A month-long reading group at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, where we will read Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 novel in verse, Aurora Leigh, about the conflict between art and life. More information here: https://centerforfiction.org/group-workshop/elizabeth-barrett-brownings-aurora-leigh-with-joanna-biggs/

I’ll be speaking on the critics panel, with Becca Rothfeld and Ross Barkan, at a symposium on the state of the literary ecosystem at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. More information here: https://sites.duke.edu/lifeofthenovel/

A night of literary fashion readings from Joanna Biggs, Lynette Nylander, Katie Roiphe, Rachel Syme and Audrey Wollen, presented by Mikaela Dery. Sold out.

Reading new work at Black Spring Books in Brooklyn, with Emily Bernard, Sophia Giovannitti and Tracy O’Neill. Free with a cash bar.

A discussion of the work of Alba de Céspedes on the occasion of a new translation, by Goldstein, of There’s No Turning Back (1938). At 92Y in Manhattan, in person and online.

A reading from “A Life of One’s Own.” RSVP for free tickets here

“On Reading” at The American Library in Paris, 7ème

Video of the event

Conversation with Harriet Baker, author of Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann, chaired by Zeljka Marosevic. Sold Out!

Pictures here

Discussion with Fine Gråbøl about her new book, What Kingdom (Archipelago)

Tickets ($5 redeemable in store or $18 with the book) available here

A marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s 1925 novel “The Making of Americans” at Earth, 49 Orchard St, NYC

‘How Should a Woman Live?’ with Sophie Haydock

Discussion with Audrey Wollen about The Halt during the Chase by Rosemary Tonks

Discussion of A Life of One’s Own with Octavia Bright

Launch of A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again with Lauren Oyler and Christine Smallwood

Recording of the event here