events
2026
Thursday, 11/5/26. Columbia Writers Series Reading, Penguin Union Building, Clark College, Vancouver, WA, 11 a.m. (More info here.)
Thursday, 11/5/26. Live Wire, Portland Art Museum, Main Building, 1219 SW Park Ave., Portland, OR, 7 p.m. (Tickets here.)
Saturday, 11/7/26. Portland Book Festival. “Portrait of the Artist,” with Alicia Jo Rabins. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., Portland, OR.
Saturday, 11/14/26: Baltimore Writers’ Conference, Towson University, Towson, MD.
Tue., 11/17/26: Tlooth: In conversation with Lucy Sante and Nicholas Delbanco. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Ave., NYC, 7 p.m. (An evening celebrating Harry Mathews.)
Past Events for Three Tenses
Wednesday, 8/12/26: Book launch for Three Tenses & Poured Over podcast taping with Miwa Messer! UWS Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway (82nd St.), NYC, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, 8/25/26. With Thomas Kohnstamm! Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way, Lake Forest Park, WA, 7 p.m.
Monday, 9/14/26. Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY.
Thursday, 9/17/26. With Yiyun Li! Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ, 6 p.m.
Sunday, 9/27/26. With Rachel Aviv and Tom Junod! “Secrets, Lies, and Memory,” Brooklyn Book Festival. Brooklyn Law School, Moot Court Room, 250 Joralemon St., 12 p.m.
Thursday, 10/15/26. Pete’s Reading Series. With Jami Attenberg, Bindu Bansinath, & Alexa Brahme. Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn.
Saturday, 10/17/26. Boston Book Festival. “Bodies of Work” with Yiyun Li! First Church (Sanctuary), 66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, 12:30 p.m.
Thursday, 10/22/26. BPL Presents with Sloane Crosley! Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza (Dweck Center), 7 p.m.
Past Evens for The Repairer of Reputations
Tuesday, 9/29/26. Launch for The Repairer of Reputations—with illustrator/designer Jeff Wong and Ed Lin! Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., NYC, 6 p.m. (You can reserve a signed copy.)
Friday, 10/9/26 Virtual event for The Repairer of Reputations—Soho Crime horror showcase with Leila Siddiqui and David Demchuk. Register here (free). 12 p.m.
Past Events for An Oral History of Atlantis
2025
Tuesday, 7/29/25. Book launch with Rachel Aviv! At McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton St., NYC, at 7 p.m. Register here.
Monday, 8/11/25, 6:45 p.m. Tables of Contents with Anelise Chen & Nicole Cuffy. Farm.One, 625 Bergen St., Brooklyn. Reserve here.
Tuesday, 8/12/25, 7 p.m. With Angie Kim! Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC.
Thursday, 8/21/25, 7 p.m. With Kate Folk! Booksmith, 1727 Haight St., San Francisco, CA. Reserve here.
Friday, 8/22/25, 7 p.m. With Sandi Tan! Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Dr., Los Angeles, CA.Thursday, 9/4/25, 6:30 p.m. With Mira Jacob! Yu & Me Books at the Korea Society, 350 Madison Ave., 24th fl., NYC.
Thursday, 9/11/25, 7 p.m. With Mark Doten (Whites) and Adam Wilson. Powerhouse Arena, 28 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY.
Friday, 9/19/25, 7 p.m. “Radical Histories: A Roundtable of Korean/American Authors,” with Cathy Park Hong, Gina Chung, Alice Sola Kim, & Hannah Bae, moderated by Jane Yong Kim. Hyundai Gallery, 529 W. 20th St., Room 6E, New York, NY.
Sunday, 9/21/25, 4 p.m. “Portraits of the Everyday”: a panel with Lynne Tillman & Jared Lemus, at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Monday, 9/29/25, 5:30 p.m. Asian Studies Program Professor Donald R. Thurston Memorial Lecture Series, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY.
Monday, 10/6/25, 5 p.m. John Christophe Schlesinger Writing Series, 116 Harkness Hall Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Thursday, 10/9/25, 7 p.m. With Torrey Peters. The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House (NYU), 58 W. 10th St., NYC.
Monday, 10/20/25, 6:30 p.m. Deborah Pease Prize, The Century Association, 7 W. 43rd St., NYC.
Sunday, 11/23/25, 2:30 p.m. Miami Book Fair with Gary Shteyngart. Auditorium, Building 1, Room 1261, 2nd fl.), 300 NE 2nd Ave., Miami, FL.
2026
Wednesday, 2/11/26. Russell House Readings, Wesleyan University, 350 High St., Middletown, CT. Details TBA.
