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Virtual Events With Misty Copeland, Tana French, and More

As we stay indoors during uncertain times, we’re staying connected with each other and the stories and authors who inspire us. We’re compiling the virtual Penguin Random House book events, author Q&A’s and more that are happening each week (EST), and will be updating this page daily. Even if you miss an event streaming live, please check back here and watch the recordings.

October 5

• The Strand hosts Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library (5PM, Crowdcast)
• Random House Virtual Events: Inside the House Justine Magowan (5:30PM, Instagram)

• Misty Copeland, author of Bunheads, in conversation with Veronica Chambers, author of Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb, hosted by Barnes & Noble (7PM, Facebook)

October 6

• Politics & Prose hosts Lulu Delacre, author of Luci Sours (10AM, Zoom)
• Virtual launch event for What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers, hosted by Books of Wonder (5PM, Crowdcast)
• Community Bookstore hosts Tana French, author of The Searcher, in conversation with Dennis Lehane (5PM, Zoom)
• P&P Live!: Jennifer Taub, author of Big Dirty Money (6PM, Zoom)
• Angry Teenage Girls panel with Hayley Krischer, Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf, and Ashley Woodfolk, Flyy Girls series (6PM, Zoom)
• Book Passage hosts Annie Barrows, author of Iggy is Better Than Ever (7PM, Zoom)
• Murder by the Book Presents a Live Conversation with Sherry Thomas, author of Murder on Cold Street (8PM, Facebook)
• St. Louis County Library hosts Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library (8PM, Zoom)
• Random House Virtual Events: Big Ideas Night: Gun Reform featuring Toni Jensen, Carry, David Hogg and Lauren Hogg, #NeverAgain, and Senator Chris Murphy, The Violence Inside Us, and Erica Ford of LIFE Camp, Inc. (8PM, Event)

October 7

• Random House Virtual Events: Writer’s Routine featuring Katie Arnold, author of Running Home (5:30PM, Instagram)

• Boston Book Festival: Reading Like a Writer Author Panel featuring Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain, Anna Solomon, Leaving Lucy Pear, and David Heska Wanbli Weiden (6PM, Crowdcast)
• Craft with Denise Kiernan, author of We Gather Together, and S. A. Cosby (7PM, Crowdcast)
• The Strand hosts Anaïs Mitchell, author of Working on a Song, with Patrick Page (7PM, Crowdcast)
• The Book Stall hosts Annie Barrows, author of Iggy is Better Than Ever (7:30PM, Crowdcast)

October 8

• Books & Books hosts event for What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers (5PM, Crowdcast)
• Politics & Prose Live! hosts Tana French, author of The Searcher in conversation with Marlon James (5PM,
• Random House Virtual Events: Meet the Bookstagrammer David of @hisreadingnook (5:30PM, Instagram)

• The Sophia Institute hosts Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Book of Longings (6:30PM, Zoom)
• The Episcopal Booksellers Association hosts conversation with Bishop Michael Curry, author of Love is the Way (7PM, Zoom)
• Harvard Bookstore hosts Susan Minot, author of Why I Don’t Write, in conversation with Amy Hemepl (7PM, Event)

October 9

• Politics and Prose event featuring Phil Klay, author of Missionaries (6PM, Zoom)
• #LeerNosUne Live: A Virtual Author Panel in Celebration of Latinx Heritage Month featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Paola Ramos, Vincent Toro, Gabriella Burnham (9PM, Zoom)

October 10

• Third Place Books hosts event for What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers (2PM, Zoom)
• Powell’s Books hosts John Jory & Liz Climo, First Day Critter Jitters (2PM, Zoom)
• The Poisoned Pen hosts Sherry Thomas, author of Murder on Cold Street (5PM, Facebook)
• The Strand Presents: James Hibberd, author of Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon (7PM, Crowdcast)
• Space Cowboy Books Presents featuring Christopher Ruocchio, author of the Sun Eater series (9PM, Zoom)

