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Virtual Events With Erik Larson, C Pam Zhang, 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.

See events that took place 3/23-3/29, 3/30-4/5, 4/6-4/12, and 4/13-4/19.

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Ongoing Events

• Penguin Kids Story Time Live with various authors April 20-24 (11AM, Instagram)

April 20

• Mondays with Michelle Obama: The Gruffalo (12PM, YouTube)

• Sarah Urist Green, author of You Are an Artist, happy hour with Robyn O’Neil (12PM, Instagram)
• Random House Virtual Events: Inside the House featuring Whitney Frick on editing and publishing for The Dial Press (12:30PM, Instagram Live)

• Hex Lunch Break with Anna Wiener hosted by Booksmith (3PM, Zoom)
• R.J. Julia Booksellers event with Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road, with Roxanne Coady (7PM)
• Casey Schwartz, author of Attention: A Love Story, in conversation and Q&A with Jeff Martin for Magic City Books (8PM, Zoom)
• Mental Health Matters: I.W Gregorio and Friends featuring Randy Ribay, author of Patron Saints of Nothing (9PM, Facebook Live)

April 21

• Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Book of Longings, interview with Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed (12PM, Instagram Live)
• Dr. Lisa Mosconi, author of The XX Brain, in conversation with Lauren Miller Rogen (12:30PM, Instagram Live)
• Random House Virtual Events: Lunch & Laugh featuring Judd Apatow, author of Sick in the Head (12:30PM, Instagram Live)
• Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Book of Longings, interview and Q&A with A Mighty Blaze (2PM, Facebook)

• Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt with The Riveter founder, Amy Nelson, to discuss The Gift of Forgiveness (3PM)
• Read With The Ivy featuring Abi Daré, author of The Girl with the Louding Voice (4:30PM, Zoom)
• Verona Comics virtual book launch with Jennifer Dugan (5PM, Instagram Live)
• Conversation with Adriana Trigiani and Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile (6PM, Facebook Live)
• Christina Dalcher, author of Master Class, Launch Event (6:30PM, Crowdcast)
• Philadelphia Citizen & Harriett’s Bookshop present Citizen Virtual Town Hall: Book Club with Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age (6:30PM, Crowdcast)
• At Home with Literati featuring Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, author of Hex and Kevin Nguyen, author of New Waves (7PM, Zoom)
• Midtown Scholar Bookstore hosts conversation between Geoff Edgers and Andy Greene, author of The Office (7PM, Crowdcast)
• Andrea Bartz, author of The Herd, in conversation with Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, with Warwick’s (7PM, Zoom)
• Janelle Brown, author of Pretty Things, with Books Are Magic (7PM, Zoom)
• The Antibody Reading Series with Greenlight Bookstore featuring C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold (8PM, Zoom)
• Random House Virtual Events: Big Ideas Nights Presents National Poetry Month featuring Olivia Gatwood, Nate Marshall, Jana Prikryl, Jenny Zhang, Fatimah Asghar, and Billy Collins (8PM, Zoom)

• Time of Our Lives launch event with Pages featuring Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (9PM, Instagram Live)

April 22

• Random House Virtual Events: Writer’s Routine featuring Afia Atakora, author of Conjure Women (12:30PM, Instagram Live)

• Discussing Censorship with Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT, Betsy Gomez, and Ellie Diaz (1PM, Facebook Live)

• Stony Brook Southampton Shop Talk Live Stream: Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age, with Paul Harding (3PM, YouTube Live)

• Chris Bohjalian, author of The Red Lotus, in conversation with Tall Poppy Writers in Bloom (4PM, Facebook Group)
• Our Health Talks featuring Dr. Will Cole, author of The Inflammation Spectrum (5PM)
• Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile, in conversation with Christina Baker Kline (7PM, Zoom)
• Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Book of Longings, Barnes & Noble Event (7PM, Facebook Live)

• Mark Morris, author of Out Loud, in conversation with Wesley Stace (7:30PM, Crowdcast)
• P&P Live! featuring Jonathan Karl, author of Front Row at the Trump Show, in conversation with Mike McCurry (8PM, Crowdcast)
• The Quarantine Book Club Hosts Randy Ribay, author of Patron Saints of Nothing (8PM, Zoom)

