Category: Events

Video–Virtual Reality: Your Brain on Fiction

Video–Virtual Reality: Your Brain on Fiction

Early in October, I joined Robert Burton, former Chief of Neurology at Mt. Zion-USCF, Mark Vonnegut, memoirist, Elaine Petrocelli, president of the beloved Bay Area bookstore Book Passge, and Stanford professor Blakey Vermeule for a Litquake panel at the Mechanics Institute Library, entitled Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind. Thanks to Evan Karp for videotaping the entire event, which is excerpted here, and thanks to Ransom Stephens for putting the panel together.

Scout, Atticus, Boo…
and You

Scout, Atticus, Boo…
and You

Join me at the San Francisco Public Library on Tuesday, Sept. 28, for a celebration of To Kill a Mockingbird. The evening will begin with a screening of the short documentary Scott, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of 50 Years of To Kill a Mockingbird, by Mary McDonagh Murphy. Then Andrew Sean Greer, Jewelle Gomez, and I will sit down for a panel moderated by Oscar Villalon to talk about the book. I’ll talk about my visit down to Monroeville a few months ago, when I watched the annual local production of To Kill a Mockingbird on the courthouse lawn that inspired the town’s most revered resident, Harper Lee.

This event is also in commemoration of the American Libraries Association’s annual Banned Books Week. Event details here.

Book Launch

Book Launch

Many thanks to the fabulous Ben Fong-Torres for creating this video of the launch party for No One You Know back in 2008. Ben, who is a character in the book, was kind enough to read with me, and even to sing a few bars of a song.