
LA Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, CA
RJ Julia, Madison, CT
Politics and Prose, Washington, DC
Keynote, Georgia Council for the Social Studies, Athens, GA
Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA
Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur, GA
Douglas Theater, Macon, GA
Savannah Book Festival, Savannah, GA
Iowa City Library Friends, Iowa City, IA
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Belmont Books, Belmont, MA
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA
Nantucket Book Festival, Nantucket, MA
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Baltimore County Public Library, Owings Mills , MD
Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI
Mississippi Book Festival, Jackson, MS
Exeter Lit Fest, Exeter, NH
Morristown Book Festival, Morristown, NJ
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Toledo Public Library, Toledo, OH
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Barnes & Noble, Philadelphia, PA,
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Buxton Books, Charleston, SC
Charleston Literary Festival, Charleston, SC
Bookstock Literary Festival, Woodstock, VT
Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
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