Upcoming Events

May 01, 2025, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM New York, 115 E 68th St, New York, NY 10065, USA

“Jane Austen with a schmear” - Susan Isaacs, best selling author, screen writer, and previous editor at Seventeen magazine and freelace political speechwriter.

An alumna of Queens College, Isaacs chaired the board of directors of Poets & Writers, the literary organization, for 20 years. She is past president of Mystery Writers of America and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, and the International Association of Crime Writers. She has written fifteen best-selling novels such as Compromising Positions, Lily White, and Shining Through.

Her fifteenth novel–and second of the Corie Geller series– Bad, Bad Seymour Brown–received rave reviews from critics.

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Location: Adelphi University Performing Arts Center on its Garden City Campus

Hours of Your Participation on Saturday: 1.5-2 hours from 5pm-7pm

Location Address: Performing Arts Center, Adelphi University, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530. A campus map and directions can be found here

Moderator: Jacqueline Jones LaMon (jajolamo@gmail.com), poet, author and professor.

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Award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alice McDermott makes a special visit to Long Island to discuss her critically acclaimed new novel, Absolution, with novelist Susan Isaacs.

Krasnoff Theater at Long Island University
720 Northern Boulevard Brookville, NY 11548

Get Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gold-coast-book-fair-special-event-alice-mcdermott-tickets-902014749397?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Queens College Office of Alumni Relations invites you to join us on

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Brunch with President Frank H. Wu
10:30 am–12:30 pm

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Susan Isaacs ’65

Novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and Queens College Foundation Trustee Emerita

$30 per person

Fort Lauderdale Marriott Pompano Beach Resort and Spa
1200 N. Ocean Blvd
Pompano Beach, FL 33062

RSVP by February 19, 2024 http://bit.ly/QCFL2024 or call 718-997-3930

Hunter College
695 Park Ave
New York, NY 10065

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71 East Main St
Patchogue, NY 11772

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EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY

Authors Night Party

Contact:
Dennis Fabiszak: Dennis@easthamptonlibrary.org
Emmie Greene: Emmie@easthamptonlibrary.org

https://authorsnight.org/authors/

Authors Night is the largest and most prominent annual fundraising event held in East Hampton, NY. It is attended by a great mix of major literary prize winners, best selling authors, local residents, philanthropists, celebrities, tourists and book lovers from around the world. The evening begins with the Authors' Book Signing Reception under a huge but festive tent. We expect approximately 2,000 guests who will enjoy fabulous cocktail fare and wine, meet their favorite authors, buy their books and have them inscribed. We will have 100 authors in attendance. Following the reception some of the authors will be hosted at private dinners which guests will donate to attend. We have set up a special website showcasing all the authors involved and their books. The website http://www.authorsnight.org will also give you more information about “Authors Night 2023” including photos of the event from prior years.

Reception tickets will be $150 each. 100% of the ticket and the book sales are a donation to the East Hampton Library, Unlike many libraries that are 100% tax supported, the East Hampton Library raises 30% of its operating budget each year in order to provide the funding for all of the free programs which are available to every member of the community. Authors Night helps make this possible.

BRIDGEHAMPTON LIBRARY

Fridays at Five
2478 Main Street
Bridgehampton, NY 11932

Contact:
Sabrina Allan
sabrina.allan78@gmail.com
P 347-598-2726

The Hampton library is located at 2478 Main Street Bridgehampton NY. We have parking across the street and we will have a pass to give you.

Link: https://myhamptonlibrary.org/about-us/library-friends#july-28

Contact:
Claudette Gassler
cgassler@wlsmail.org
646-418-3302

PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY
1 Library Drive
Port Washington, NY 11050

The Friends of the Library presents Susan Isaacs, author of the new book Bad, Bad Seymour Brown, in conversation with PWPL Library Director Keith Klang. Susan Isaacs is the author of fourteen novels, including Takes One to Know One, As Husbands Go, Long Time No See, Any Place I Hang My Hat and Compromising Positions. A recipient of the Writers for Writers Award and the John Steinbeck Award, Isaacs is a former chairman of the board of Poets & Writers,and is a past president of Mystery Writers of America.

The Port Washington Public Library is proud to host this special author event with New York Times best-selling author and fellow Port Washington resident Susan Isaacs. Her latest book, Bad, Bad Seymour Brown, returns two favorite characters, former FBI agent Corie Geller and her retired cop dad. They are tasked with solving one of the NYPD’s coldest homicide cases before the crime’s sole survivor is killed. “Nobody does smart, gutsy, funny, sexy women better than Susan Isaacs.” – Washington Post. Ms. Isaacs’ fiction has been translated into 30 languages and several of her books have been adapted into screenplays for the big screen.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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Book & Author Luncheon
At the GARDEN CITY HOTEL
45 Seventh Street
Garden City Long Island, NY 11530

MANHASSET, NY Author talk: Susan Isaacs in conversation with Meg Wolitzer

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Contact: Joe Donahue, jdonahue@wamc.org

Featuring Geraldine Brooks, Best-Selling Novelist,  Blake Bailey, Author of “Philip Roth: The Biography” with Moderator Susan Isaacs

Online reservations will be possible via a special webpage beginning April 1. Please check PWPL.org/fol or email fol@PWPL.org for more information in the coming months.

Join the Brandeis National Committee’s Three Sisters Chapters (Trails of Delray Beach, Wellworth, and Wycliffe) for a panel discussion with authors Rivka Galchen, Dani Shapiro, and Susan Isaacs on the impact of the pandemic on literature. Riva Galchen is an award-winning fiction writer and journalist whose work appears often in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The London Review of Books and The New York Times. She is the author of three books: “Atmospheric Disturbances” (2008), “American Innovations” (2014) and “Little Labors” (2016).

