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.orgIn conversation with Sue Miller
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Porter Square Books • 25 White Street 1120 • portersquarebooks.com Hunter College Distinguished Writer Series
Hunter College • 904 Lexington Avenue New York, • hunter.cuny.eduIn Conversation with Marie Arana at Politics and Prose
Politics and Prose • 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, D.C. 20008 • politics-prose.comIn Conversation with Gillian Blake at the Cornwall Library
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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.comBook 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.
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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.
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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.
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New York Society Library
New York Society Library • • nysoclib.orgInternational Launch Party for The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
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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.orgReading and Talk on Dawson's Fall
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center • 77 Forrest Street Hartford, CTReading and Talk: Dawson's Fall
Johan Fust Library • 1040 West 10th St. Boca Grande, Florida 33921 • jfcl.orgReading and Talk on Dawson's Fall
Boston Atheneum • 539 Washington St Boston, MA 02111 • bostonathenaeum.orgConversation with Jill McCorkle
McIntyre Books • 240 Market Street Pittsboro, NCConversation between Roxana Robinson and Lee Smith
Quail Ridge Books • Raleigh , NC • quailridgebooks.comPanel with Cathleen Schine and Sarah Baker
Miami Book Fair • • miamibookfair.comReading and Talk at the Library Society
Library Society of Charleston • 164 King Street Charleston, SC • charlestonlibrarysociety.orgReading and Talk at Mattapoisett Free Library
Mattapoisett Free Library • 7 Barstow Street Mattapoisett , MA • eventkeeper.comHouse of Speakeasy - Into the Silence
Joe's Pub - Public Theatre • 155 Varick Street New York , NY • publictheater.orgReading at Brattleboro Book Festival
Brooks Library • 224 Main Street Brattleboro , VT • brattleboroliteraryfestival.orgReading from Dawson's Fall
Hunter College • 904 Lexington Avenue New York, • hunter.cuny.eduBlue Hill: Reading and Discussion
Blue Hill Books • Blue Hill Library Blue Hill, Maine • bhpl.netHickory Stick Bookstore: Reading and Discussion
Hickory Stick Bookstore • Washington Depot, Connecticut • hickorystickbookshop.comAnnual Booksigning, Hotchkiss Library, Sharon CT.
Hotchkiss Library, • 10 Upper Main Street Sharon , CT • hotchkisslibrary.orgNorth Haven: Reading and Discussion
North Haven Library • 33 Main Street North Haven, Maine 04853 • northhavenlibrary.orgCoffee and Conversation, with Karen Waldron
College of the Atlantic • Deering Common Bar Harbor, Maine • coa.eduRoxana Robinson discusses Dawson's Fall
Northeast Harbor, Jesup and Southwest Harbor Libraries • Mount Desert High School Maine • jesuplibrary.orgRoxana Robinson in conversation with Richard Russo
PRINT: A BOOKSTORE • 273 Congress Street Portland, Maine • printbookstore.comJackson Memorial Library
Jackson Memorial Library, St. George • ME • jacksonmemoriallibrary.orgCornwall Library, 30 Pine Street, Cornwall CT
Cornwall Library • 30 Pine Street Cornwall, CT 06753 • cornwalllibrary.orgRoxana Robinson in conversation with Amy Bloom
The Mount • Lenox, Mass • edithwharton.orgThe White Hart Speaker Series: Roxana Robinson
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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.comBetween 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.comWith 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.eduThe Writer's Hotel
The Writers Hotel • Various Locations • writershotel.comKent County Public Library
Kent County Public Library • 408 High Street 21620 • kentcountylibrary.orgCornwall Historical Society
Cornwall Town Hall • 26 Pine St • facebook.comFiction 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.eduOctober 23-25, 2015 - Fiction Workshop at the Harvest Writers Retreat
The Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport • 140 Ocean Ave • mainewriters.orgRoxana Robinson on Georgia O'Keeffe
College of the Atlantic • Deering Common Bar Harbor, Maine • coa.eduBrooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza • 209 Joralemon Street • brooklynbookfestival.orgRoxana 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.eduRoxana 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.â€
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 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.eduOn 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.orgAn 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 LibraryWesleyan Writers Conference
Through the 15th
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 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.)
Discussion with David Finkel, moderated by Noreen Tomassi.
Discussion with David Finkel, moderated by Noreen Tomassi.
Center for Fiction • • centerforfiction.org Conversation with Davyne Verstandig
Warner TheatreConversations on Practice: A Series run by Glenn Kurtz.
McNally Jackson Bookstore • 52 Prince Street 10012 • mcnallyjackson.comReading and Signing
Toadstool Books • 12 Depot Sq. • toadbooks.comReading
Witherle Library • 2321Gala for Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
Tess Gerritsen House, Camden Hills State Park • 280 Belfast Road 04843Reading/Signing
Cornwall Library • 30 Pine Street Cornwall, CT 06753 • cornwalllibrary.orgBook-signing
House of Books • Main StreetBook Signing
Hotchkiss Library, • 10 Upper Main Street Sharon , CT • hotchkisslibrary.orgBrown Bag Luncheon Reading
Portland Library • 5 Monument SquareReading from Sparta
Northeast Harbor Library • Joy Street NortheastReading from Sparta
College of the Atlantic, Gates AuditoriumReading from Sparta
Ocean View GrangeReading
Politics and Prose Bookstore • 5015 Connecticut Ave.Reading/signing
Hickory Stick Books • 2 Green Hill Road 06793Reading/Signing
Book Court • 163 Court Street 11201NYU Summer Writing Intensive
Two-week Summer Intensive Program in Creative Writing.
New York University Reading from Sparta
Porter Square Books • 25 White Street 1120 • portersquarebooks.comReading/signing
Boston Atheneum • 539 Washington St Boston, MA 02111 • bostonathenaeum.orgPrinters 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