I’m excited to visit the Town Hall library to discuss my latest novel, When in Rome.

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Please join me for an in-person conversation with the wonderful Margot Livesey about her new novel, The Road from Belhaven.

Book purchase link: https://www.boswellbooks.com/book/9780593537046 

 Registration link: margotliveseymke.eventbrite.com 

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I’m honored to co-host a discussion with the wildly talented Jane Delury about her stunning new novel Hedge. Please join us for this virtual event.

Book purchase link: https://www.boswellbooks.com/book/9781958506042 and https://www.booksco.com/book/9781958506042 

Attendee registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YMoVV4kdRbysFyeTw_mUUA

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Please join me for this special event for the Friends of Door County Libraries, co-sponsored by Write On, Door County.

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I’ll be reading at the lovely lake country bookstore, Books & Co.

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I’m honored to be part of a panel with Susan Patterson, Holly Goldberg Sloan, and Annette Chavez Macias called “Coming Into Her Own”: “Heartfelt, transformational, shattering, and full of hope, these novels show the strength and passion of women finding a way to live again, discovering new layers to themselves and their mothers, and reveling in their capacity for survival and their ache for connection.”

I’m delighted to visit Reads by the River, in collaboration with Waterford Stillhouse, as part of their cocktails and conversation series. Good thing the book club kit has drink recipes…

I’ll be reading at my old ‘hometown’ bookstore, Politics & Prose, and enjoy a discussion with the most excellent Abby Maslin, author of LOVE YOU HARD (https://www.abbymaslin.com/)

Come see me in this wonderful new Boston bookstore! Register here.

Details TBD.

Join us at Liam’s ‘home’ bookstore, Boswell Books, for the launch of When in Rome! Registration is required to attend this event, so please click here and reserve your space.

I’ll join the marvelous authors Cara Black, Mamta Chaudhry, and Alex George for an “adventurous” discussion of our Paris-themed novels as part of the long-running Adventure by the Book reading series. For more information, visit their website.

I’m honored to moderate a discussion with the marvelous Margot Livesey in celebration of her beautiful new book. Write-up from host Boswell Books below. (Note, this is a ticketed event — get yours now!)

“Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street and The Flight of Gemma Hardy chats about her a poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime. Livesey will be in conversation with Callanan, author of Paris by the Book.

“This virtual event will be broadcast via Zoom, and registration is required – so click this link to register today! Purchase your copy of The Boy in the Field for 20% off list price from Boswell.

“Livesey's latest novel has earned starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, and Tessa Hadley, author of The London Train, who says, “Written in elegant, spare prose, this story flies swiftly forward from the transfixing opening pages. A charming, complicated family dynamic, a twist of eerie magic.” And Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had, adds, "I loved every single sentence of The Boy in the Field. This novel is so intricately woven, its world so vibrantly built, its characters so beautifully and empathically wrought. To experience the world as rendered by Margot Livesey is a singular, extraordinary delight."

“One September afternoon in 1999, three teenagers are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy’s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Written with the deceptive simplicity and power of a fable, The Boy in the Field showcases Margot Livesey’s unmatched ability to, as Lily King, author of Euphoria, says “tell her tale masterfully, with intelligence, tenderness, and a shrewd understanding of all our mercurial human impulses.”

“Margot Livesey is author of eight novels, including Mercury, Eva Moves the Furniture, and The Missing World. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vogue, and The Atlantic, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Livesey is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.”

Sadly, this event has been canceled. >> (I was to have been on a France-themed panel at the 2020 Bay Area Book Festival with the très excellent Cara Black, Scott Carpenter and Mamta Chaudry. Photo courtesy of the festival website.)

POSTPONED. New date TBD. I’ll be reading in Mineral Point, Wisconsin as part of a residency at Shake Rag Alley connected to the Council of Wisconsin Writers’ Edna Ferber Prize.

As part of UWM’s United We Read series, I’ll be reading with some extremely talented graduate students in our creative writing program, including Su Cho, Anthony Correale, and Lauren Maddox, at a very wonderful bookstore, Boswell Books.

I’ll be reading with these three incredible writers as part of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers 2020 Winter residency public reading series.

I’m excited to read with Angie Kim and Lara Prescott. Here’s the writeup from the Book Fair program: “Liam Callanan’s novel Paris by the Book tells the story of a missing person, a grieving family, and a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Angie Kim’s novel Miracle Creek takes place in small-town Virginia, where a group of people utilize a hyperbaric chamber to try to cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. In her debut novel, The Secrets We Kept, Lara Prescott weaves the thrilling tale of two secretaries turned spies and the literary love story of Doctor Zhivago.”

I’ll be reading at ISU as part of its Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series. The reading will take place at 6:30 pm on Thursday, November 14th in the University Art Gallery.

I’m honored to moderate a panel with three outstanding authors:

• Andrea Rothman https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-131972/andrea-rothman-1/

• Andrea Bartz https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/572904/the-lost-night-by-andrea-bartz/9780525574712/

• Miciah Bay Gault    https://www.miciahbaygault.com/

We kick off at near-dawn (9am), but the early bird gets the book(s)…

I’m honored to be moderating a discussion with Tim O’Brien, who, as host Boswell Books explains, is the “National Book Award-winning author of The Things They Carried, [here in Milwaukee to share] his first book in more than two decades, a collection of wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.

“Tickets cost $29, and include admission, a signed copy of Dad’s Maybe Book, and all tax and fees, available at timobrienmke.bpt.me. There’s also an early bird special, where you can get the ticket for $24, still including all taxes and fees, if you purchase it by August 31.

“In 2003, already an older father, O’Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him - a few scraps of paper signed “Love, Dad.” Maybe a word of advice and some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.

“O’Brien traverses the great variety of human experience and emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father’s soul-saving love for his sons. The result is Dad’s Maybe Book, a funny, tender, wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the reader’s heart with joy and recognition.

“Tim O’Brien received the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing in 2013.”