Events

In Conversation with Christina Baker Kline

Roxana Robinson will discuss her new novel Leaving (Norton, 2024) in conversation with Christina Baker Kline. An engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves, “Leaving is a tour de fo...
MDI High School Auditorium • Eagle Lake Road, Bar Harbor • nehlibrary.libcal.com

Past Events

An Intimate Evening Salon with Roxana Robinson

We are thrilled to welcome Roxana Robinson (Cost) to our Members Lounge for an intimate conversation and reading from her powerful new novel, Leaving. Space for this event will be limited and the price of admission includes a copy of Leaving with your choice of a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic bev...
The Center for Fiction • 15 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 • centerforfiction.org

In Conversation with André Bernard at the Stockbridge Library

Stockbridge Library • 46 Main Street Stockbridge, MA 01262 • stockbridgelibrary.org

In conversation with Sue Miller

RSVP at Porter Square Books' website to let them know you're coming and to receive event updates!
Porter Square Books • 25 White Street 1120 • portersquarebooks.com

Hunter College Distinguished Writer Series

Hunter College • 904 Lexington Avenue New York, • hunter.cuny.edu

In Conversation with Marie Arana at Politics and Prose

Politics and Prose • 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, D.C. 20008 • politics-prose.com

In Conversation with Gillian Blake at the Cornwall Library

This is a live event only. Registration is required.
The Cornwall Library • 30 Pine Street Cornwall, CT 3563 • cornwalllibrary.org

Reading from Leaving at The Corner Bookstore

The Corner Bookstore • 1313 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10128 • cornerbookstorenyc.com

Book Launch: In conversation with Dani Shapiro

White Hart Speaker Series: Roxana Robinson, Leaving: A Novel, in conversation with Dani Shapiro.
The White Hart Inn • 15 Undermountain Road Salisbury, CT 6068 • oblongbooks.com

In conversation with Michael Cunningham at the 2023 WIT Festival

Michael Cunningham and Roxana Robinson in Conversation on Mrs Dalloway at 98
Shakespeare & Company • 70 Kemble Street Lenox, MA 672 • authorsguild.org

A Deep Dive into Short Stories: A Workshop for Readers

Writers’ Workshop Program: January 10-14, 2023 Great literature engages the reader on three levels: aesthetic, intellectual, and emotional. In this class we’ll see how this engagement works. We’ll talk about what makes dialogue authentic and why we empathize, how a story creates an emotional landsc...
Key West Literary Seminar • kwls.org

Celebrating Georgia O'Keeffe

Inaugural Annual Literary Benefit: The Cornwall Library’s first annual literary fundraiser will celebrate the 155th birthday of Georgia O’Keeffe. This will feature a slide lecture by Roxana Robinson entitled, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Reading the Work as the Life.” Robinson will show works that illuminate ...
Cornwall Library • 30 Pine Street Cornwall, CT 06753 • cornwalllibrary.org

Georgia O’Keeffe: An Artist’s Life by Roxana Robinson, Writer and author of the biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

In connection with the Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional in Madrid has organized a series of lectures (viewable on Zoom) designed to take a closer look at this great American modern artist. To purchase a ticket for Roxana’s lecture, please click here: https://entrad...
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional • Paseo del Prado, 8 Madrid, SPAIN 28014 • museothyssen.org

At Home with Bunny Williams: A Look at her Personal Collections In Conversation with Roxana Robinson, to benefit the Cornwall Library

The Cornwall Library is delighted to announce a benefit event at the home of our neighbors, legendary Interior designer Bunny Williams, and her husband, antiques dealer John Rosselli. Ms. Williams will discuss some favorite pieces from their personal collection with their friend, author and professo...
Zoom • Falls Village , CT • cornwalllibrary.org

Georgia O'Keeffe: The Life of an American Artist Virtual Q&A

We invite you to join Professor Roxana Robinson as we celebrate the new, expanded edition of her 1989 biography, Georgia O’Keeffe: The Life of an American Artist, which has been praised as, “The Best book ever written on O’Keeffe…An invaluable resource.” In conversation with Dawn Tripp, bestselling ...

