A reading, discussion, and Q&A with one of the best bookstores in the Northeast.

Shamus Khan, chair of the sociology department at Columbia University, is one of the best thinkers alive about elites, and also a close friend from high school. I am absolutely thrilled to be talking with him at the Klingenstein Center, Columbia’s school for independent school educators. We’ll be talking about boarding school, squash, and books, but also specifically about the creation of whiteness at elite institutions, and what it means for people of color and white people to try to live up to those ideals.

I can’t wait to read with the wonderful authors Anna Pitoniak, Lynne Cluess Manzione, Sande Boritz Berger, & Carol LaHines.

Benjamin Markovitz has written beautifully and prolifically about the first-person experience of playing high-level sports, and so I’m thrilled to be reading and talking with him on the day his novel Christmas in Austin launches.

I’ll be reading and having a conversation with the brilliant Marina Budhos, author most recently of The Long Ride.

Can’t wait to read in Providence, RI with the fantastic authors Kate Racculia (TUESDAY MOONEY TALKS TO GHOSTS), Maaza Mengiste (THE SHADOW KING), and Rachel Eve Moulton (TINFOIL BUTTERFLY).

I’ll be signing books and talking with readers at Elm Street Books. Looking forward to meeting New Canaan readers!

I’m so excited to appear with the fantastic authors Krystal Sital, Gina Apostol, Briallen Hopper, and De’Shawn Winslow. Description from the festival:

“For many writers, one of the greatest challenges is finding the time to write, and then, after finally sitting down to work, being able to focus on the task at hand—and it isn’t just a matter of shutting off the internet connection (though that can help!). They have to navigate pressure from day jobs, family, society, and more, in order to find a way to sustain their writing careers. A group of authors discusses the trials and tribulations of the writing life, and how they’ve managed to make it work.”

The great authors Kim Magowan, Daphne Kalotay, Val Nieman, Beth Winegarner, Kalpana Mohan, and I will be reading about Wilderness.

I’ll be reading and having a conversation with the brilliant Katharine Dion, author of The Dependents.

In conversation with Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, A Visit From the Goon Squad, and many others.

The Expectations will be published by Little, Brown & Company on July 16, 2019. You can pre-order the book now.