Melissa Pritchard discusses the life of Vernon Lee and reads from her new novel Palmerino at The British Institute of Florence. This special lecture will be held in the Sala Ferragamo in the Harold Acton Library and followed by an informal drinks reception.

Tim Horvath, author of Understories, joins David Kalish (The Opposite of Everything) for a special double author event at Newtonville Books.

Please join Bellevue Literary Press and other independent publishers for the PEN World Voices Festival and Literary Mews book fair, nestled among the cobblestone streets of NYU’s storied Washington Mews. Meet our editorial staff, find great deals on all of our books, and enjoy the place where “global bazaar meets county fair at th[e] second annual festival within the Festival.”

Melissa Pritchard will read from her new novel Palmerino at the launch party for issue #13 of the Superstition Review. During the party, guests will also have free access to the Mesa Arts Center museum, and Superstition Review editors will speak of the work that went into producing issue #13, and discuss their favorite pieces of art, fiction, interviews, nonfiction, and poetry featured in its pages.

Bellevue Literary Press Publisher and Editorial Director Erika Goldman joins NYU faculty and editors from W.W. Norton and Farrar, Strauss and Giroux for conversations about how to break out of the academic model and write for a broader audience. This event is co-sponsored with the New York Institute for the Humanities and will be moderated by the Institute’s Director, Eric Banks and Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian Studies and Faculty Director of the Humanities Initiative.

Tim Horvath reads from Understories at the Portsmouth Public Library

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Maud Casey (The Man Who Walked Away) for a special double author event at BookCourt.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Linda Bamber (Taking What I Like) for a special double author event at Newtonville Books.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Maud Casey (The Man Who Walked Away) for a special double author event at Politics & Prose Bookstore.

Publisher and Editorial Director Erika Goldman and Associate Editor Leslie Hodgkins invite you to visit Bellevue Literary Press at the AWP Bookfair (table K30). On Saturday, March 1, the exhibit hall will be open to the public, and throughout the conference Bellevue Literary Press will be featuring great deals on many of our books, including signed copies of Mary Cappello’s Awkward; Tim Horvath’s Understories; and Gregory Spatz’s Inukshuk.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, will give a reading from her new novel and talk a bit about the Anglo-American community of nineteenth century Florence, particularly the colorful, controversial presence of British writer Violet Paget/Vernon Lee.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Aurelie Sheehan (Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories) for a special double author event at Antigone Books.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Aurelie Sheehan (Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories) for a special double author event at Changing Hands Bookstore.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Jennifer Percy (Demon Camp) and Masha Hamilton (What Changes Everything) for a special discussion about their work as writers and journalists.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Neelanjana Banerjee, Richard Kadrey, Scott Poole, and Carolyn Turgeon for the Writers With Drinks reading series, hosted by Charlie Anders.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Tom Barbash, Lynn Freed, Molly Giles, Glen David Gold, and David Handler (Lemony Snicket) for the Why There Are Words Reading Series Anniversary Celebration.

Paul Harding, author of Tinkers and Enon, delivers a Masters Literature Lecture on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.

The University City Science Center “Lunch for Hungry Minds” seminar series presents Jonathan D. Moreno (introduced by Dr. Nicholas Kefalides), in conversation about Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century.

In celebration of National Reading Group Month, The Strand and the Women’s National Book Association present a discussion about the world of literature and the challenges of contemporary fiction with authors Michèle Forbes (Ghost Moth), Roxana Robinson (Sparta), Caroline Leavitt (Is This Tomorrow), John Searles (Help for the Haunted), Bernice L. McFadden (Nowhere Is a Place), and Elizabeth Nunez (Boundaries).

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

BookCourt welcomes author Michèle Forbes whose reading from Ghost Moth will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

Michèle Forbes, author of Ghost Moth, joins Amy Brill (The Movement of Stars), Dennis McFarland (Nostalgia), Julie Wu (The Third Son), and moderator Michelle Hoover (The Quickening) for a Boston Book Festival panel discussion on “Historical Fiction: Imagining the Past.”

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

Melissa Pritchard, author of The Odditorium and Palmerino, joins Jane Smiley, Vikram Chandra, Kate Miliken, Matt Hart, Rae Gouirand, Russell Dillon, and Sally Ball for a Litquake/ Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series special event.

The Orem Library and the Utah Humanities Book Festival welcome Paul Harding, who will discuss Tinkers during the special highlight event for the Orem Big Read. The Big Read includes many events, scheduled from October 1 through November 14, that are thematically related to Tinkers and free copies of the novel will be available at each program while supplies last.

The Santa Monica Review celebrates its Fall issue with a special event featuring authors Michelle Latiolais (Widow; A Proper Knowledge), Ron Carlson (Return to Oakpine), Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz and Santa Monica Review founder and novelist Jim Krusoe. The Nation magazine contributor and community radio programmer Jon Wiener will host the event.

Eduardo Halfon, author of The Polish Boxer, joins Jamaica Kincaid (See Now Then) and Chinelo Okparanta (Happiness, Like Water) for a discussion at the Brooklyn Book Festival, moderated by Eric Banks, about narrative and the art of storytelling.