April 23

• Nina Renata Aaron, author of Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, in conversation with Zibby Owens (11AM, Instagram Live)
• Elysian Magazine’s Ignite Virtual Series featuring Susan Meissner, author of The Last Year of the War, in conversation with Kristy Woodson Harvey (12PM, Zoom)
• Politics and Prose Event with Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, authors of Designing Your Work Life (12:30PM, Crowdcast)
• Tricycle Magazine Online Practice Sessions featuring Tara Brach, author of Radical Compassion (1PM, Zoom)
• Random House Virtual Events: Happy Hour with Robert Simonson, author of The Martini Cocktail (4PM, Instagram Live)
• Jenny Offill, author of Weather, reading and conversation with Darin Strauss (6PM, Zoom)
• Susan Meissner, author of The Last Year of the War, in conversation with Hub City Bookshop (6PM, Zoom)
• Jeni McFarland, The House of Deep Water, in conversation with Dasha Kelly Hamilton (7PM, Youtube Live)
• Penguin Presents: John Kenney, author of Love Poems for Anxious People, and Sally Kim (7PM, Instagram Live)
• Alexander Halberstadt, author of Young Heroes of the Soviet Union, with Greenlight Bookstore and Brooklyn Public Library (7:30PM, Zoom)
• The Cornell Institute of Politics and Global Affairs and Chris Riback’s Conversations presents: Front Row at the Trump Show: A conversation with ABC News’s Jonathan Karl (8PM, Zoom)
• Goodnight with Dolly: Dolly Parton reading Max and the Tag-Along Moon (8PM, YouTube)
• Green Apple Bookstore event with C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold (8PM, Instagram Live)

April 24

• Virtual Con hosted by Penguin Random House (all day, all events here)
• Kevin Nguyen, author of New Waves, and C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, participate in the Buzzfeed Book Club with Veronica Roth and John Scalzi (1:30PM, Zoom)

• Simon Sinek‘s book club for Start With Why (3PM, YouTube Live)
• John Barry, author of The Great Influenza, in conversation with The Great Courses (3PM, Facebook Live)

• Jeni McFarland, The House of Deep Water, in conversation with Andy Johnson with Brazos Bookstore (7PM, Instagram Live)
• Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror, in conversation with Kaia Gerber (8PM, Instagram Live)

April 25

• Massimo Pigliucci, Skye Cleary, and Dan Kaufman, editors of How to Live a Good Life, in conversation about their life philosophies (5PM, Meetup)
• P&P Live! featuring Samantha Irby, author of Wow, No Thank You., in conversation with Maris Kreizman (7PM, Crowdcast)

April 26

• Random House Virtual Events: Coffee With… Mia Rigden, author of The Well Journal (12PM, Instagram Live)
• Susan Spungen, author of Open Kitchen, in conversation with David Lebovitz (12PM, Instagram Live)
• Politics & Prose presents: David Allen Sibley, author of What its Like to be a Bird (5PM, Crowdcast)

April 27

• Amanda Quick talk and live signing of Close Up ordered from The Poisoned Pen Bookstore (2PM, Facebook Live)
• Wordplay Happy Hour with Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here, and Alison Roman, author of Nothing Fancy (5PM, Facebook and Instagram Live)

April 28

• Live signing with Dave Rubin, author of Don’t Burn This Book (12:30PM, YouTube Live)
• RH Virtual Events: Lunch & Learn with Megan Monahan, author of Don’t Hate, Meditate! (12:30PM, Instagram Live)
• Elaine Welteroth, author of More Than Enough, & Melody Ehsani with P&P Live @ Lunch! (1PM, Crowdcast)
• Wordplay: conversation and Q&A with Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, author of Hex, & Quan Barry, author of We Ride Upon Sticks (2PM, Crowdcast)
• Read Together Be Together: Christopher Eliopoulos reads The Yawns Are Coming! (3PM, Instagram Live)
• Jamil Zaki, author of The War for Kindness, in conversation with The Great Courses (3PM, Facebook Live)

• Square Books event featuring Foxfire Story (5PM, Instagram Live)
• Lauren Sandler, author of This Is All I Got, panel discussion with NYU Institute for Public Knowledge (6PM, YouTube Live)
• Susan Meissner in Conversation with Myers Park Country Club (6PM, Zoom)
• Christopher Eliopoulos, author of The Yawns Are Coming!, launch event with An Unlikely Story (6:30PM, Crowdcast)
• Caroline Welch, author of The Gift of Presence, in conversation with Sharon Salzberg with Harvard Bookstore (7PM, Crowdcast)
• Stephen Fried, author of Rush, in conversation with Kevin Butterfield (7PM, YouTube Live)
• Politics & Prose event with Ishmael Beah, author of Little Family (7PM, Crowdcast)
• Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, Virtual Book Launch with Nicholas Kristof (8PM, Zoom)
• Casey Schwartz, author of Attention: A Love Story, in conversation with Jessica Bennett (9PM, Crowdcast)

