Fall Dates

(But also a note from Zadie!)

“Fall, 2022” from my book of drawings and diary entries, The Green Book, which will be out in November this year.

Here are a few Fall dates for my appearances that I want to share with everyone:

Sept 13, 2024, Tivoli…………Talk titled “Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene,” A Public Space Weekend Retreat

Sept 21,2024, Seattle………..In conversation with Alka Kurian about My Beloved Life, JLF Seattle

Sept 29, 2024, Brooklyn……….Noon panel on “Writing Our Histories,” Brooklyn Book Festival

Oct 5, 2024, Saratoga……….In conversation with Aatish Taseer about My Beloved Life, Saratoga Book Festival

Oct 18-20, Brattleboro……….Reading from My Beloved Life, details to come, Brattleboro Literary Festival

Nov 14, New York City……….In conversation with Caroline Coleman at the Colony Club about My Beloved Life, Colony Club

Dec 27-29, Wayanad, Kerala……….Presenting The Green Book, Wayanad Literature Festival

I want to tell you a little bit about The Green Book, the final book in the trilogy that includes The Blue Book and The Yellow Book. This was the book that I worked on while I was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. It will be published by HarperCollins India in November. The chapters include the following: “Trees”; “On Notebooks”; “Postcards from the Ganga”; “Many Words for Heat, Many Words for Hate”; “The Green Album”; “The Nature of War”; “Rules of Writing”; “Writing a Novel with Pictures”; “Green: An Unripe Time”; “Saffron and Green”; “All That Breathes”; “Prison Green”; “Nature Writing”; “Don’t Stop Walking"; “That was January, This is June.” (My friends at Brick magazine are publishing my drawings and diary entries from “Postcards from the Ganga” in their next issue.)

To whip up interest in The Green Book (and in the trilogy) as a whole here is a snippet from my journals that appears on p. 222 of the forthcoming book—an exchange with the queen of the universe, Zadie Smith:

October, 2022. From The Green Book. On a page with Maya Angelou’s poetry, The Bookshop Inc. annual calendar.