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news & events

Events

Tuesday, June 17th | New York, NY
7:00 pm – The Strand with Julia Phillips
828 Broadway New York, NY 10003

Wednesday, June 18th | Bedford, NY
6:30 pm – Bedford Books In-person event with Kristopher Jansma
13 Court Road Bedford, NY 10506

Thursday, June 19th | Darien, CT
Time TK – Barrett Books In-person event
5 Corbin Dr, Darien, CT 06820

Sunday, June 22nd | Mount Kisco, NY
Book signing, 1:00 pm – Barnes and Noble
55-59 S. Moger Ave, Mount Kisco, NY 10549

Monday, June 23rd | Chappaqua, NY
7:00 pm – Chappaqua Library
195 S Greeley Ave, Chappaqua, NY 10514

Tuesday, June 24th | South Hadley, MA
7:00 pm – The Odyssey Bookshop In-person event
9 College St. South Hadley, MA 01075

Wednesday, June 25th | Belmont, MA
7:00 pm – Belmont Books In-person event
79 Leonard Street Belmont, MA 02478

Thursday, June 26th | Cambridge, MA
7:00 pm – Harvard Book Store, with Rebecca Donner
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

July 3 | Prague
Time TK – Shakespeare and Sons

July 5 | Berlin
Time TK – Curious Fox Books

July 8 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
4pm – American Book Center

Wednesday July 9, The Book Corner | Halifax, UK

Thursday, July 10 | London
6:30pm – Daunt Books (Notting Hill) with Bea Setton

Friday, July 11th-Friday, July 18th | West Cork, Ireland
West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry, Ireland

Saturday, July 26th | Falmouth, MA
4:00 pm – Falmouth Public Library
300 Main St, Falmouth, MA 02540

August 16, 2pm | Martha’s Vineyard
Edgartown Books, Edgartown

Friday, October 17th-Sunday, October 19th | Brattleboro, VT
Brattleboro Literary Festival

News

Publishers Weekly Feature:



Publishers Weekly: The Scrapbook gets starred review in Publishers Weekly

The Millions: The Scrapbook made The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Books list

Red Comet was just named one of the Best Books of the 21st century by Kirkus

The Leon Levy Center for Biography presents: Adam Plunkett & Heather Clark on Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

The Bookseller: Jonathan Cape signs Pulitzer Prize finalist Heather Clark’s debut novel in exclusive submission

Brooklyn Institute & Strand Present: Samantha Rose Hill + Heather Clark – What Remains

NYPL: Meet the 2024–2025 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

Guggenheim Fellow: Heather Clark

The Atlantic: This Week in Books: Sylvia Plath Continues to Fascinate

New Yorker: What We’re Reading This Summer

Esquire: The 50 Best Biographies of All Time

Iowa Writers’ Workshop: The 2022 Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism

New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2021

New York Times: Announcing the 10 Best Books of 2021: A New York Times Event

NPR Great Podversations: Heather Clark and Daphne Merkin

Slate: “Don’t Fall Into the Plath Trap”

BBC Interview: Rewriting the story of the poet who took her own life

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‘GMA’ Book Club: Glennon Doyle shares her 2020 book picks to gift for the holidays

BBC Radio 3: “Free Thinking”

Bookpage: Fall’s biggest biographies

Washington Post: 10 books to read in October

Christian Science Monitor: Make an October date with Eleanor Roosevelt, Cary Grant, Sylvia Plath

New York Times: 17 New Books to Watch For in October

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Top books to look forward to this autumn

St Louis Post-Dispatch: Fall book preview: Authors deliver the goods with onslaught of political, fictional titles

Entertainment Weekly: The best books of fall 2020

USA Today: 20 new books to read this fall, from Mariah Carey, Jonathan Lethem, Megan Rapinoe, more

The Lit Hub 2020 Fall Preview

The Boston Globe: 20 Books We’re Excited for This Fall

Wall Street Journal: Martin Amis, Mariah Carey, Dolly Parton Prepare to Tell Their Stories

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