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In this Green Apple Books event, literary agent Alia Hanna Habib reads from her guidebook, Take It From Me: An Agent’s Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career From Scratch (Pantheon Books, 2026), and offers advice to aspiring writers in a conversation with Maia Ipp. Habib’s book is the “Suggested Reading” pick in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Lena Moses-Schmitt reads from her debut collection, True Mistakes (University of Arkansas Press, 2025), and talks about how a constant sense of awe continuously inspires her life and poetics in this Green Apple Books event with Leigh Lucas. Moses-Schmitt is featured in “New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this Green Apple Books event, Catherine Lacey talks about the breakup that led to her writing The Möbius Book (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) and her decision to combine nonfiction and fiction into this hybrid book in a conversation with Rita Bullwinkel. “It’s a different kind of grief,” says Lacey. “It’s not just the sadness of missing someone, but it’s also the sadness of missing yourself.”
Chloé Caldwell reads from her second memoir, Trying (Graywolf Press, 2025), in this Green Apple Books event with Ariel Gore and Mia Arias Tsang in which they speak about the meaning of failure, the nuances of writing about relationships, and the process of representing queerness on the page. Caldwell’s book is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this Green Apple Books event, Irene Solà celebrates the English language release of her third novel, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness (Graywolf Press, 2025), translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem, with a reading and discussion with author Shruti Swamy. Solà’s novel is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
CD Eskilson celebrates the release of their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen (Acre Books, 2025), in this reading and conversation with poets Ashia Ajani and Preeti Vangani at Green Apple Books in San Francisco.
In this Green Apple Books event, Jemimah Wei reads from her debut novel, The Original Daughter (Doubleday, 2025), and talks about her desire to write about two ambitious girls growing up in modern Singapore in a conversation with R. O. Kwon. “What I tell people about this book is that I’ve always thought it of as a love story, but like a really unromantic love story.”
In this Green Apple Books event, Muriel Leung reads from her debut novel, How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster (Norton, 2024), and discusses the possibilities of love and care in Chinese American families and communities in a conversation with K-Ming Chang.
In this Green Apple Books event, Atlantic senior editor Jeremy Gordon reads from his debut novel, See Friendship (Harper Perennial, 2025), and talks about the decision to write a book of fiction amidst a career in journalism in a conversation with New Yorker staff writer and author Jay Caspian Kang.
“All of the stories, in some way, seem to be about characters moving away from their own points of origin or states of mind.” In this Green Apple Books event, Corinna Vallianatos reads from her story collection Origin Stories (Graywolf Press, 2025) and discusses her fascination with the interiority of characters in a conversation with Colin Winnette. For more from Vallianatos, read her installation of our Ten Questions series.
