On the 150th anniversary of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel of girlhood and growing up, Kate Bolick and Carmen Maria Machado share their contributions to March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women, a new essay collection celebrating the book’s enduring relevance. For more information, and tickets, click here.

Kate Bolick reads from and answers questions about Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own. Free and open to the public. More info here.

Talk at Endicott College. Free and open to the public. More info here.

Onstage interview with cultural critic Lee Siegal about his new memoir, The Draw. Info and tickets here.

Onstage interview with New Yorker writer Ariel Levy about her new memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply. Info and tickets here. 

Newburyport native Kate Bolick returns to discuss her bestselling cultural memoir, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, and how, to her surprise, her hometown -- specifically, the house she grew up in (on Court Street), the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay (on Lime Street), and the Pink House on the road to Plum Island -- came to play an enormous role in the book. 

Space is limited, so please call 978-358-8097 or stop by the Emma to sign up. 

Parallel Lives: Ever since Plutarch, some biographers have chosen to track the lives of several subjects in a single volume. In a panel moderated by Josh Kendall, authors Alex Beam, Kate Bolick, and James McGrath Morris will discuss both the narrative challenges and the unique opportunities for illumination that such biographical works offer. Register here.

SPECIAL EVENT! An onstage conversation with filmmaker/director & fellow Newburyport native Nikole Beckwith about her first feature film, STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA. The movie had its US premiere at Sundance 2015 and its European premiere at the Stockholm International Film Festival 2015. It was then sold to Lifetime cable TV and was broadcast nationally.

Starring Academy Award and Golden Globe nominees Cynthia Nixon (Sex And The City) and Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn, Atonement) and Golden Globe nominee Jason Issacs (Harry Potter, The State Within) STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA tells the story of Leia. She was abducted 17 years ago and is only now returning to her biological parents. She must confront the disparity between the world she was raised in and the world she finds herself in. Her mother Marcy is struggling with new sudden motherhood and the fear that her daughter is lost to her somehow forever. The women wrestle with understanding each other. Marcy becomes increasingly set on getting Leia back by any means necessary.

More information here. 

Kate Bolick in conversation with Silvia Nanclares, activist, journalist, and writer. 

To inaugurate the sixth edition of the Primera Persona Festival, Kate Bolick, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own (Malpaso, 2016), talks with Anna Gabriel, social educator, professor of law, and the most visible face of the CUP in the Catalan Parliament. Language: English and Catalan with simultaneous translation. More information here.

Onstage interview with cultural critic Katie Roiphe about her latest book, The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End, an exploration of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter. Information and tickets here.

Onstage interview with New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, author of the new Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth. Information and tickets here.

Beer and books! Brooke Hauser, author of Enter Helen, a new biography of Helen Gurley Brown, and I will discuss single ladies through the years, and other topics. While drinking beer. More info here.

Beer and books! Come forget the workday -- I'll talk about/read from Spinster; you drink a beer. OK, I'll drink a beer, too. 

For the Brooklyn stop on Heather Havrilesky's How to Be a Person In the World book tour, Meghan Daum, Maris Kreizman, and I will be taking questions, and taking names, at WORD Brooklyn. More info here.

MISS INDEPENDENT: Join Kate Bolick, Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies, and Marianne Schnall, co-founder of Feminist.com and author of What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?, in an "evening of debate and demystification" about the roles of women in the modern world. Free and open to the public. More information here.

There's nothing quite like going home to celebrate your book. Please join me at the 2016 Newburyport Literary Festival as I read aloud from Spinster. Free and open to the public. More info here.

Please join me at the Bank Street Theater for "Spinsters on Stage," a night of staged readings of three century-old one-act plays questioning the primacy of marriage, written by three of the women I feature in Spinster -- Neith Boyce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The works will be read aloud by an ****ALL-STAR**** cast of contemporary writers: Nikole Beckwith, Alex Gallafent, Alexandra Jacobs, Glenn Kenny, Sadie Stein, Troy Patterson, and Seth Colter Walls. Free and open to the public! Seating is limited, so be sure to arrive early. 

Come celebrate the paperback release of Spinster! I'll be discussing the book, from conception to aftermath, with Meghan Daum, editor of the New York Times bestselling anthology Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision NOT to Have Kids, and author of many books, most recently The Unspeakable. Free and open to the public. More info here.

Come eat lunch with me! Ticket info here.

Kate Bolick in conversation with Rebecca Traister. More info here.

Kate Bolick will be (wo)manning a table full of copies of SPINSTER. Buy a book, and get a complimentary set of SPINSTER paper dolls! Free and open to the public. More info here.

FILTH, FIRE & FIRST DRAFTS: Readings of new work, juvenilia, and unpredictable words from Kate Bolick, Virginia Heffernan, Michael Robbins, and Amber Tamblyn. More info here.

An illustrated talk about SPINSTER, at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. Free and open to the public. More info here.

Reading from and discussion of SPINSTER at the Sundance Mountain Resort, Tree Room Restaurant. Tickets are $85 per person, and include brunch and a signed copy of the book. Advance reservations required. More information here.

Keynote at the annual "Care More! Judge Less" luncheon to benefit Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Buy tickets here.

Onstage interview with novelist and screenwriter Richard Russo, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls and six other novels, plus the story collection The Whore's Child and the memoir Elsewhere. More information here.

Onstage interview with New York-based foreign correspondent Jenny Nordberg, a columnist for the Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and author of The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan. More information here.