October 12

• Random House Virtual Events: Inside the House featuring senior designer Jen Wang (5:30PM, Instagram)
• Seattle Arts & Lectures features Tana French, author of The Searcher, in conversation with Ruth Ware (10:30PM, Zoom)

October 13

• Warwick’s hosts Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library, in conversation with Margarita Montimore (3PM, Facebook)
• Shalom Auslander, author of Mother for Dinner, in discussion with Cheryl Pearl Sucher (4PM, Zoom)
• JCC Network hosts Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos, author and illustrator of I am Anne Frank and I am Benjamin Franklin (5PM, Zoom)
• Community Bookstore and Murmrr present Jeff Tweedy, author of How to Write One Song (7:30PM, Zoom)
• Hoda Kotb, author of This Just Speaks to Me event (8PM, Cadenza)

October 14

• Murder By The Book features Tana French, author of The Searcher (4PM, Zoom)
• An Unlikely Story hosts Oliver Jeffers, author of What We’ll Build (4PM, Crowdcast)
• Tucson Festival of Books hosts Sarah Chayes, author of On Corruption in America (6PM, Crowdcast)
• Odyssey Bookshop hosts Jennifer Taub, author of Big Dirty Money, in discussion with Amy Siskind (7PM, Zoom)
• Quail Ridge Books hosts Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of Daughter of Black Lake, in conversation with Therese Fowler (7PM, Zoom)
• Politics & Prose hosts Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos, author and illustrator of I am Anne Frank and I am Benjamin Franklin (7PM, Zoom)
• Arvin Ahmadi, author of How It All Blew Up, in conversation with Angie Thomas (7PM, Instagram)
• The Hideout and Seminary Co-op present Jeff Tweedy, author of How to Write One Song (8PM, Event)
• Hoda Kotb, author of This Just Speaks to Me event (8PM, Cadenza)

October 15

• Shondaland series featuring Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half (2PM, Instagram)
• The Wisconsin Book Festival presents Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here, in conversation with Judith Claire Mitchell (4PM, Crowdcast)
• Random House Virtual Events: Meet the Bookstagrammer featuring Lex of @lex_withthe_text (5:30PM, Instagram)
• Random House Virtual Events: One World Ideas x Action featuring Riva Lehrer, author of Golem Girl, and Molly Crabapple, author of Brothers of the Gun (8PM, Zoom)
• City Arts & Lectures hosts Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name, in conversation with Jia Tolentino (9PM, Zoom)
• Wisconsin Book Festival featuring Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age, and Angie Kim (9:30PM, Crowdcast)

October 16

• Brookline Booksmith hosts John Hodgman, author of Medallion Status (7PM, Zoom)
• Quail Ridge Books hosts Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of Daughter of Black Lake, in conversation with Meg Waite Clayton (7PM, Crowdcast)
• Brattleboro Literary Festival hosts Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning (7PM, Zoom)

October 17

• Rakestraw hosts Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library, in conversation with Patrick Nolan (12:30PM, Crowdcast)
• Brattleboro Literary Festival hosts Susan Minot, author of Why I Don’t Write, in conversation with Peter Orner (3PM, Zoom)
• Brattleboro Literary Festival hosts Sarah Chayes, author of On Corruption in America (3:15PM, Zoom)
• Wisconsin Book Festival hosts Janna Levin, author of Black Hole Survival Guide, in conversation with Brian Greene (7PM, Zoom)

October 18

• FIYAHCON 2020 Virtual Panel: “Mothers and Daughters: The Good, the Bad, and the Strange” featuring Alexis Henderson, L.L. McKinney, Maria Haskins, and Rivers Solomon (12PM, Zoom)
• East City Bookshop hosts Sherry Thomas, author of Murder on Cold Street, and Evie Dunmore, author of A Rogue of One’s Own (1PM, Event)