events - Michelle Richmond

This weekend in Carmel

I’m heading to Carmel, CA, this weekend for the Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival, where I’ll be giving a talk entitled Straddling the Literary Divide: A Southern Writer in the Wild West, as well as conducting a breakout session on inspiration, or the art of finding one’s story. Looking forward to a beautiful dinner on the beach and a room with a view!

The line-up of 35 speakers and authors includes Condoleezza Rice, Roy Blount, Jr, David Brooks, Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Krasny, Tobias Wolff, Kemble Scott, Jane Ganahl, yours truly, and many others.

Tickets are available here. At $550, they’re not cheap, but if you have a mind to patronize the arts and would like to spend a weekend hanging out in a fairly intimate setting with some interesting people, this event might be just your cup of tea.

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.