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A Termination: an interview with TNS Creative Writing Professor Honor Moore about her newest memoir
11-2024 | Lit Magazine
A Place None of Us Know”: Writing, Loss, and Joan Didion’s Late Memoirs
11-5-2024 | Library of America
Grief, Joan Didion wrote, “turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.” In two luminous memoirs, The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights, collected in the capstone volume of Library of America’s Didion edition, she relates the twin tragedies of her husband and daughter’s deaths with stunning precision, poignancy, and power—a late flowering of her genius that won her millions of new readers.
HONOR MOORE ON "A TERMINATION," A MEMOIR. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer
9-24-2024 | Cat Radio Cafe
On tonight’s show we’ll be joined by poet, biographer, anthologist and memoirist Honor Moore to discuss A Termination, her reflection on the events, memories and decision surrounding her abortion at age 23, all finally laid bare, at age 76, to her own written scrutiny.
The Perri Peltz Show
8-2024 | A conversation with Perri Peltz.
Available only to SiriusXM's subscribers
The Revolutionary Writings of Women’s Liberation: A Conversation with Honor Moore and Clara Bingham
9-2024 | Library of America
Friendly City Books
9-2021 | Writing Across Genres
From the Archives: Take Hands (1984)
This freshly digitized collaboration of music and spoken word features Honor with music by guitarist and composer Janet Marlow.
Celebrating the Jenny Moore fellowship
3-2021 | George Washington University
Honor reads, special guests Rosemary Moore and Cutter Wood
Women’s Liberation
3-18-2021 | Library of America
In conversation with Shelly Tuttle
3-2-2021 | Greenlight Bookstore
Cat Radio Cafe
9-27-2020
Our old friendship, Janet Coleman’s sharp political mind, sense of humor, and deft literary intelligence made for a great conversation about Our Revolution addressing our shared experience of the last 50 (!) years--social justice, feminism, and friendship. She reminded me there was life before Covid...and that there will be life after.
Mothers & Daughters
7-29-2020 | West Tisbury Public Library
Honor reads from Our Revolution, and talks with feminist philosopher Carol Gilligan at the West Tisbury Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard.
In conversation with Ellen Chesler
6-23-2020 | BookHampton | RJ Julia
Honor Moore discusses Our Revolution and her body of work in memoir biography with feminist activist and biographer (Margaret Sanger) Ellen Chesler.
A Family Tradition of Activism and Writing
6-16-2020 | CUNY TV
In a wide-ranging television interview with Sheryl McCarthy about Our Revolution, Honor discusses her family's history of activism, and her decision to write about her parents.(Also, check out Sheryl's 2011 interview with Honor below.)
A Mother’s 1960s Activism for Social Justice
6-8-2020 | WGHB Forum Network
Honor & novelist Claire Messud discuss women and social activism; Honor reads about her mother in Chicago, 1968, a passage that echoed continuing demonstrations in response to the murder of George Floyd.
At the Borders of Memoir and Biography
5-12-2020 | NYIH Conversations
In this wide-ranging podcast, Honor discusses the importance of chronicling women's lives, and the challenges of writing at the border of memoir and biography. A conversation with Eric Banks, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
Mother's Day Reading and Dialogue with Emily Bernard
5-10-2020 | Live from Prairie Lights, Iowa City
Alternating with conversation about mothers, race, mothers and inheritance, Honor Moore reads from Our Revolution and Emily Bernard from Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine.
Two Daughters, One Mother
4-19-2020 | Minneapolis, Minnesota
Honor reads from Our Revolution, and talks with her sister Marian Moore about their mother, her activism and their shared legacy. Introduced and moderated by St. Paul memoirist Patricia Hampl.
Honor hosts New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich
4-15-2020 | The New School
Amanda reads, and Honor and her long ago former student talk about the art of criticism.
A Bishop's Wife in the Capital
4-11-2020 | Politics & Prose
Honor reads from Our Revolution at Politics & Prose, the premier Washington DC independent bookshop, centering her talk on that city, where much of the book takes place.
The White Blackbird Audiobook Launch
4-8-2020 | AudioFile
Audible releases the audiobook of Honor's life of her painter grandmother, read by Stockard Channing. Our Revolution and The Bishop’s Daughter are also available, read by the author.
How Writers Write with Honor Moore and Claire Messud
4-7-2020 | How Writers Write
The two friends in a craft conversation to celebrate the publication of Our Revolution.
In conversation with Tracie Hotchner
3-28-2020 | Dog Talk
Honor tells stories from her mother's life (including her mother’s dogs), and with her friend of 45 years, host Tracie Hotchner, discusses Our Revolution.
Launch at The New School
3-25-2020 | The New School
In an event moderated by her colleague Laura Cronk and introduced by Alyssa Shea's evocative video, Honor gives her first public reading from Our Revolution. This first live-streamed Covid-era New School event had nearly 350 live viewers and attracted 800 the next day.
