Thurs., April 8, 7pmBooks & Books
Miami Beach
927 Lincoln rd.Miami Beach, FL

Weds., April 14, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
National Library Week Celebration:
MJ Taylor Lounge, Room 4207
North Campus Miami Dade College 11380 NW 27th Avenue

Miami, Florida 33167
(305) 237-1000
Sat., April 17, time 2:15-3:05
In Room: Cypress A
Morgridge International Reading Center
University of Central Florida Book Festival
Orlando, Florida

Tuesday April 20 2:30 p.m.
WLRN Radio Interview

Fri., April 23, time: tba
Institute of African American Affairs
New York University
41 E. 11th St. 7th Floor
NEW YORK, NY
Preston L. Allen appears alongside Bernice McFadden at the Black Renaissance Noire launch program

Thurs., April 29, 7-8:30 pm
PEN World Voices Festival
Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St
NEW YORK, NY
“An Around the World Reading” featuring Preston L. Allen, Javier Cercas, Siri Hustvedt, Karl O. Knausgaard, Anne Landsman, Monique Proulx, Lee Stringer, Christos Tsiolkas and Tommy Wieringa. Grab your passport and come on an around the world trip with Festival airlines. We’ll be making numerous stops in Europe, then head to Australia, Quebec, and South Africa before we land back in the U.S. Please fasten your seatbelts, sit back and relax, even grab a delicious Joe’s Pub cocktail, while you enjoy a very special evening of fiction and non-fiction redings by award-winning writers from here and abroad. Tickets $15/$10 PEN & ACLU members. joespub.com or 212-967-7555. purchase tickets for both events this evening for $20/$15 PEN Members. Cosponsored by Joe’s Pub

Fri., April 30, 1-2:30pm
PEN World Voices Festival
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave.
NEW YORK, NY
“Short Stories: past, Present and Future” featuring Preston L. Allen, Alex Epstein, Aleksandar Hemon, Yiyun Li, and Martin Solares. What virtues and challenges are unique to the short story, as opposed to the novel, the essay, or the poem? What is the relationship between “flash fiction” and the traditional short story? how flexible is the form? and why is it that, even now–after Poe, Chekov, Hemingway, O’Connor, Nabokov, and Munro–the short story often gets less respect, in terms of prizes and critical esteem, than the novel? Join acclaimed practitioners of he form from Bosnia, Israel, China, Mexico, and the United States, for a conversation about the past, present, and future of the short story with the new Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Free and open to the public. No reservations

Sat., may 15, 4pm
Brooklyn Public LibraryCentral Branch
at Grand Army Plaza
BROOKLYN, NY
Preston L. Allen appears in conversation with Leonard Lopate (wnyc) as part of the “Cosmopolis: Immigrant Writers in new York City” series.