From Philadelphia to Brooklyn, authors return to the city’s cultural spaces
Penguin Random House highlights a week of bookshop and library events with Emily St. John Mandel, Natalie Baszile, Anand Giridharadas and Brandon Mull.
Between 27 and 29 October, four authors appear in four cultural venues across the United States. Emily St. John Mandel presents Exit Party in Philadelphia with the Poured Over podcast; in Atlanta, Natalie Baszile discusses Friends and Family with Tayari Jones. The following day Anand Giridharadas meets readers at Brooklyn Public Library for Man in the Mirror, while Brandon Mull completes the selection at Book Bungalow in Saint George, Utah, with Forbidden Mountain. Published by Penguin Random House on 26 October, the calendar connects independent bookshops, libraries and live conversations. More than a conventional promotional tour, it offers a small map of how books reach readers: through recognisable places, carefully chosen interlocutors and encounters that restore a public dimension to reading.