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All dressed up, let’s go for a swim! Bonnie, Daniel Handler, and Andrew Sean Greer.
upcoming events:
January 18, 2025: Bonnie leads a series of Muscle Walks around SFMOMA’s biggest and newest exhibition, Get in the Game—tours will be held at 11am, 1pm, and 2pm, and are free with museum admission. Space is limited, reserve your ticket here!
April 22, 2025, 10am: Publication day for ON MUSCLE! Bonnie talks with KQED FORUM live in studio.
April 22, 7pm Pacific: Book launch party! Bonnie will be in conversation with author and adventurer Caroline Paul at Green Apple Books on the Park; 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco. CA. Space is limited, RSVP here!
April 23, 10am Pacific/6pm U.K.: Bonnie will be in conversation with host Hannah MacInnes for How To Academy. Online event, tickets here!
April 23, 12:30pm Pacific: Bonnie talks muscle with Alta Live’s interview series on Zoom; register here!
April 24, 7pm Pacific: Bonnie will be in conversation with writer Rachel Levin at Clio’s Books & Bar; 353 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA. Space is limited, tickets available here!
April 27, 3-5pm Pacific: Bonnie will be in conversation with big-wave photographer Sachi Cunningham at Traveler Surf Club Malibu; 3862 Cross Creek Road, Malibu, CA. Books available for purchase and signing in store, RSVP here!
April 28, 7pm Pacific: Bonnie will be in conversation with award-winning novelist and showrunner Charles Yu at Book Soup in Los Angeles; 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA. Tickets available here!
May 1, 12pm Pacific: Special lunchtime event with Amber Fitzsimmons, professor and chair of the department of physical therapy and rehabilitation science at the University of California, San Francisco, and assistant professor Maddie Norris and associate professor Barbie Klein; Rock Hall Auditorium, UCSF Mission Bay Campus, 1550 4th St, San Francisco; more details to come!
May 13: Conversation with Alison Cuddy at The Arts Club of Chicago; 201 E. Ontario Street, Chicago. Details to come!
May 21, 9am Pacific: Mind Body Solutions’ Yoga, Disability, and Transformation session with pioneering yoga teacher Matthew Sanford on Zoom; register here!
May 21, 5pm: Claremont Country Club Oakland Literary Society Book Club, presented in partnership with Mrs. Dalloway’s.
May 27, 6pm Eastern: Bonnie will be in conversation with science writer Rachel E. Gross at the Brooklyn Public Library’s gorgeous new Brooklyn Heights Branch; 286 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn. Register here!
May 28, 7pm Eastern: Bonnie will be presenting from On Muscle at Politics & Prose on the Wharf with special guests the D.C. Retro Jumpers; 610 Water Street SW, Washington, D.C. Free; come ready to jump some double Dutch!
May 29, 6pm Eastern: Bonnie reads and discusses On Muscle at The Buzzed Word for the bookstore’s May Books & Bottles Book Club; 11805 Coastal Highway, Unit C,
Ocean City, Maryland. More details here!
June 3, 5:30pm Pacific: The Commonwealth Club of California hosts Bonnie, Ku Stevens, and Paige Bethmann for a conversation about On Muscle and Bethmann’s documentary film Remaining Native, about Stevens’ 50-mile Remembrance Run through the Nevada desert to remember the route his great-grandfather’s took to escape from a Native boarding school; 110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco. Tickets available here!
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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.
Watch and 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.