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Anand Giridharadas's avatar

I’m so happy I’m going to meet many of you at one of the current tour stops. I hear all of you about the places I’m not yet coming. But two things: One, this is just a starter list, and the list grows with time. But second: If you want me to come to your city, get a great local bookstore or other institution to invite me! Unfortunately, I can’t just show up and start declaiming in the town square. Someone generally has to host you. So if I’m not coming to the South right now, for example, or Philly, or wherever, it’s not because of me; it’s because we don’t have a host yet, and publishers have very limited budgets these days to send you places! I would be more than thrilled to make these other places happen if you all have bookstores or other venues you love that would love to host.

Andy Pitz's avatar

Please come to Philly!!

Wendy Schweiger's avatar

The Free Library of Philadelphia would be perfect!

Wendy Schweiger's avatar

Or Midtown Scholar in Harrisburg!

Liz Figenshu's avatar

I’ll be there! Can’t wait to meet in person. Look for me in the front row in NYC!

Shosh's avatar

I want to meet you, too. Come to Denver!

Donna Coufal's avatar

Omg! You forgot to schedule Pittsburgh!!

Margaret MacDonald's avatar

Hope you make it to Toronto!

Amrita's avatar

Please come to LA!

Karen Hering's avatar

What? No readings in Minneapolis/St Paul?

Donna A's avatar

Ann Arbor is calling you back here.

Naomi Azulay's avatar

Got my 92Y streaming ticket last month.

Looking forward to it!

Cathy Horowitz's avatar

Omg… Jaipur… the best and what an honor that you so deserve. I will watch you from San Francisco. Be well my friend!!♥️♥️

Cathy Horowitz's avatar

I don’t know if you have even been to the festival but it beyond expectations and I didn’t want to ever leave. Travel safe.❤️

Madeleine's avatar

As a fellow Ohioan, how about a stop in Ohio!? Yellow Springs, OH would love to have you!

Deborah Stacey's avatar

Please come to Vancouver, Canada!

Anand Giridharadas's avatar

I’ll go anywhere! It’s just a matter of which bookstores or other venues actually invite you

Marilyn G's avatar

What about coming to Paris - at the American Library or Shakespeare and Co?

Marilyn G's avatar

If you’d send me some info I could share it with both the American Library and Shakespeare & Co. I’m just myself though - don’t have money to fund such an adventure. I’m very involved (and have been for years) with helping to Get Out the Vote in the Paris area. I live just 25 minutes west of Paris.

Anne Fabiny's avatar

Hi, Anand. I will be in Cambridge, MA to see and hear you. As well as listening when you talk to Tina Brown at the 92nd St Y. Big fan girl ever since "Winner Takes All". I really hope I get to meet you and chat for a minute.

In the meantime I have a question about abandonment: feeling abandoned includes the notion that one felt held or attended to or safe in some way at some point in the past. That feeling of safety is gone; that's what abandonment is, to my mind. Is that what you mean when you use the word? If so, who or what was causing us to feel safe or protected such that now we feel abandoned?

Anne

Cathy Horowitz's avatar

Good morning. I have no idea what your Bay Area tour looks like but we have a fabulous book store in Corte Madera just north of SF. It’s called Book Passages and the owners Bill and Elaine Petrocelli would be welcoming hosts. Just an idea. Isabel Allende is a good friend and is bring her new book to a gathering next week. Stay healthy and safe. Cathy Horowitz