Notable Online: 4/12–4/18

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Monday 4/13: C Pam Zhang talks with Alice Sola Kim about How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Tariq Shah and Lee Clay Johnson discuss Whiteout Conditions. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Mark Doty presents What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Jaquira Díaz, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Erin Khar, and Natalie Lima join host Lilly Dancyger for the Memoir Monday reading series. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Tuesday 4/14: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Megan Giddings, and Megha Majumdar join the Antibody reading series with host Brian Gresko. Zoom and YouTube, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Santee Frazier joins the Readings by Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. PDT, free with RSVP.

Andrew Altschul talks with Darcie Dennigan about The Gringa. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Scott Charles joins the Cobalt Poetry series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Emily Gould talks with Naomi Fry about Perfect Tunes. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m., free.

Paul Lisicky presents Later: My Life at the Edge of World with Andrea Lawlor. Center for Fiction via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, $10 suggested, RSVP.

Wednesday 4/15: Katy Simpson Smith discusses The Everlasting with Rivka Galchen. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free with RSVP.

Marie Mutsuki Mockett presents American Harvest with Marlon James and Juston Wolgemuth. Center for Fiction via Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, $10 suggested, RSVP.

Thursday 4/16: Rebecca Solnit joins the Readings by Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m., PDT, free with RSVP.

JP Brammer, Krutika Mallikarjuna, Leah Johnson, and moderator Matt Ortile discuss Qmmunity in Publishing: redefining the publishing landscape. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Ann Lewinson presents Still Life with Meredith with Rachel Cline. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m., EDT, free with RSVP.

Liz Prato discusses Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege: Essays on Hawai’i. Annie Bloom’s Books via Livestream, 7 p.m. PDT, free.

Kate Burke presents Urban Playground: What Kids Say about Living in San Francisco. The Bindery via Facebook Life, 6 p.m. PDT, free.

Joyce Carol Oates and Jonathan Santlofer celebrate the 20th anniversary of Blonde. Center for Fiction via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, $10 suggested, RSVP.

Chelsea Bieker talks with T Kira Madden and Rumpus editor-in-chief Marisa Siegel about her debut novel, Godshot. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Friday 4/17: Steve Silberman, Kate Edgar, and Temple Grandin remember Oliver Sacks. CityArts via YouTube, 7:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Andrés Barba presents A Luminous Republic with Álvaro Enrigue. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

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Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com. More from this author →