An Evening of Long Island Crime Fiction with Peter Blauner and Reed Farrel Coleman moderated by Larry Davidson

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The FOL this year celebrates the 50^th Golden Anniversary of its signature Book & Author Luncheon. We proudly announce that the two outstanding featured authors will be: Award-winning novelist and LI native Meg Wolitzer, whose best-seller The Female Persuasion, an absorbing look at female power and self-determination, was recently selected as the 2019 Long Island Reads pick. And Anthony Tommasini, the Chief Classical Music Critic for The New York Times, whose The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide provides a master class in what greatness means in music. Port’s own best-selling novelist Susan Isaacs returns as Program Moderator.  Tickets are $85 per person. Reservation brochures are available April 1 in the Library or print the reservation brochure from this link and mail in the form. The event typically sells out so mail early! For information email** fol@pwpl.org**. The event will include special features highlighting the luncheon’s illustrious 50-year history. https://pwpl.org/fol/

Thrilled that I’ll be interviewing Francine Klagsbrun about her definitive biography of the head of state everyone called Golda. We’ll be speaking at Temple Beth Israel on Temple Drive in Port Washington, NY, 7:30 PM this Tuesday, May 14. The book is rich and eminently readable, and the author a pleasure to listen to!

BEA – Susan Isaacs will be signing copies of the galley on May 30, 2019 at 2 PM at the Atlantic Grove booth.

Long Island LitFest Presents Jennifer Weiner on June 13 at Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington at 7:30 pm. Susan will be moderating the talk. http://longislandlitfest.com/

I’ll be a featured reader at this year’s Long Island LitFest on May 31st. Here’s more information at their website. I’ll be in session 2, which begins at 2:45.

Tune in tomorrow, April 20th, on Hallmark Channel as Susan’s novel comes to life in a made for TV movie.  Check local listings for times.  http://www.hallmarkmoviechannel.com/

Hunter College’s Writers’ Conference: On June 8, 2013, at 3:15pm, Susan will be a member of the Fiction Panel along with other noted authors and publishing folk.  For more info go to: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/thewritingcenter-ce/conference

Port Washington Friends of the Library hosts it’s annual luncheon at North Hills Country Club in Manhasset, New York, on May 17th. Susan will be emceeing the program that features Pulitzer Prize finalist David Nasaw, author of “The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy,” and Will Schwalbe, author of New York Times bestseller “The End of Your Life Book Club.”  For more info see http://www.pwpl.org/blog/2013/01/31/44th-annual-book-author-luncheon/

Progress Center of the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, located at 1265 Snelling Ave., Saint Paul, MN

Susan Isaacs and Nelson DeMille will join together for an evening of lively conversation at the great Landmark On Main Theatre in Port Washington, New York

Susan will be participating in the Arizona Women’s Board 33rd Annual Erma Bombeck Authors Luncheon on Saturday, November 3rd. Other authors will include Adriana Trigiani, Jeffrey Toobin, and Dr. Andrew Weil.

Susan will be appearing at Old Westbury Gardens for a “Meet the Author” event, in Old Westbury, New York. More details at their website www.oldwestburygardens.org

Susan will be speaking at Westhampton Free Library, 7 Library Avenue, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 – 6:00 pm.

Susan will be at Books & Books at 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134-5046.

Susan is going to speak at Book Hampton, 41 Main Street, East Hampton, NY 11937 – 5:00 pm.

Susan will be speaking to the Crime Fiction Academy at the Center for Fiction at 7 p.m.

Susan will be speaking at R J Julia Book Sellers located at 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, CT 06443-3047- 7:00 pm

Susan will be at Barnes & Noble on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, 150 East 86th, Street New York, NY at Lexington Avenue – 7:00 pm

Susan will be speaking at the Great Neck Library, at 159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck, New York 11023 – 7:30 pm

Susan will be at the Bridgehampton Library “Fridays at Five” Series – Book/Author Talks at 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, NY 11932

Susan is speaking at a book and author luncheon sponsored by four chapters of the Brandeis National Committee at the Wycliffe Country Club in Lake Worth, Florida.

Susan is being honored at a luncheon given by the Westhampton (LI) chapter of Hadassah.

Susan will be on stage interviewing fellow best selling author, Nelson Demille, at the Landmark Theatre in Port Washington. You can obtain additional information at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org

Susan will be at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 12:00pm. Follow the link for more information on this wonderful event if you are down in the Miami area at that time.

At 7:30 pm at The Dolphin Bookshop in Port Washington, New York. They are hosting a discussion and book signing by award-winning journalists and New York Times bestselling authors Cokie and Steve Roberts. In their latest book, Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families, Cokie and Steve Roberts offer their own ideas for conducting a Passover Seder open to all faiths and chronicle their experiences as an interfaith couple.

Susan will be honored by Queens College for her outstanding work and ongoing support of her alma mater. Click here for more information.

Susan will be participating in this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, held at the Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201. Susan will be appearing at 5:00PM at the Borough Hall Courtroom featuring The Center for Fiction Presents: Criminal Intent. Bestseller lists in America are dominated by crime fiction these days. What’s the attraction to murder and mayhem? And what separates great mystery writing from the merely good? Hear Lawrence Block (A Drop of the Hard Stuff), Susan Isaacs (As Husbands Go), Persia Walker (Black Orchid Blues), and Peter Blauner (Slipping into Darkness) on these topics and more. Moderated by Jonathan Santlofer (Anatomy of Fear).

Fun for mystery fans! Susan Isaacs will be interviewed by fellow author Rosemary Harrison Tuesday, June 5th. It’s another “A Writers Dialogue” an evening of conversation about mysteries, writing and careers.

Today is the paperback release of Susan’s twelfth novel, “As Husbands Go”