2026
March 5, 2026
Attack of the Book People IV (AWP 2026)
Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater Studio — Baltimore, MD
AWP 2026 offsite reading hosted by Kurt Baumeister and Leland Cheuk on behalf of 7.13 Books. Readers: Cynthia Weiner, Erika Swyler, Amber Sparks, Hugh Sheehy, William Lessard, Tobias Carroll, Alex Behr, DW Ardern, Jennifer Sears, and Farooq Ahmed.
January 10, 2026
Philadelphia Writers Circle
Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar — South Philadelphia, PA
Reading from Twilight of the Gods.
2025
November 25, 2025
The Chills at Will Podcast, Episode 311
Online — with Pete Riehl
“Skilled Worldbuilder, Craftsman of the Subtle and Resonant, and Curious Student of History” — discussion of Twilight of the Gods.
July 12, 2025
Textual Healing with Mallory Smart
Online — Podcast
June 25, 2025
Drinks with Tony, Episode 320
Online — with Tony DuShane — Podcast
June 12, 2025
Beyond the Zero
Online — Podcast
June 6, 2025
Teaching Learning Leading K–12, Episode 763
Online — with Steven Miletto — Podcast
May 29, 2025
Water Street Bookstore — Exeter, NH
Twilight of the Gods, in conversation with Tim Horvath.
May 28, 2025
Rabbit Hole of Research, Episode 36
Online — with Jotham Austin II PhD, Nick Elizalde & Georgia Geis
“Loki, Satire, and Chaos” — Loki as mythic archetype, satire as resistance, AI as digital trickster.
May 22, 2025
Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series
Online — hosted by Timothy Gager
May 8, 2025
Book Cellar — Chicago, IL, 7:00 pm
Ben Tanzer, “After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema,” in conversation with Kurt Baumeister.
May 6, 2025
Twilight of the Gods — Book Talk
The New School — New York, NY, 6:00–7:00 pm
Twilight of the Gods book talk with Joseph Salvatore and James Reich.
April 26, 2025
Politics and Prose at Union Market — Washington, DC
Twilight of the Gods, with Gemini Wahhaj, Javed Jahangir, and Shimul Mou.
April 23, 2025
Moon Palace Books — Minneapolis, MN
Twilight of the Gods, reading and in conversation with Sequoia Nagamatsu.
April 15, 2025
Beaverdale Books — Des Moines, IA
Twilight of the Gods, moderated by Al Kratz.
April 13, 2025
“Conspiracies & Speculations” — Collected Works Bookstore — Santa Fe, NM, 4:30 pm
Twilight of the Gods, with James Reich and Constance E. Squires. Readings and discussion moderated by journalist and author Julia Goldberg.
April 8, 2025
Unnameable Books — Brooklyn, NY
Twilight of the Gods, in conversation with David Leo Rice.
March 28, 2025
Attack of the Book People III — Hotel Per La, Los Angeles, CA, 6:00–10:00 pm
AWP 2025 offsite. Hosted by Kurt Baumeister on behalf of 7.13 Books, with Rare Bird Books & Eckleburg. Readers: Marilee Albert, Rae Cline, Rosa Kwon Easton, Danielle Harms, Chip Jacobs, Sara Lippmann, Sameer Pandya, Jim Ruland, and Hugh Sheehy.
March 27, 2025
Stalking Horse Press AWP Offsite Reading
1039 S Olive St — Los Angeles, CA, 7:00–10:00 pm
Co-hosted by Kurt Baumeister. Readers included Kurt Baumeister, Andrew Farkas, Stephanie Austin, Tara Campbell, Duncan Barlow, and Shayne Terry.
March 27, 2025
Celebration of Small Presses — What Books Press & Friends
Telescope Studios, 2125 Bay Street — Los Angeles, CA, 6:00–7:00 pm
AWP 2025 offsite. Co-hosted by Kurt Baumeister on behalf of 7.13 Books. Presses included Tía Chucha, Walton Well, El Martillo, Beyond Baroque Books, Magra Books, 7.13 Books, What Books Press, and Giant Claw. Readers included Gemini Wahhaj, J.T. Price, Jackson Bliss, and others.
March 26, 2025
826LA Benefit Reading
831 Venice Blvd., Ste 102 — Los Angeles, CA
AWP 2025. With Jason Quinn Malott, Christine Sneed, Matthew Pitt, Juan Martinez, Xuan Juliana Wang, J. Ryan Stradal, Gina Tron, Tobias Carroll, Leah Angstman, Jon Chaiim McConnell, Sarah Tomlinson, Aatif Rashid, and Laura Warrell.
March 25, 2025
Outside of a Dog Reading Series — Los Angeles, CA area, 7:00 pm
Reading with Mike Speegle; Q&A with Kurt Baumeister and Duncan Barlow.
March 21, 2025
Literati Press Bookshop & Community — Author Event and Book Signing
3022 Paseo — Oklahoma City, OK, 6:00–8:00 pm
Twilight of the Gods, with Constance E. Squires.
March 17, 2025
WORD Bookstore — Brooklyn, NY
Twilight of the Gods, in conversation with Tobias Carroll.
March 16, 2025
Powell’s City of Books — Portland, OR
Twilight of the Gods, Smallpresspalooza #14.
March 12, 2025
Village Well Books & Coffee — Culver City, CA
Twilight of the Gods, in conversation with Christine Sneed.
March 6, 2025
Salt Lake Dirt, Episode 302
Online
March 5, 2025
KGB Bar (upstairs) — New York, NY, 7:00–9:00 pm
Hosted by William Lessard. Read with John Madera and Constance Squires.
March 1, 2025
Stanza Books — Pre-Launch Event, 7:00 pm
Twilight of the Gods, in conversation with Jackie Corley.
February 2025
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode 355
Online — with Ben Tanzer
2024
October 21, 2024
Readings at Ramapo
York Room, Birch Mansion — Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, 1:00 pm
February 10, 2024
AWP Conference — Panel: “Down to the Wire: The Nuts and Bolts of Editing a Manuscript to Publication”
Kansas City Convention Center — Kansas City, MO
With Chaitali Sen and Gemini Wahhaj.
February 10, 2024
Astrohorse
Kill Devil Club — Kansas City, MO
AWP 2024 offsite. Readers: Kurt Baumeister, Duncan Barlow, Mike Corrao, Joe Sacksteder, and others.
February 9, 2024
Attack of the Book People II
Kill Devil Club — Kansas City, MO
AWP 2024 offsite. Hosted by Kurt Baumeister. Readers: Kurt Baumeister, Matt Bell, Jimin Han, Kirsten Chen, Gemini Wahhaj, and James Reich.
2023
March 10, 2023
Attack of the Book People I
Rabbit Box Theatre — Seattle, WA
AWP 2023 offsite. Hosted by Kurt Baumeister, Leland Cheuk, and Jonathan Evison on behalf of 7.13 Books. Readers: Dionne Irving, Steve Almond, Christine Sneed, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Brandon Hobson, and Shin Yu Pai.
March 8–11, 2023
AWP Conference — Panel: “Show Me the Money: New and Creative Ways to Fund Your Writing Life”
Seattle Convention Center — Seattle, WA
Hosted by Sara Connell. With Aatif Rashid, Billy Lombardo, and Dionne Irving.
March 8–11, 2023
AWP Conference — Small Press Publishing Panel
Seattle Convention Center — Seattle, WA
With Leah Angstman and David Byron Queen; moderated by Dustin M. Hoffman.
2022
October 15, 2022
US Release of Waiting for Jonathan Koshy by Murzban F. Shroff
Online (Zoom) — 12:00 pm ET
Hosted by Astrophil Press. Reading with Murzban F. Shroff and Christine Sneed.
2021
December 2021
Drinks with Tony, Episode 167
Online — with Tony DuShane — Podcast
2021
KGB Bar (upstairs) — New York, NY
Hosted by William Lessard. Read with Beth Lisick and Farooq Ahmed.
May 23, 2021
Debut Buddies — “Literary Protagonists”
Online — with Leland Cheuk — Podcast
April 6, 2021
A Vague Idea
Online — with Jonathan Evison — Podcast
2020
October 6, 2020
Lit on Politics — Online
With Mónica Ramón Ríos, Amber Sparks, and Tara Campbell.
July 3, 2020
Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 17
Online — with John Madera — Podcast
April 20, 2020
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode 221
Online — with Ben Tanzer — Podcast