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Meredith Hall in conversation with Lily Brooks-Dalton

Thursday, September 2 | 7:00 p.m. (MT)

Hosted ONLINE by Weller Book Works in Salt Lake City, Utah 

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback) with author Lily Brooks-Dalton.

The Wall Street Journal writes “As organically as it traveled to heartbreak, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm,’ not an island beyond it.”

Lily Brooks-Dalton is an American writer born and raised in southern Vermont. Her first novel, Good Morning, Midnight, was published by Random House, and has been translated into half a dozen languages, with a film adaptation as The Midnight Sky in December 2020 starring and directed by George Clooney.

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Launch: The Isolation Artist by Bob Keyes

Tuesday, September 7 | 6:00 p.m. (ET)

IN-PERSON event outdoors at Congress Square Park (at the corner of Congress Street and High Street in Portland, Maine)

Join Longfellow Books for the launch of The Isolation Artist: Scandal, Deception, and the Last Days of Robert Indiana by Bob Keyes who will be joined in conversation by Monica Wood.

“The Isolation Artist is a richly-reported tale of artistic genius undone by extravagance, greed, and age. Bob Keyes has delivered a singular book, revealing all the players and palace intrigue surrounding the life—and controversial death—of American icon Robert Indiana. I’ve been a fan of Keyes’ work for years, and this feels like a book he was born to write, cracking the hard exteriors of the New York City art world and a remote Maine island for the complicated truth within.”—Michael Paterniti, author of Love and Other Ways of Dying

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Meredith Hall in conversation with Christina Baker Kline

Saturday, September 8 | 4:00 p.m. (PT)

Hosted ONLINE by Warwick’s

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback).

The Wall Street Journal writes “As organically as it traveled to heartbreak, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm,’ not an island beyond it.”

Christina Baker Kline’s latest novel, The Exiles—which recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective—has just been released in paperback.

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Meredith Hall

Thursday, September 9 | 7:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted ONLINE by Penguin Bookstore

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback).

Publishers Weekly writes, “Powerful…Hall’s meticulous prose convincingly captures the daily realities—sometimes beautiful, sometimes cruel—of agricultural life, and offers insight into the ways calamity fractures family bonds…readers will be rewarded.”

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Bob Keyes live interview with Portland Press Herald

Thursday, Sept. 9 | 7:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted ONLINE (for Portland Press Herald subscribers) by Newsroom Live, Portland Press Herald, with editor Katherine Lee

“Engrossing. This hard-hitting exposé of the contemporary art world and one of its controversial figures deserves a wide audience.”—Publishers Weekly

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Meredith Hall

POSTPONED: Friday, September 10 | 6:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted ONLINE by Toadstool Bookstore

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback).

The Wall Street Journal writes “As organically as it traveled to heartbreak, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm,’ not an island beyond it.”

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Meredith Hall

Monday, September 13 | 7:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted ONLINE by Edgartown Library with Edgartown Books

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback).

Publishers Weekly writes, “Powerful…Hall’s meticulous prose convincingly captures the daily realities—sometimes beautiful, sometimes cruel—of agricultural life, and offers insight into the ways calamity fractures family bonds…readers will be rewarded.”

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Bob Keyes In Person

Tuesday, September 21 | 6:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted IN-PERSON by Berwick Public Library in Berwick, Maine

Welcome Berwick-resident Bob Keyes to celebrate his debut book, The Isolation Artist:
Scandal, Deception, and the Last Days of Robert Indiana.

“In this disturbing account of the murky final years of a famous, self-sabotaging artist, Bob Keyes teases out the competing motivations and frequent skullduggery of a jaw-dropping cast of opportunists, takers, frauds, and hangers-on. It reads like a spy novel; I was riveted.”—Monica Wood, author of The One-in-a-Million Boy

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Meredith Hall and Simon Van Booy in conversation

Wednesday, September 22 | 7:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted ONLINE by Porter Square Books

Meredith Hall and Simon Van Booy discuss their latest novels Beneficence (new in paperback) and Night Came With Many Stars (hardcover).

The Wall Street Journal writes of Beneficence, “As organically as it traveled to heartbreak, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm,’ not an island beyond it.”

New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline says of Van Booy’s latest, “Beautiful as an old bruise, plain-spoken as a prayer, Night Came with Many Stars rings hard and true with the poetry of real life. Van Booy knows that love and heartache go hand-in-hand—and that cold hard reality is no match for the dreams and longings each of us carry inside.”

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Meredith Hall in conversation with Dani Shapiro

Monday, September 27 | 7:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted ONLINE by RJ Julia in Madison, CT

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback).

Publishers Weekly writes, “Powerful…Hall’s meticulous prose convincingly captures the daily realities—sometimes beautiful, sometimes cruel—of agricultural life, and offers insight into the ways calamity fractures family bonds…readers will be rewarded.”

Dani Shapiro is the author of the instant New York Times best-selling memoir, Inheritance, which was published in January 2019 by Knopf. Her other books include the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History.

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Belinda Rathbone – In Person

Tuesday, September 28 | 12:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted IN-PERSON by Boston Athenaeum

Join Belinda Rathbone for a lively in-person talk about George Rickey: A Life in Balance, her new biography about one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century.

The Santa Barbara Independent writes of George Rickey, “Rathbone’s marvelously readable biography succeeds in bringing the Rickeys and the world in which they lived into timely focus. Meticulously researched yet free of academic jargon, the book offers 21st-century readers a rare glimpse into a moment and a movement that’s overdue for fuller understanding and appreciation. ”

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Meredith Hall in conversation with Roxana Robinson

Thursday, September 30 | 5:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted ONLINE by the The Bookloft in Great Barrington, MA

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback) with author Roxana Robinson.

Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books–six novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices.

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Belinda Rathbone – NYC Book Launch

Thursday, September 30 | 6:30 p.m. (ET)

Hosted IN-PERSON by Kasmin Gallery

Join Belinda Rathbone for the launch and a book signing of George Rickey: A Life in Balance, her new biography about one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century.

The Santa Barbara Independent writes of George Rickey, “Rathbone’s marvelously readable biography succeeds in bringing the Rickeys and the world in which they lived into timely focus. Meticulously researched yet free of academic jargon, the book offers 21st-century readers a rare glimpse into a moment and a movement that’s overdue for fuller understanding and appreciation.”

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