6-16-2020
One on One with Sheryl McCarthy
FAMILY: In a wide-ranging television interview 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 on the media archive page.)
6-8-2020
Honor Moore With Our Revolution
JUSTICE: 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.
5-12-2020
NYIH Conversations: Honor Moore
THE BORDERS OF MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY: Honor discusses the importance of chronicling women's lives, and the challenges of writing at the border of memoir and biography.
5-10-2020
Live at Prairie Lights: Mother’s Day Reading & Dialogue with Honor Moore & Emily Bernard
Honor Moore will read from and discuss her memoir, Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury and Emily Bernard will read from and discuss her book, Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine.
The New York Times called Our Revolution “Ruminative…lyrical…the writer and the child return repeatedly to a collection of fragments, rearranging and reconsidering them in the shifting light of age.” In addition to Our Revolution, Honor Moore is the author of The Bishop’s Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The White Blackbird, a New York Times Notable Book, as well as three collections of poems. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar, among others. She lives and writes in New York City, where she is on the graduate writing faculty of The New School.
Emily Bernard’s Black is the Body is the winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, was named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and NPR, and was named one of Maureen Corrigan’s 10 “Unputdownable Reads”. Her work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Boston Globe Magazine, Oxford American, Ploughshares, The New Republic and The Atlantic among others. Her first book, Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont.
4-19-2020
Honor Moore reads from "Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury" with Marian Moore and Patricia Hampl
TWO DAUGHTERS, ONE MOTHER: Honor reads from Our Revolution, and, in a conversation moderated from Minneapolis by her sister Marian Moore, discusses her family's activism. With Twin Cities author Patricia Hampl.
4-15-2020
The New School
Critical Essay with Amanda Petrusich, Moderated by Honor Moore
Amanda Petrusich is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of three books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and has been nominated for a Grammy Award. Her criticism and features have appeared in the Times, The Oxford American, Spin, Pitchfork, GQ, Esquire, The Atlantic, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her most recent book, Do Not Sell At Any Price, explored the obsessive world of 78-r.p.m. record collectors. She is an assistant professor at New York University’s Gallatin School.
Moderated by Honor Moore, faculty at the Creative Writing Program.
4-11-2020
Politics & Prose
Honor Moore, "Our Revolution"
A BISHOP'S WIFE IN THE CAPITAL: 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.
4-8-2020
AudioFile
The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
THE WHITE BLACKBIRD AUDIOBOOK LAUNCH: Audible releases the audiobook of Honor's first memoir, featuring Stockard Channing.
4-7-2020
3-28-2020
Dog Talk (and Kitties Too!)
DOG TALK: Honor tells stories from her mother's life, and with her friend of 45 years, host Tracie Hotchner, discusses Our Revolution.
3-25-2020
The New School
Nonfiction Forum with Honor Moore | The New School
LAUNCH AT 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.
