2024 Events
Past Events
Note: all Common Reads refer to When the Emperor Was Divine unless otherwise specified
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2023
July 3 • Rome Letteratura Festival, Rome, Italy
June 24 • Carnegie Medal Award Ceremony, Chicago, IL
May 19, 20 • Seattle Reads (Swimmers), Seattle, WA
Mar 16 • Humanities Symposium Address, Loyola University Maryland
Mar 6 • Julie Otsuka and Chantal Thomas, Albertine Books, NYC, NY
Jan 11 • Interview, Under the Volcano, Tepoztlán, Mexico (Virtual)
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2022
Nov 15 • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Oct 16 • AAPI Authors Humanizing our History: A Conversation with Julie Otsuka & Tom
Ikeda (virtual)
Oct 2 • Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Sep 28 • Les Traversées Bookstore, Paris, France
Sep 27 • Coiffard Bookstore, Nantes, France
Sep. 22-25 • Festival America, Vincennes, France
Sep 21 • Le Divan Bookstore, Paris, France
Sept 20 • Le Square Bookstore, Grenoble, France
Sep 15 • California Book Club with John Freeman and Michael Cunningham (virtual)
Sep 13 • Franklin & Marshall College, Hausman Lecture, Lancaster, PA
July 20 • Rutgers University, Summer Tales Author Talk (virtual)
Mar 30 • Club Book, Friends of the St. Paul Library (virtual)
Feb 23 • McNally Jackson Books with Katie Kitamura (virtual)
Feb 22 • PEN Out Loud/Asian American Writers Workshop/Strand Bookstore with Nicole
Chung (virtual)
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2021
Dec 14 • American School in London (virtual)
Dec 13 • City College of New York (virtual)
Nov 29 • University of Virginia (virtual)
June 9 • Reading, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, NYU, New York, NY (virtual)
Mar 20 • Las Cruces Reads, Las Cruces, NM (virtual)
2020
Oct 29 • Waukesha Reads, Waukesha, WI (virtual)
Oct 17 • Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. Common Read (virtual)
Sep 22 • Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI. Common Read (virtual)
May 19 • Highline College, Des Moines, WA. Common Read (virtual)
May 19 • Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. Common Read (virtual)
2019
Dec 10 • Stadttheater, Bremen, Germany
Dec 6 • Heinehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dec 5 • Literaturhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Dec 3 • Literaturhaus, Basel, Switzerland
Dec 1 • Orell Füssli Kramhof, Zurich, Switzerland
Oct 17 • University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL. Common Read
Apr 30 • Galesburg Reads, Galesburg, IL
Mar 27 • Colorado Academy, Denver, CO (virtual)
Feb 2 • Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Common Read (virtual)
Jan 14-25 • Theâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry, Paris, France. Certaines n’avaient jamais vu la mer (performance of ‘The Buddha in the Attic’)
2018
Oct 17 • CSU Monterey Bay, Monterey, CA. Common Read
Apr 26 • Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Mar 16 • Terre Haute Reads, Terre Haute, IN
2017
Apr 19 • Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, NJ
Apr 6 • United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Mar 30 • Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. Common Read
Feb 26 • Poughkeepsie Public Library, Poughkeepsie NY
2016
Nov 17 • Brookdale Community College, Middletown Township, NJ. Common Read
Oct 19-20 • Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN. Common Read
Oct 26 • Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT. Common Read
Sep 21 • University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Common Read.
May 5 • Arlington Reads, Arlington, VA
Apr 21 • Northwestern Connecticut Community College, Winsted, CT. Common Read
Apr 28 • Auburn Reads, Auburn, CA
2015
Oct 5 • PEN/Faulkner Gala, Washington, DC
Sep 18 • Stavanger International Festival of Literature, Stavanger, Norway
Sep 16 • International Writer’s Stage, Gothenburg, Sweden
Sep 14 • House of Culture, Stockholm Sweden
May 23 • Palo Alto Reads, Palo Alto, CA (Virtual)
Feb 19 • Japan Society, New York, NY
2014
Oct 23 • Salt Lake City Reads, Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 9 • Framingham State University, Framingham, MA. Common Read
Oct 2 • SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY. Common Read
Sep 21 • Brooklyn Literary Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Sep 17 • Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT. Common Read
Apr 24 • Green River Community College, Auburn, WA. Common Read
Mar 3 • Columbia University School of Journalism, New York, NY
2013
Nov 7-9 • Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Common Read
Oct 19 • Uptown Lit Festival, New York, NY
Oct 10 • Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Sep 25 • St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA. Common Read (The Buddha in the Attic)
Sep 11 • Wheelock College, Boston, MA. Common Read
Apr 25 • Greenwich Reads, Greenwich, CT
Apr 17 • Yeshiva University, New York, NY
Mar 28 • PEN/Faulkner Reading, Washington, DC
Mar 20 • Brandeis National Committee Author Luncheon, Boca Raton, FL
Mar 16 • 2013 • Long Beach Festival of Authors, Long Beach, CA
Mar 14 • Penn State Abington College, Abington, PA
Mar • Philadelphia Reads, Philadelphia, PA (The Buddha in the Attic)
Mar 13 • The Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Mar 13 • Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Mar 12 • Haverford Highschool, Havertown, PA
Mar 12 • Haverford Township Free Library, Havertown, PA
Mar 11 • The National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Mar 9 • Association of Asian American Yale Alumni Award, New York, NY
Feb 21 • MorseLife Foundation Literary Society, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Feb 7 • Emerson College, Boston, MA
Jan 29 • Seattle Arts & Lectures Literary Arts Series, Seattle, WA
Jan 29 • Nathan Hale High School, Seattle, WA
Jan 28 • Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA
Jan 18 • Rose State Performing Arts Theatre, Oklahoma City, OK
Jan 17 • Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA
2012
Dec 17 • 92nd Street Y with Junot Diaz, New York, NY
Nov 12 • Presenter, National Book Award 5 Under 35, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
Nov 5 • Prix Femina Award Ceremony, Paris, France
Oct 27 • Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX
Oct. 21 • Wilton Reads, Wilton, CT (The Buddha in the Attic)
Oct 17 • Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Oct 10 • Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
Oct 3 • Loudoun County Reads, Loudoun County, VA
Sep 20-23 • Festival America, Vincennes, France
Sep 10 • Yale Master’s Tea, Silliman College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Sep 2 • Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA
Aug 29 • Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Common Read
Aug 30 • Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA. Common Read (The Buddha in the Attic)
Aug 30 • Bay State College, Boston, MA. Common Read
Aug 24 • St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Saint Mary’s City, MD. Common Read
July 26 • Fordham University, New York, NY
June 5 • Festival di Massenzio, Roman Forum, Rome, Italy
May 5 • PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony, Washington, DC
May 24 • Humanities Preparatory Academy, New York, NY,
Apr 21-22 • Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, CA
Apr 20 • Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Award Ceremony, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Apr 11 • Ferguson Library Author Series, Stamford, CT
Feb 20 • Columbia University School of Journalism, New York, NY
Feb 1 • Symphony Space, On-Stage Interview with David Rakoff, New York, NY
Jan 19 • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2011
Dec 8 • Center for Fiction, New York, NY
Nov 2 • St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO. Common Read
Oct 12 • Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. Common Read
Oct 5 • Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA
Oct 4 • Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Sep 15 • Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco, CA
Sep 15 • BookShop West Portal, San Francisco, CA
Sep 23 • Seattle Public Library with Elliott Bay Bookstore, Seattle, WA
Sep 22 • Eagle Harbor Book Company, Bainbridge Island, WA
Sep 21 • Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA
Sep 20 • Village Books, Bellingham, WA
Sep 19 • Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
Sep 16 • A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland, CA
Sep 12 • Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA
July 20 • Fordham University, New York, NY
Apr 15-16 • Spokane GetLit Festival, Spokane, WA
Apr 5 • Humanities Preparatory Academy, New York, NY