September 13: WATCH NOW Montclair Literary Festival in conversation with J.September 10: WATCH NOW Parnassus Books with Ann Patchett, 6:00 PM CST/ 7:00 PM EST.September 9: WATCH NOW Skylark Bookshop in conversation with Alex George, 7:00 PM CST / 8:00 PM EST.September 7: Adventures by the Book in conversation with Heather Morris, 8:00 PM EST.September 4: Malaprops in conversation with Wiley Cash, 7:00 PM EST.September 3: An Unlikely Story in conversation with Alice Hoffman, 7:00 PM EST.September 2: Warwick’s in conversation with Kristin Hannah, 7:00 PM EST.September 1: Barnes & Noble in conversation with John Grisham, 7:00 PM EST.August 31: WATCH NOW Atlanta History Center in conversation with Paula McLain, 7:00 PM EST.August 30: Reading with Robin in conversation with Jean Kwok, 7:00 PM EST.August 27: The Vero Beach Book Center in conversation with Jodi Picoult, 7:00 PM EST.August 26: Midtown Scholar in conversation with Claire Messud, 7:00 PM EST.August 25: Center for Fiction in conversation with Amor Towles, 7:30 PM EST.

August 23: Left Bank Books in conversation with Lily King, 7:00 PM EST.

October 11: Christina in virtual conversation with Allison Gilbert about her new book, Listen, World! hosted by Books & Books, 7:00 PM EST.

I was proud of my little shelf of self-published books. Christina Baker Kline is a 1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction, women’s fiction and contemporary fiction novels, most notably The Exiles (2020), Orphan Train (2013) and A Piece of the World (2017). I honestly don’t remember what the books were about, only that even at the age of five I thought of myself as an author. Sometimes - like my favorite picture books about a hedgehog named Frances who had complex feelings and an annoying younger sister, not unlike my own - I wrote stories in a series. I was writer, publisher, editor, and designer I created the covers, came up with titles, and drew colorful and elaborate illustrations. I don’t recall whether she instructed me to write stories that would fill the entire book or whether it was my own obsessive-compulsive decision, but I planned them carefully so that each story would end on the final page (with “THE END” in block letters for emphasis).

CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE: As soon as I was old enough to spell phonetically (at around the age of five, as I recall), my mother started making blank books for me to write in: sheets of typing paper between cardboard covers, hole-punched down one side and held together with string.

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