Anna Karenina "Cornwall Read Great Fiction" Discussion Series

Author and Cornwall resident Roxana Robinson will lead a discussion of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, for 9 weeks beginning Tuesday, January 12, at 4 pm through March 9. Each week, through Zoom meetings, Roxana will read a short excerpt from the book, and then lead a discussion of the week’s reading. Cla...

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Join us for a conversation with Roxana Robinson, author of Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life, which was first published in 1989. 30 years later, the updated expanded edition features a new preface by Robinson setting O’Keeffe in artistic context, and never before published letters between O’Keeffe and Arthur...

Kentucky Book Festival

Writing Historical Fiction: Margaret Verble in conversation with Roxana Robinson, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Each of the fascinating protagonists in these novels set from the 1860s to the 1960s and beyond navigate challenges of morality, political and social divides, culture ...

Kentucky Women Writers’ Festival

I will be speaking at the Kentucky Women Writers’ Festival on September 10th and 12th. Click here for itinerary

New York Society Library

New York Society Library • nysoclib.org

International Launch Party for The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Click here for tickets The Lying Life of Adults is the first novel in five years from Elena Ferrante, author of the bestselling and beloved Neapolitan quartet. The long-awaited release calls for a pub day party with Ferrante fans from all over the world! On September 1, join Ferrante’s star transla...
Center for Fiction • centerforfiction.org

In Conversation with Honor Moore

Kent Memorial Library • 32 North Main Street Kent, CT 06757 • kentmemoriallibrary.org

Reading and Talk on Dawson's Fall

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center • 77 Forrest Street Hartford, CT

Reading and Talk: Dawson's Fall

Johan Fust Library • 1040 West 10th St. Boca Grande, Florida 33921 • jfcl.org

Reading and Talk on Dawson's Fall

Boston Atheneum • 539 Washington St Boston, MA 02111 • bostonathenaeum.org

Conversation with Jill McCorkle

McIntyre Books • 240 Market Street Pittsboro, NC

Conversation between Roxana Robinson and Lee Smith

Quail Ridge Books • Raleigh , NC • quailridgebooks.com

Panel with Cathleen Schine and Sarah Baker

Miami Book Fair • miamibookfair.com

Reading and Talk at the Library Society

Library Society of Charleston • 164 King Street Charleston, SC • charlestonlibrarysociety.org

Reading and Talk at Mattapoisett Free Library

Mattapoisett Free Library • 7 Barstow Street Mattapoisett , MA • eventkeeper.com

House of Speakeasy - Into the Silence

Joe's Pub - Public Theatre • 155 Varick Street New York , NY • publictheater.org

Reading at Brattleboro Book Festival

Brooks Library • 224 Main Street Brattleboro , VT • brattleboroliteraryfestival.org

Boston Book Festival

Reading from Dawson's Fall

Hunter College • 904 Lexington Avenue New York, • hunter.cuny.edu

National Book Festival

Blue Hill: Reading and Discussion

Blue Hill Books • Blue Hill Library Blue Hill, Maine • bhpl.net

Hickory Stick Bookstore: Reading and Discussion

Hickory Stick Bookstore • Washington Depot, Connecticut • hickorystickbookshop.com

Annual Booksigning, Hotchkiss Library, Sharon CT.

Hotchkiss Library, • 10 Upper Main Street Sharon , CT • hotchkisslibrary.org

North Haven: Reading and Discussion

North Haven Library • 33 Main Street North Haven, Maine 04853 • northhavenlibrary.org

Coffee and Conversation, with Karen Waldron

College of the Atlantic • Deering Common Bar Harbor, Maine • coa.edu

Roxana Robinson discusses Dawson's Fall

Northeast Harbor, Jesup and Southwest Harbor Libraries • Mount Desert High School Maine • jesuplibrary.org

Roxana Robinson in conversation with Richard Russo

PRINT: A BOOKSTORE • 273 Congress Street Portland, Maine • printbookstore.com

Jackson Memorial Library

Jackson Memorial Library, St. George • ME • jacksonmemoriallibrary.org

Cornwall Library, 30 Pine Street, Cornwall CT

Cornwall Library • 30 Pine Street Cornwall, CT 06753 • cornwalllibrary.org

Roxana Robinson in conversation with Amy Bloom

The Mount • Lenox, Mass • edithwharton.org

The White Hart Speaker Series: Roxana Robinson

by Oblong Books & Music
The White Hart • 15 Under Mountain Road Salisbury, CT 06068 • eventbrite.com

