Reese Okyong Kwon interviewed me for The Millions.
Posts By: Elliott Holt
The Writer’s Center in Bethesda
2 pm: Reading and book signing with Katherine Hill (author of The Violet Hour)
The Toronto Star review
The Toronto Star says: “Elliott Holt’s output prior to this terrific debut consisted of a number of short stories, one of which won the prestigious Pushcart Prize in 2011. For years she worked as a copywriter in glamour spots such as New York, London and Moscow. And while ad agencies rarely function as farm teams for… Read more »
Video of Reading/Conversation with Michael Cunningham at the Center for Fiction
On May 30, 2013, Elliott Holt and Michael Cunningham discussed Holt’s novel at the Center for Fiction in New York. Watch the video here.
One More Page Books, Arlington, VA
7 pm: Reading and Book Signing
National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
5: 30 pm 36th Annual Book Fair and Authors’ Night
Fiction Addiction at 2A, New York
8 pm: Reading at Fiction Addiction with other Guernica Magazine writers at 2A (Second Street and Avenue A) in New York.
The New Yorker review
Briefly noted in The New Yorker (July 29 issue): “Holt’s beguiling début reimagines the story of Samantha Smith, the ten-year-old American girl who, in 1983, started a correspondence with the Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov. In Holt’s novel, the Smith character, named Jennifer Jones, moves into a house across the street from the book’s narrator, Sarah… Read more »
Other People podcast
Brad Listi interviewed Elliott Holt for the excellent Other People podcast.
District of Literature Festival in Washington, D.C.
Reading with Richard McCann and A.X. Ahmad at the Library of Congress (Thomas Jefferson building) at 1:45 pm.