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Virtual Events With Lara Prescott, Trixie Mattel, Katya, 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, 4/13-4/19, 4/20-5/3, 5/4-5/17, 5/18-5/31, 6/1-6/14, 6/15-6/28, and 6/29-7/12.

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July 13

• The Strand presents: Lee Conell discusses her debut novel The Party Upstairs with Kevin Wilson (7PM, Zoom)
• Midtown Scholar Bookstore: Live with Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept (7PM, Crowdcast)
• University Bookstore: Attendee Q&A with Jim Butcher, author of Peace Talks (9PM, Zoom)
• Random House Virtual Events: Inside the House with Maya Battle, Assistant Director (12:30PM, Instagram Live)

July 14

• Liberty Bay Books hosts a virtual launch event for the Big Ideas for Little Philosophers by Maureen McQuerry (11AM, Zoom)
• PowerHouse ARENA Virtual Lit Camp Discussion with Torrey Maldonado, author of What Lane? (11AM, Zoom)
• Random House Virtual Events: Writer’s Routine with Diksha Basu, author of Destination Wedding (12:30, Instagram Live)
• Worldbuilders: Live Discussion with Jim Butcher, author of Peace Talks, and Patrick Rothfuss (2PM, Twitch)
• ADA 25 Advancing Leadership: Disability Power Series with Alice Wong, author of Disability Visibility (6PM, Zoom)
• Book Soup: Trixie Mattel & Katya presenting Trixie & Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood (6PM, Crowdcast)
• Square Books: Ace Atkins discusses The Revelators with Jack Pendarvis (6:30PM, Instagram Live)
• Brookline Booksmith: Launch Event for Inheritors by Asako Serizawa, with Molly Antopol (7PM, Crowdcast)
• McNally Jackson: Amanda Brainerd discusses her book, Age of Consent (7PM, Zoom)
• NCRL Virtual Reads with Chanel Cleeton, author of The Last Train to Key West (7PM, Zoom)
• Print Bookstore: Jen Waite launches her fiction debut, Survival Instincts, with Mira Ptacin (7PM, Zoom)
• 92nd St Y & Topic Presents Rough Draft with Reza Aslan featuring guest Lawrence Wright, and his new bookThe End of October (8PM, Streamyard)

July 15

• Random House Virtual Events: Meet the Bookstagrammer with Bezi of @beingabookwyrm (12:30PM, Instagram Live)
• Books of Wonder hosts Torrey Maldonado discusses his new book What Lane? with Phil Bildner (4PM, Instagram Live)
• Happy Hour with authors Chanel Cleeton, author of The Last Train to Key West, and Karen Robards, author of The Black Swan of Paris (5PM, Zoom)
• NPR’s Code Switch featuring Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age (7PM, Instagram Live)
• Nowhere Bookshop with SABF Presents Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept (7PM, Zoom)
• Books Are Magic: Launch event for Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman (7PM, Zoom)
• Random House Virtual Events: Summer Reads with Afia Atakora, Linda Holmes, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Shubhangi Swarup, Ann Napolitano, and Curtis Sittenfeld (8PM, Zoom)
• Pages Bookstore: Steven Rowley discusses his new book The Editor (8PM, Crowdcast)
• An Evening with Trixie Mattel & Katya bookTrixie & Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood (8PM, Zoom)
• Murder by the Book: Attendee Q&A with Jim Butcher, author of Peace Talks (8PM, Zoom)
• Poisoned Pen: Ace Atkins, author of The Revelators, in conversation with J. Todd Scott, author of Lost River (9PM, Facebook Live)

July 16

• Books-A-Million: Ace Atkins discusses The Revelators with C.J. Box (5PM, Crowdcast)
• Politics & Prose presents Michele Harper, author of The Beauty in Breaking (6PM, Zoom)
• Powerhouse Bookstore: A Burning Pizza Affair with Megha Majumdar, Jean Kyoung Frazier, and Sanaë Lemoine (7PM, Zoom)
• Westport Library Virtual 2020 Horror Panel with Rachel Harrison, Alma Katsu, and Paul Tremblay (7PM, Zoom)
• Bernice McFadden and Terry McMillan discuss Sugar in celebration of its 20th anniversary (8PM, Zoom)

July 17

• Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers, in conversation with Michael Zapata (7PM, Crowdcast)
• Booksmith and The Bindery present Trixie Mattel & Katya bookTrixie & Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood (8PM, Zoom)
• Tasveer Author Meets featuring Megha Majumdar author of A Burning (8PM, Zoom)

July 18

• The Book Stall virtual storytime hosts National Regular Average Ordinary Day with Lisa Katzenberger (11:30AM, Crowdcast)
• Murder By the Book: Ace Atkins discusses The Revelators (2PM, Facebook Live)

July 21

• Launch event for Carrie Finison‘s Dozens of Doughnuts in partnership with Belmont Books (6:30PM, Zoom)
• Q&A with Jim Butcher, author of Peace Talks, moderated by Poisoned Pen (9PM, Facebook)

July 22

• P&P Live!: Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy, in conversation with Yascha Mounk (1PM, Zoom)
• Buzz Books Romance with Denise Williams, author of How to Fail at Flirting, and Kerry Donovan (6PM, Zoom)
• Nicholson Baker, author of Baseless, at The Strand hosted by the New Republic (7PM, Zoom)
• Montclair Literary Festival at Home: Bill Buford, author of Dirt, in conversation with Ruth Reichl (7:30PM, Crowdcast)
• Virtual Discussion with Alexandra Burt, author of Shadow Garden, and Amy Gentry, hosted by Book People (8PM, Zoom)
• Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Congress at War, event with Commonwealth Club (9PM, Event)

July 23

• Event featuring Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy, on Autocracy’s Seductive Lure (12:30PM, Zoom)

July 24

• Stephanie Wrobel, author of Darling Rose Gold, hosted by the Danbury Public Library (12PM, Zoom)
• San Diego Comic Con Panel: Your Secret Weapon: How Friendship Saves the Day featuring Max Brallier and Victoria Ying (2PM, YouTube)

July 25

• San Diego Comic Con Panel: Personal, Political, Fictional, and Factual featuring Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed (12PM, YouTube)
• Disability Visibility Online Book Launch: discussion and readings by the editor Alice Wong (7PM, Zoom)

July 26

• A Mighty Blaze YA Weekend: Passport Fiction: Writing International Settings in YA moderated by Randy Ribay, author of Patron Saints of Nothing (2PM, Facebook)