Reading from Dawson's Fall at Politics and Prose

Politics & Prose • 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, D.C. 20008 • politics-prose.com

Between Two Worlds: Roxana Robinson with Cheryl Pearl Sucher

Roxana Robinson discusses her new novel Dawson’s Fall with Cheryl Pearl Sucher.
McNally Jackson • 52 Prince St New York, NY 10012 • mcnallyjackson.com

Reading from Dawson's Fall at the Corner Bookstore

The Corner Bookstore • 1313 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10128 • cornerbookstorenyc.com

With Jacki Lyden at the Center for Fiction

Roxana Robinson will be in conversation with award-winning journalist and long-time NPR reporter and host, Jacki Lyden.
Center for Fiction • centerforfiction.org

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: A CREATIVE LIFE

An Evening with Roxana Robinson and Linda M. Grasso: Two expert authors discuss O’Keeffe’s coming of age in modernist America and her identity as an independent artist and trailblazing feminist. These presentations followed by lively conversation will examine O’Keeffe’s intense personal relationship...
New York Botanical Garden • 2900 Southern Boulevard 10458 • nybg.org

The Challenges of Peace Activism

Reading List: Sparta by Roxana Robinson, Why Civil Resistance Works by Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth How do peace activists stay in the fight? The antiwar movement today is demoralized and directionless, and the entire planet seems to be sleepwalking towards disaster. Our panelists include writ...
Left Forum • leftforum.org

WNBA Centennial Celebration

It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the WNBA’s Centennial Celebration. Festivities include a cocktail reception; presentation of the WNBA Second Century Prize to Todd Bol of Little Free Library; launch of Women in the Literary Landscape: A Centennial Publication of the Women’s National Book A...
Pen+Brush • 29 East 22nd Street New York, NY 10010 • eventbrite.com

A.K. Smith Visiting Scholars Series

All readings are free and open to the public. A reception and book-signing will follow each event.
Trinity College • Smith House’s Reese Room • trincoll.edu

Southampton Writers Conference

Chancellors Hall, Stony Brook Southampton • 239 Montauk Highway 11968 • stonybrook.edu

The Writer's Hotel

The Writers Hotel • Various Locations • writershotel.com

Kent County Public Library

Kent County Public Library • 408 High Street 21620 • kentcountylibrary.org

Cornwall Historical Society

Cornwall Town Hall • 26 Pine St • facebook.com

Fiction by Black Writers: Who Are the Readers?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Yaa Gyasi…some of today’s biggest names in fiction are black writers, and yet a predominantly white publishing industry maintains the assumption that black literature lacks marketability. Join writer and distinguished academic Dr. Elizabeth Nu...
Brooklyn Historical Society • 128 Pierrepont St 11201 • eventbrite.com

Intersections of Art and Life

Join Dawn Tripp (Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe,)Roxana Robinson (Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life,) and author and critic Donna Seaman (Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists) for a fascinating exploration of the intersections of fact and fiction in creative writing, and the str...
The Center for Fiction • 15 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 • centerforfiction.org

Novelists Read Knausgaard

**Volume 1, January 25 led by Roxana Robinson: **Since the first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s sprawling work appeared in English in 2012, the series has garnered wide acclaim from critics and attracted a passionate following among readers. “My Struggle” has also been notably embraced and celebrat...
Center for Fiction • centerforfiction.org

Ferrante Night Fever

The publication of Frantumaglia and The Beach at Night on November 1 is going to be the publishing event of the season. Over 70 stores nationwide will be holding #FerranteNightFever events during the week of October 31. We are delighted to be hosting a panel assembled by Europa Editions.
McNally Jackson Bookstore • 52 Prince Street 10012 • mcnallyjackson.com

Brooklyn Book Festival: Seven Ways of Looking at War

Seven short readings from seven authors writing from center, edge and the aftermath of endless wars: Elliot Ackerman (Green on Blue), Deni Ellis Bechard (Into the Sun), Benjamin Busch (Dust to Dust: A Memoir), Lea Carpenter (Eleven Days) Matt Gallagher (Youngblood), Jen Percy (Demon Camp: A Soldier’...
Humboldt & Jackson • 434 Humboldt Street 11211 • brooklynbookfestival.org

