Event Archive

An archive of previous and past events.

Launch Event for “Seven Surrenders”

57th Street Books, Hyde Park, Chicago — 6:00 PM

A public launch celebration for “Seven Surrenders” featuring a dialog between myself and the excellent scholar/critic David M. Perry, hosted at 57th Street Books in Hyde Park, here in Chicago.

7 Mar
2017

Neighborhoods of the World Italian Festival

Navy Pier, Chicago — 12:00 to 2 PM

I will do a hands-on presentation on the history of printing at the Italy festival on Chicago’s Navy Pier, featuring real examples of antique books and manuscripts that you can touch […]

5 Mar
2017

Boskone 2017

Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston

Boskone 2017 in Boston, including a half-hour “Sassafrass: Trickster & King” concert with Lauren Schiller, and panels including “Why Libraries are (Still) Important,” “Poetry and Performance,” “Words Have More Than […]

17 Feb
2017

Pandemonium Books Tor Author Event

Pandemonium Books, 4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA 02139 — 6 PM

Massive multi-author Tor event at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge MA, featuring myself, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, Max Gladstone, Charlie Stross, Fran Wilde, and Jo Walton. We’re going to play a group […]

16 Feb
2017

MidAmericon (Worldcon 2015)

Bartle Hall, Kansas City, MO

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17 Aug
2016

Gencon Writer’s Symposium

Indianapolis

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4 Aug
2016

Reading and Conversation with Jo Walton and Ada Palmer

Powell's Books (Portland) —

Part of Jo Walton’s book tour for the release of My Real Children, featuring a reading by Jo, a conversation about the book between Jo and Ada, and music by Ada. See […]

17 Aug
2015

Jo Walton Reading with Singing

Seminary Co-op Bookstore (Chicago) —

A reading from Jo Walton’s Thessaly series, with singing by Ada Palmer. See details.

16 Mar
2015

"Warm, generous, and inviting," Inventing the Renaissance provides a witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the supposed Dark Ages and golden Renaissance, and exposes the terrible yet often tender reality beneath.