I’m winding down my speaking events for 2023 — because my next book isn’t going to report and write itself, alas. You can also follow me on Twitter @papergirlmacy. For more information or to request an interview or a reading, please contact Lena Little at Lena.Little@hbgusa.com. To request a lecture, please contact Tom Neilssen at Tom@Brightsightgroup.com.
7/6: paperback release event at my hometown store, Book No Further, 6:30 p.m., Roanoke, Va.
7/12: Community Forum on Addiction, featuring some of the stone rollers in the book, Morganton, N.C., 6 p.m.
7/18: Addiction in the New River Valley Summit, 10:30 a.m., Dublin, Va.
7/20: Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute speaker series
8/23: Rural Education Summit, Virginia Tech Center for Rural Education, Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, Va., 7 p.m.
8/24: 50th anniversary of WVTF, in conversation with NPR host Mary Louise Kelly, Roanoke, Va.
9/13: Mount Airy Public Library, evening talk, Mount Airy, N.C.
9/24: Vivian Howard’s Book Club, in conversation about storytelling with the chef (and fellow author) at her stellar restaurant, Lenoir, Charleston, S.C.
10/13-14: Keynote address at the Mayborn nonfiction narrative writing conference, Dallas, TX.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
—Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