Keynote: Rights & Content in the Digital Age

At this half-day event, “Rights and Content in the Digital Age,” leading experts in the book and media industries — including literary agents, publishers and digital service providers — will highlight cutting-edge strategies to help you maximize your IP and grow your rights business. In this digita...
Grand Hall, NYU Kimmel Center • 60 Washington Sq. South • publishingperspectives.com

The Muse and the Marketplace: GrubStreet's national conference for writers

The Right to Write: Who owns the story? Stories come from different sources: dreams, overheard conversations, our own lives, watching and listening, feeling and perceiving. So, when you overhear someone’s conversation, or someone tells you about something she’s just been through, or when you suddenl...

PEN World Voices Festival - Elena Ferrante: Frantumaglia

With Ann Goldstein, Roxana Robinson, Judith Thurman • Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has become a worldwide sensation with her Neapolitan novels. Ferrante’s longtime English-language translator joins Festival authors to discuss the work of this famously enigmatic author, and her collection of essay...
The Greene Space • 44 Charlton St 10014 • worldvoices.pen.org

AWP: Peter Ho Davies, Joyce Carol Oates, and Roxana Robinson: A Reading and Conversation

Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novel The Welsh Girl, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and two story collections, The Ugliest House in the World and Equal Love. Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, wh...
Concourse Hall, LA Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level One • awpwriter.org

AWP: Helping: A Tribute to Robert Stone

On his passing in January 2015, Robert Stone was hailed as one of the most significant American novelists of the last half-century—a chronicler of disillusionment and moral disorder in post-Vietnam America, and of the often disastrous consequences of American idealism abroad. This panel gathers frie...
Diamond Salon 6&7, JW Marriott LA, 3rd F • awpwriter.org

Reading by Roxana Robinson, Rosati fellow

Q&A, book signing and reception following. Free and open to the public.
Duke University • Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, 153 Rubenstein Library • calendar.duke.edu

January 2016 - Roxana Robinson on Georgia O'Keeffe

University of Mary Washington • umw.edu

October 23-25, 2015 - Fiction Workshop at the Harvest Writers Retreat

The Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport • 140 Ocean Ave • mainewriters.org

Roxana Robinson on Georgia O'Keeffe

College of the Atlantic • Deering Common Bar Harbor, Maine • coa.edu

Brooklyn Book Festival

Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza • 209 Joralemon Street • brooklynbookfestival.org

Roxana Robinson on the Human Side of War 6:10-6:55 pm

Roxana Robinson will speak at the National Book Festival as part of The Human Side of War: A Tribute to the American War Experience, 1942-2015.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center • 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW • loc.gov

The Muse and the Marketplace

What is Great Fiction
Boston Park Plaza Hotel • 50 Park Plaza • museandthemarketplace2015.com

Early September, 2015 - The Novel Experience Convocation

Roxana Robinson will discuss her novel Sparta with first year students and the Wofford community at large.
Wofford College • wofford.edu

Writers Speak Wednesdays

Stony Brook Southampton • 239 Montauk Highway • stonybrook.edu

Roxana Robinson on Georgia O'Keeffe

Center Director Philip Kunhardt will introduce Roxana Robinson, novelist, short story writer, and biographer to present a talk entitled “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Life We Want.”
The Center for the Study of Transformative Lives • 53 Washington Square South • eventbrite.com

Writers Read NYC

Please join us for our March Reading, featuring exciting work from Nancy Jainhill, Andrée Lockwood, Marcia Pelletiere, and Roxana Robinson.
The Sidewalk Café • 94 Avenue A (corner of 6th St.) • writersreadnyc.com

Rutgers MFA Program

Lu Burke Reading Series

talk and signing
Southbury Library • 100 Poverty Rd. • southbury-ct.org

Fall 2019 Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College

Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College, West Building, 8th floor (Southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and East 68th Street)
Hunter College • 904 Lexington Avenue New York, • hunter.cuny.edu

