events

December 16th, 2025 @ 7pm CST: Blackouts by Justin Torres with Hot Books!

November 18th, 2025 @ 7pm CST: All Fours by Miranda July with Hot Books!

November 6-8, 2025 @ The American Society for Theater Research, Denver

October 21st, 2025 @ 7pm CST: Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman with Hot Books!

September 16th, 2025 @ 7pm CST: Intimacies: A Novel by Katie Kitamura with Hot Books!

June 2-6, 2025 @ Penn State Center for American Literary Study’s First Book Institute, State College

June 10, 2025 @ 8:00 EST: Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (2024) with “Hot Books!” on Zoom

May 13, 2025 @ 8:00 EST: Percival Everett’s James (2024) with “Hot Books!”  on Zoom

April 15, 2025 @ 8:00 EST: Han Kang’s Greek Lessons (2011/2013) with “Hot Books!” on Zoom

March 18, 2025 @ 8:00 EST: Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (2023) with “Hot Books!” on Zoom

January 27, 2025 @ UMiami English, Coral Gables

January 14, 2025 @ Yale English, New Haven

November 14-16, 2024 @ American Society for Theater Research, Seattle

August 13, 2024 @ 5:00 PST: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour (2022) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom 

July 9, 2024 @ 5:00 PST: Elizabeth Graver’s Kantika (2022) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom 

June 11, 2024 @ 5:00 PST: Hannah Lillith Assadi’s Sonora (2017) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom 

May 14, 2024 @ 5:00 PST: Liana Finck’s Let There Be Light (2022) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom 

April 16, 2024 @ 5:00 PST: Itzik Manger’s The Book of Paradise: A Jewish Comic Novel (trans. 2023) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom 

March 12, 2024 @ 5:00 PST: Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus (2022) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom 

February 25-26, 2024: @ the “Why Jewish American Literature Matters” Conference, Vanderbilt University 

February 13, 2024 @ 5:00 PST: Hannah Lillith Assadi’s The Stars Are Not Yet Bells (2022) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom 

January 23, 2024 @ 5:00 PST: James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom

January 4-7, 2024 @ the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia

December 12, 2023 @ 6:30PST: Louis-Philippe Dalembert’s Milwaukee Blues (2021), with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom

November 14, 2023 @ 6:30PST: Melissa Broder’s Milkfed (2021) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom

November 2-5, 2023: @ the American Studies Association Meeting in Montreal

October 10, 2023 @ 6:30PST: Lee Conell’s The Party Upstairs (2020) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom

September 12, 2023 @ 6:30PST: Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022) with Contemporary Jewish Fiction on Zoom 

May 25, 2023: Stanford Humanities Center, with Gabriella Safran