Saturday, 3/14/26, 11:30 a.m. (with Lydia Millet) & Sunday 3/15/26, 1:00 p.m. (with Jade Chang & Shobha Rao), Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona Mall, Tucson, AZ. Friday, 4/17/26, 3 p.m.
Sunday, 4/19/26, 12 p.m. “Where Do You Get Your Ideas: Some Notes on Form in Fiction.” A virtual class for A Public Space.
Monday, 8/17/26. Adelphi University Manhattan Center, 529 Fifth Ave., NYC, 6 p.m.
Past Events for Same Bed Different Dreams
2023
Tuesday, 11/7/23, 7 p.m. Book launch with the great Hua Hsu! At The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY.
Thursday, 11/9/23, 7 p.m. A special Poured Over live podcast taping with the fabulous Miwa Messer at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway at 82nd—Manhattan! (Here’s a profile on the Landmark West blog about my UWS bonafides.)
Saturday, 11/11/23, 1:15 p.m. Texas Book Festival, with Tania James (Loot), moderated by Lois Kim. Capitol Extension Room E2.030 (1100 Congress Avenue), Austin, TX.
Monday, 11/13/23, 7 p.m. In conversation with my brilliant Believer writer Natalie So. The Booksmith, 1727 Haight St., San Francisco, CA.
Tuesday, 11/14/23, 7 p.m. In conversation with Spencer Ruchti at Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way, NE, Lake Forest Park, WA.
Tuesday, 11/28/23, 7 p.m. In conversation with the mighty Hillary Chute. Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Rd., Newton, MA.
Sunday, 12/3/23, 2 p.m. Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY.
Monday, 12/4/23, 5 p.m. Plutzik Reading Series, University of Rochester. Rush-Rees Library, 755 Library Rd., Rochester, NY.
2024
Tuesday, 1/9/24, 7 p.m. House of Speakeasy, with Amy Chua, Jane Ferguson, and Noah Rothbaum. Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, 125 Lafayette, NYC.
Thursday, 1/18/24, 7:30 p.m. Pete’s Candy Store, with Francesca McDonnell Capossela and Cleo Qian. 709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn, NY.
Tuesday, 2/6/24, 7 p.m. BOMB Magazine winter issue party, with Naomi Jackson, Mike Lala, and Saretta Morgan. Powerhouse Arena, 28 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY.
Tuesday, 2/20/24, 12 p.m. Center for Critical Korean Studies, in conversation with Joseph Jeon. UCI Community Gateway 101, 611 Humanities Quad, University of California, Irvine.
Monday, 3/4/24, 5–6:30 p.m. Korea Institute, Harvard University, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA. (Zoom registration here.)
Saturday, 4/20/24, 11 a.m. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Hoffman Hall (Edison Auditorium), USC campus. Fiction panel with Vinson Cunningham, Ben Fountain, and Lydia Kiesling. Hoffman Hall.
Saturday, 4/27, 9:30 a.m. Newburyport Literary Festival, Jabberwocky Books at the Tannery, 50 Water Street, Newburyport, MA. With Ryan H. Walsh.
Thursday, 5/16/24, 7:00 p.m. Literary Thursdays at the Queens Public Library (virtual event). Join here.
Saturday, 5/18/24, 4 p.m. With Sandra Newman. Hudson Valley Writers Center, Philipse Manor Station.
Saturday, 6/22/24 12:30 p.m. Keynote speech for Agents & Editors Conference, Writers’ League of Texas
Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m. Reading a new short story for Tod Lippy’s photo book Private at Public Records, 233 Butler St., Brooklyn, NY. With music by Noah and Rosie K and an original video featuring Hampton Fancher (screenwriter of Blade Runner).
Monday, July 15, 7:30 p.m. Book launch for Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, at St. Joseph’s University, 245 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn, NY. (Tickets required.)
Thursday, July 18, 7:30 p.m. Book Club at Westsider Books, 2246 Broadway, NYC
Sunday, 9/29/24, 3:30 p.m. “Alternate Realities”: A panel with Marie-Helene Bertino and Mateo Askaripour, moderated by Lisa Lucas. At the Brooklyn Book Festival, St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague St., Brooklyn.
Wednesday, 4/23/25, 6:30 p.m. I’ll be talking to Ilyon Woo about her Pulitzer-winning book Master Slave Husband Wife. A hybrid event at The Korea Society, 350 Madison Ave., 24th floor, NYC.
Thursday, 8/7/25, 6:30 p.m. Burchfield-Penney Art Center, virtual book club for Same Bed Different Dreams.