Nimrod Conference for Readers and Writers

The University of Tulsa • 800 South Tucker Drive • utulsa.edu

On Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante’s translator Ann Goldstein and novelists Stacey D’Erasmo and Roxana Robinson will talk about their passion for the acclaimed Italian writer and about her newest book, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.
The Center for Fiction • 15 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 • centerforfiction.org

Fall for the Book Book Festival

Novelist Roxana Robinson and Journalist David Finkel
George Mason University • Grand Tier III, Center for the Arts (4400 University Drive) • fallforthebook.org

US Air Force Academy

Through Sept. 11th

Panel on Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

The Mount • Lenox, Mass • edithwharton.org

An Evening with Ann Beattie and Roxana Robinson

Doors at 6:30 p.m., Show at 7:00 p.m.
Space Gallery • 538 Congress Street • hosted.verticalresponse.com

Reading

Jesop Library

Wesleyan Writers Conference

Through the 15th

War Lit Panel

PEN World Voices Festival
Wollman Auditorium • 65 West 12 Street

Adrian Bonbenberger - War Lit Panel

Panel with David Abrams, Matt Gallagher and Adrian Bonenberger, to celebrate his new book, Afghan Post.
Strand Bookstore • 828 Broadway, New York

Literary Festival

2017 PEN+NE Literary Awards

Roxana Robinson will keynote the 2017 PEN New England Literary Awards celebrating the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction and the PEN/New England Awards for Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction. Free and open to the public. Reservations recommended.
John F. Kennedy Library • 02125 • pen-ne.org

Berkshire Festival of Women Writers

Panel on transgendered writing at Berkshire Women Writers Festival.
Lichtenstein Arts Center • Renne Avenue

Tucson Festival of Books

Novelists on Loss and Love (Saturday, 11:30am); Fiction: Worlds In Transition (Sunday, 11:30am); Fiction: The Wreckage of War (Sunday, 2:30p.m.)

Reading

Discussion with David Finkel, moderated by Noreen Tomassi.

Discussion with David Finkel, moderated by Noreen Tomassi.
Center for Fiction • centerforfiction.org

Interview on the Digital Age with Jim Zirin

Conversation with Davyne Verstandig

Warner Theatre

Brattleboro Literary Festival

Conversations on Practice: A Series run by Glenn Kurtz.

McNally Jackson Bookstore • 52 Prince Street 10012 • mcnallyjackson.com

Reading and Signing

Toadstool Books • 12 Depot Sq. • toadbooks.com

Reading

Witherle Library • 2321

Gala for Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance

Tess Gerritsen House, Camden Hills State Park • 280 Belfast Road 04843

Reading/Signing

Cornwall Library • 30 Pine Street Cornwall, CT 06753 • cornwalllibrary.org

Book-signing

House of Books • Main Street

Book Signing

Hotchkiss Library, • 10 Upper Main Street Sharon , CT • hotchkisslibrary.org

Brown Bag Luncheon Reading

Portland Library • 5 Monument Square

Reading from Sparta

Northeast Harbor Library • Joy Street Northeast

Reading from Sparta

College of the Atlantic, Gates Auditorium

Reading from Sparta

Ocean View Grange

Reading

Politics and Prose Bookstore • 5015 Connecticut Ave.

Reading/signing

Hickory Stick Books • 2 Green Hill Road 06793

Reading/Signing

Book Court • 163 Court Street 11201

NYU Summer Writing Intensive

Two-week Summer Intensive Program in Creative Writing.
New York University

Wesleyan Writers Conference

Reading from Sparta

Porter Square Books • 25 White Street 1120 • portersquarebooks.com

Reading/signing

Boston Atheneum • 539 Washington St Boston, MA 02111 • bostonathenaeum.org

Newtonville Books • 10 Langley Road 02459

Printers Row Book Festival

Conversation with Elizabeth Taylor, Literary Editor of the ‘Chicago Tribune’.
University Center/Loop Room

Launch for novel Sparta

Reading and Signing; Launch for novel Sparta
Center for Fiction • centerforfiction.org

Savannah Book Festival - Reading and Talk - Dawson's Fall

First Baptist Church • 1223 Bull Street Savannah , Georgia • savannahbookfestival.org

International Womens' Writers Guild - Discussion with Deirdre Baird

Cornell Club • 6 East 44th Street New York , NY 10017 • cathleenoconnor.com