Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, Birdman, The Wire) read a story I wrote at a special Selected Shorts event, curated by Josh Radnor, on February 23. The recording will be broadcast on Selected Shorts.
Posts By: Elliott Holt
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
I wrote one of the sixteen essays in Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, edited by Meghan Daum, and forthcoming (March 31, 2015) from Picador. Of the collection, Publishers Weekly says, “Some entries are heart-wrenching—especially Elliott Holt’s ‘Just an Aunt’—while others are downright hilarious.”
Conversation with Laura van den Berg at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
7 pm: I’ll be interviewing Laura van den Berg about her new novel, Find Me, at Politics and Prose.
Conversation with Meghan Daum at Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C.
6 pm: Meghan Daum and I will discuss her new anthology, Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. (I’m one of the sixteen contributors.)
Conversation with Reif Larsen at Politics and Prose
7 pm: I’ll be interviewing Reif Larsen, author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, about his “gripping…masterly” new novel, I Am Radar.
The Literary United States
Brooklyn Magazine’s “Map of the Best Book for Every State” includes You Are One of Them as the book that best represents Washington, D.C.
PEN/Faulkner Gala in Washington, D.C.
I’ll be reading an original piece at the PEN/Faulkner Gala at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Other writers who will be reading at the gala include: Isabel Wilkerson, Piper Kerman, Adelle Waldman, Mitchell Jackson, Ishmael Beah, David Baldacci, Rachel Pastan, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and Madison Smartt Bell.
Bridge PAI Reading Series in Charlottesville, Va
7 pm: I’ll be reading with poet James Miller at the Bridge in Charlottesville
Reading at McNally Jackson Bookstore in NYC
6:30 pm: I’ll be reading and conversing with a group of fabulous female novelists: Taiye Selasi, Ru Freeman, Tiphanie Yanique, Alison Hart and Mira Jacob.
Time Magazine’s List of 21 Female Authors You Should Be Reading
Thanks, Time, for including me on a list with the amazing likes of Alice Munro, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Claire Messud, Rachel Kushner, and Zadie Smith. Esteemed company!