April 29

• Jon Mooallem, author of This Is Chance!, in conversation with Connie Schultz, with National Press Club Journalism Institute and Politics & Prose (11:30AM, Zoom)
• RH Virtual Events: Well Enough Today featuring Kelsey J. Patel, author of Burning Bright (12:30PM, Instagram Live)
• Live reading from Jennifer Steil, author of Exile Music (3PM, Facebook Live)
• BookPeople Presents: Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, authors of When Stars Are Scattered, and (5PM, Zoom)
• Our Health Talks featuring Dr. Will Cole, author of The Inflammation Spectrum (5PM)
• Pittsburgh Arts & Letters event featuring David Allen Sibley, author of What It’s Like to Be a Bird (7PM, Zoom)
• Pen and Brush Presents LIT TALKS with Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson, and Mary South (7PM, YouTube)
• Odyssey Bookshop event featuring Amity Gaige, author of Sea Wife (7PM, Zoom)
• Bess Kalb, author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, with Harvard Book Store (7PM, Crowdcast)
• RH Virtual Events: Random House Book Club April Happy Hour discussing The Herd by Andrea Bartz (7:30PM, Zoom)
• Lauren Sandler, author of This Is All I Got, in conversation with Nikita Stewart, author of Troop 6000, with Greenlight Bookstore x Brooklyn Public Library (7:30PM, Zoom)

April 30

• Politics & Prose event with Christopher Eliopoulos, author of The Yawns Are Coming! (10AM, Crowdcast)
• Virtual Wordplay Fest presents: Middle Grade Roundtable featuring Omar Mohamed, author of When Stars Are Scattered (10:30AM, Crowdcast)
• Lauren Sandler, author of This is All I Got, in conversation with Zibby Owen (11:15AM, Instagram Live)
• The Last Kids on Earth: June’s Wild Flight by Max Brallier event at Indigo Books (3PM, Instagram Live)
• Elaine Welteroth, author of More Than Enough, in conversation with Aurora James with The Wing (4PM, Zoom)
• RH Virtual Events: Happy Hour with Jon Bonne, author of The New Wine Rules (4PM, Instagram Live)
• Jennifer Dugan, author of Verona Comics, event with Northshire Bookstore (5PM, Zoom)
• Esther Safran Foer, author of I Want You to Know We’re Still Here, and Keith Gessen in a conversation with Stephanie Butnick, co-presented by Jewish Book Council, the Jewish Museum, and Tablet Magazine (7PM, Zoom)
• Harvard Book Store event featuring Amity Gaige, author of Sea Wife (7PM, Zoom)
• Get Lit with All Of It live book club with James McBride, author of Deacon King Kong (7PM, YouTube Live)
• C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, in conversation with Jacqueline Woodson, co-hosted by Belletrist & Midtown Scholar Bookstore (7PM, Instagram Live)
• Talk and Q&A with Ben Katchor, author of The Dairy Restaurant (7PM, Zoom)
• RH Virtual Events: Writer’s Routine featuring Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face (7:30PM, Instagram Live)
• Free Library of Philadelphia: Samantha Irby author of Wow, No Thank You., in conversation with Jia Tolentino (7:30PM, Crowdcast)
• Goodnight with Dolly: Dolly Parton reads There’s A Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake (8PM, YouTube)
• RH Virtual Events: One World Ideas x Action featuring Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans, and Quiara Alegria Hudes, moderated by One World Executive Editor Elizabeth Mendez Berry (8PM, Zoom)

May 1

• Jacqueline Woodson reads Pecan Pie Baby (11:15AM, Facebook Live)
• Jay Heinrichs, author of Thank You For Arguing (4th Edition), in conversation with The Great Courses (12PM, Facebook Live)
• Gabby Rivera, author of Juliet Takes a Breath, at Everywhere Book Fest (2PM, YouTube Live)
• Simon Sinek‘s book club for Start With Why (3PM, YouTube Live)
• FOLD 2020: Better Bring the Book Club featuring Sheena Kamal, Adnan Khan, Sonya Lalli and Mona Awad discuss books and book clubs with Ann Y K Choi (4PM, Zoom)
• Politics & Prose event featuring Amity Gaige, author of Sea Wife (6PM, Crowdcast)
• Janelle Brown, author of Pretty Things, in conversation with Kaira Rouda, with Laguna Beach Books (8PM, Zoom)

May 2

• Max Brallier, author of The Last Kids on Earth Series, at Everywhere Book Fest (11AM, YouTube Live)
• Jessica Kim, author of Stand Up, Yumi Chung!, at Everywhere Book Fest (2PM, YouTube Live)
• Nic Stone, author of Dear Martin, keynote speaker at Everywhere Book Fest (3PM, YouTube Live)
• Discussion on How to Live a Good Life with Massimo Pigliucci, Skye Cleary, and Dan Kaufman (5PM, Zoom)

May 3

• RH Virtual Events: Coffee with… Conor Knighton, author of Leave Only Footprints (11AM, Instagram Live)
• Readers Coffeehouse Live featuring Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War (1PM, Facebook Live)
• Afia Atakora, author of Conjure Women, Q&A and Book Club Chat with Harriett’s Bookshop and Afrikanah Book Club (6:30PM, Tickets)