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All dressed up, let’s go for a swim! Bonnie, Daniel Handler, and Andrew Sean Greer.

All dressed up, let’s go for a swim! Bonnie, Daniel Handler, and Andrew Sean Greer.

upcoming events:

October 24, 2024: Bonnie talks about ON MUSCLE on a nonfiction panel with Harvard humanist chaplain Greg Epstein and celebrated naturalist Nalini Nadkarni at the 2024 Library Journal Day of Dialog, which offers a look at the biggest forthcoming books of the fall and winter. Register here with Library Journal and get free access to recordings of the event.

November 16, 2024, 11am: Bonnie and Mavericks pioneer Sarah Gerhardt will be reading SARAH AND THE BIG WAVE during a children’s story hour at the Traveler Surf Club in Pacifica (5450 Coastal Highway, Pacifica). Books are available for purchase and signing in store!

January 18, 2025: Bonnie will be leading a series of Muscle Walks around SFMOMA’s biggest and newest exhibition, Get in the Gametours will be held at 11am, 1pm, and 2pm, and are free with museum admission. Space is limited, reserve your ticket here!

How big is a BIG WAVE??

Bring Bonnie to you.

Bonnie has given talks about her books and stories at Stanford University, Duke University, NYU, CUNY, the Mechanics’ Institute, the Museum of Chinese in America, Kaiser Permanente, Patagonia, Adidas, Nike, and other educational settings including schools and libraries. She has traveled on tour numerous times with Pop-Up Magazine, performing in front of thousands. And she helped to launch F&B: Voices from the Kitchen, a storytelling project from La Cocina that shares stories from cooks and kitchens that are less often heard.

Bonnie has also presented storytelling workshops at Stanford, the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and to other private clients and companies. She is a dynamic, fun, and interactive speaker on journalism and the craft of reporting and writing.

Listen to Bonnie talk on The Rich Roll Podcast about swimming and on the Longform Podcast about writing, and read her viral NYT essay on fallow time.

Watch her talk about the balm of the baking show for a live event in San Francisco.