This is a virtual event and a fundraiser for the Willamette Heritage Center. I’ll be giving a talk titled, “Mining the Gaps: How a Fiction Writer Re-Imagines History,” which will explore the motivations for and approaches to writing about historical subjects in fiction, the dual roles of research and the imagination, and questions of accuracy and authenticity. In particular, I will address the types of gaps in the historical record that provide rich points of entry for invention, with specific examples from stories set in Salem, the Willamette Valley, and elsewhere in Oregon. Register here: https://www.willametteheritage.org/zooming-back-to-history/.

I’ll be reading from While It Lasts at Seattle’s excellent Third Place Books, Ravenna location: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/scott-nadelson

I’ll be signing copies of While It Lasts at the University of Georgia Press booth at the AWP Bookfair. Get your copy hot off the press (5 days before the official pub date).

The great Annie Bloom’s Books will host me for a reading to launch ONE OF US on Tuesday, October 20. Register to join the livestream here: https://www.annieblooms.com/event/livestream-reading-scott-nadelson-one-us.