Between The Reader and the Written Word:
A Case for Fine Printing in the Digital Age
10-14-2015
The Grolier Club
47 East Sixtieth Street
New York City, NY
Featuring Adamn Gopnik, Harold Holzer, Honor Moore, Ronald Patkus, Luke Ives Pontifell and Lorin Stein
'Me, My Hair and I' Kick-Off Event
10-1-2015
Barnes and Noble Upper East Side
150 E. 86th St.
New York City, NY
Elizabeth Benedict with meMyra Goldberg, Deborah Hofmann, Alex Kuczynski, Honor Moore, and Bharati Mukherjee
An Evening With Freeman's
9-28-2015
The New School The Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Manhattan, NY 10011
Featuring Anne Carson, Colum McCann, Tahmima Anam, Honor Moore, Garnette Cadogan, Laura van den Berg, John Freeman and special guests.
Wesleyan Writer's Conference
6-10-15 to 7-14-15
Wesleyan University
294 High Street, Room 207
Middletown, CT 06459
Honor will be at Wesleyan Writer’s conference. She will be teaching, reading poetry and consulting on manuscripts.
Columbus Uptown Poets Reading
4-30-2015
Book Culture
450 Columbus Ave.
New York, NY-10024
Honor will be reading with
Miranda Field, John Reed, Victoria Redel, and Leah Umansky.
The Meridel Le Sueur Essay: Sixteen Years of Water~Stone Review
4-11-2015 | Water Stone Review
AWP 2015
Minneapolis, MN
Writing into the World: Memoir, History and Private Life
4-11-2015 | Association of Writers and Writing Program
Moderator: Honor Moore
AWP 2015
Minneapolis, MN
New York State Summer Writers Institute
6-29-2015 - 7-24-2015
New York State Summer Writers Institute
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Honor is Writer in Residence at New York State Summer Writers Institute.
Honor will be reading with Mary Gaitskill at
Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall on
Wednesday, July 8 at 8:00pm
Honor will be introducing Amy Hempel on July 13 and Lloyd Schwartz on July 15.
The Blacksmith House Poetry Series with Peg Boyers
3-2-2015
Nonfiction forum: Paul Auster
12-8-2014 | The New School
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College
65 West 11th Street Room B500
New York, NY 10003
West Tisbury Library POETS HONOR MOORE
8-28-2014 | West Tisbury
Honor Moore: The Bishop's Daughter
4-25-2014 | WGBH Fourum
Honor Moore discusses her most recent memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, the story of Moore's complex and visionary father, a man who was an Episcopal priest, an activist bishop in Washington under the Johnson administration, and a civil rights leader. Moore's story covers issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality, and faith. Moore is also the author of three collections of poems.
Writers Series 2011: Honor Moore
9-06-2011 | University of Richmond
Honor Moore, Distinguished Writer in Residence, read from her work on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at the University of Richmond.
William Kennedy and Honor Moore
7-15-2011 | Summer Writers Institute Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York July 15, 2011 Featuring; William Kennedy (Pulitzer Prize, Ironweed; Roscoe) Honor Moore
One to One: Honor Moore, author, "The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir"
6-02-2011 | CUNYTV75
Sheryl welcomes the writer and teacher Honor Moore to the program. Her memoir The Bishop's Daughter couldn't be more personal and revelatory. She was a child of spiritual and material privilege, her father the revered bishop headquartered at St. John the Divine. But her parents, devoted to helping others, kept huge secrets from their large family. Watch more at www.cuny.tv/series/onetoone
Honor Moore reading a section of Liu Xiaobo's verdict.
12-10-2010 | PEN AMERICA
Justin Spring in Conversation with Honor Moore
9-29-2010 | BOMB! Magazine
Justin Spring spoke with Honor Moore at the New York Public Library on September 29th, 2010. BOMB was there. bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/4674/
Honor Moore reads "The Return"
7-13-2010 | New York State Summer Writers Institute, Saratoga Springs
Book TV: Honor Moore Nashville, Tennessee
10-31-2008 | BOOK TV
Authors discuss their current reading from the Southern Festival of Books.
BOMBLive! Honor Moore and Victoria Redel in conversation, Clip 1
6-30-2008 | BOMB! Magazine
Honor Moores father, the Bishop Paul Moore, captivated the nation by bringing political activism into the priesthood even while he struggled with a deeply guarded secret. Victoria Redels fictional father, Itzaak, escaped from Nazi-occupied Belgium with his own haunting secret to keep, most especially from his daughter, Sarah. The two authors spoke about their books, The Bishops Daughter, a memoir, and The Border of Truth, a novel, before a live audience in lower Manhattan at Housing Works Bookstore, a non-profit organization that provides housing, health care, job training, advocacy, and other services for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.
Recent Work Archives
06-14
Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation