2007

Monday 24 September
Official publication day for Apollo's Fire.

Tuesday 25 September / 7:00 p.m. / Pittsburgh
Reading at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Pittsburgh, PA; South Side Works at 2705 East Carson Street. Call 412.381.3600 or visit www.JosephBeth.com.

Thursday 11 October / 8:45 a.m., 2:00 p.m. EDT / Tennessee
WMOT Jazz 89.5 public radio near Nashville will air an interview about Apollo's Fire and the Southern Festival of Books. Thereafter it will be available in their archives, at www.wmot.org.

Saturday 13 October / 2:00 p.m. / Nashville
Reading at Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN; Room 16 of Legislative Plaza downtown. Visit www.HumanitiesTennessee.org.

Monday 15 October / 7:00 p.m. / Raleigh
Reading at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC; 3522 Wade Avenue. call 919.828.1588 or visit QuailRidgeBooks.booksense.com.

Tuesday 23 October / 7:00 p.m. / Greensburg, PA
Reading at Barnes & Noble Books in Greensburg, PA; 5155 Rte 30. Call 724.832.0622.

Wednesday 7 November / 7:30 p.m. / Chicago
Reading at a nonfiction evening in Chicago, IL, hosted by Bookslut.com, at The Hopleaf Bar at 5148 N. Clark Street in Andersonville (Argyle or Berwyn Redline El stops, Clark or Damen bus); book sales by The Book Cellar.

Read the generous Bookslut review of Apollo's Fire.

Friday 16 November / time TBA / Philadelphia
Lecture and reading at Neumann College in Philadelphia to faculty, students, and visitors.

Date & Time TBA / Public Radio
Interview on Dick Gordon's popular program "The Story," on North Carolina Public Radio (syndicated nationally). about Apollo's Fire. Thereafter it will be available in their archives, at wunc.org/front-page.

STAY TUNED for details about upcoming events in Columbus, OH; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia, PA; and elsewhere.

2008

Sunday 10 February / 1:00 p.m. / Greensburg, PA
A nonfiction reading with Pulitzer-winning historian Edward J. Larson, author most recently of the new book A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign, and Pulitzer-winning science writer Deborah Blum (former president of the National Association of Science Writers), author most recently of Ghost Hunters: Williams James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death, at the Greensburg and Hempfield Area Library in Greensburg, PA.

Friday 28 March / 2:00 p.m. / Charlottesville, VA
"Science Writing: Life Cycles," a panel at the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, VA, with the wonderful science and nature writer Jennifer Ackerman, author most recently of Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body, and Susan Freinkel, author of American Chestnut: Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree. Moderator: Susan Tyler Hitchcock, author most recently of Frankenstein: A Cultural History. Michael will be discussing Apollo's Fire; go here for a festival interview with him.

Friday 28 March / 4:00 p.m. / Charlottesville, VA
"Living on the Edge: Cons and Characters," a panel at the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, VA, with Nicholas Griffin, author most recently of Dizzy City, and Dallas Hudgens, author most recently of Season of Gene. Moderator: Jenny Gardiner. Michael will be discussing Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief.

Sunday 25 May / 2:00 p.m. / San Mateo, CA
"The Musical Sound of Breaking the Law," a reading and discussion of Michael's recent Penguin collection of Edwardian-era French crime classics, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, at M Is for Mystery, the renowned bookstore at 86 East Third Avenue in San Mateo. Phone 650-401-8077. (Gathering the best Lupin stories and writing the critical introduction to this book inspired Michael to edit his upcoming third collection from Penguin, the first-ever anthology of stories about the great thieves of the Gaslight era—not the detective stories, not tales of bloody murder, but the great witty caper stories.)

Tuesday 3 June / 7:00 p.m. / Crossville, TN
"You Are Here: Where Hometown Fits on a Map of the Universe," a talk to the Friends of the Art Circle Public Library in Crossville, Tennessee, at their annual banquet. Although Michael has given talks from Philadelphia to Minnesota to Germany, this is his first public appearance in his home town. Details and tickets available by calling the Art Circle Public Library at 931-484-6790.

Thursday 26 June / 6:30 p.m. / Pittsburgh
"The Philosophy Behind the Art and Science of Exploration," a panel discussion at the Carnegie Museum of Art, in association with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, in the CMA Theater. Michael will be sharing the stage with NASA scientist Claudia J. Alexander, Project Manager of the U.S. Rosetta Project, to discuss the ways that space exploration changes our perception of our own world, as well as the interplay between scientific discovery and artistic creation. This dialogue is associated with the 55th Carnegie International exhibition, "Life on Mars." The event is free with museum admission. The museum is located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in Oakland; for more information call 412-622-3131. (Michael has been invited to participate in other Carnegie International sessions, details of which will be posted soon.)

21 – 26 September / details TBA / Fairfax, VA
Michael will be a featured author at the Fall for the Book festival in Fairfax, Virginia, on the George Mason University campus near Washington DC. The festival features authors such as Chinua Achebe, Sue Miller, and C. K. Williams.

10 – 12 October / times TBA / Nashville, TN
The Southern Festival of Books. Details TBA.