Patricia Eakins has read from her work in the US, Europe, and Africa. If you wish, you can hear a sample of her reading from her novel The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste in low-fi (87K file) or hi-fi (673K).
2004
- March 23rd: Contemporary Writers Series, Brown University, Providence, RI.
- March 27th: With Robert Siek and Felicia Sullivan. Ear Inn, New York City.
- October 8th and 9th: With Hugh Ogden, Eddie Sanchez, Mikhail Horowitz. Outloud Festival, The Studio, Grahamsville, New York.
2003
- March 28th: With Matthew Zapruder, Veronica Golos, Jennifer Hecht. The Pingry School, Martinsville, NJ.
- April 10th: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
- April 23rd: James Madison University, Charlottesville, VA.
2002
- January 26: Hopwood Room, Angell Hall, University of Michigan.
- April 23: "Literary Book Reviews: Bane or Blessing?" Panel with Janice Eidus, Herbert Leibowitz, et al. Moderator, Amy Holman. Housing Works Bookstore, New York City.
- May 11th: With Liza Charlesworth, Ann Scott Knight. Ear Inn, New York City.
- May 23rd: 3rd bed Release Event. With Ruth Danon, Gray Lutz, et al. Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York.
- June 5th: With Michael Broder. National Arts Club, New York City.
2001
- March 24: with David Burr, Naomi Guttman and Joel Brouwer. Ear Inn, 326 Spring Street, New York City.
- April 19: AWP Web Fair 2001 in Palm Springs : "The Role of the On-line Review Organ," Moderator, Patricia Eakins, Editor of Frigate: The Transverse Review of Books <http://www.frigatezine.com>. Panelists: Elaine Terranova and Barbara Colin, contributing Editors, Frigate; Mary Bisbee-Beek, publicist (Beeksbee Books, Mpls, MN).
- September 18th: Launch party for Frigate: The Transverse Review, edited by Patricia Eakins, at the Cyber Café, New York City. (Launch sponsored by Martin Construction, Inc.)
Photo by Peter Martin © 2001.
The editors, writers, artists, designers, publishers and webmaster of Frigate celebrate their first issue at Frigate is launch party in the Soho district of New York City.
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2000
- October 23: The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste was the subject of a Lucyle Hook Lecture by visiting French scholar Beatrice Trotignon at Barnard College, New York City.
- September 9: with Eric Darton, Amy Holman, Rilla Askew, Madeline Tiger, Susan Hoover, Mermer Blakeslee, et al. Sixteenth Annual Outloud Festival, Claryville, New York.
- July 13: "It's Not Just about Books: New Technology and Instructional Materials." Conference convened by Mary McGarry, Senior Editor, for Authors and Reviewers of Fairchild Books, New York City, NY.
- July 8: Benefit for the Catskill Reading Society, The Studio, Grahamsville, New York. With Jan Alexander, Oasis Theatre Company.
- April 15: With Alex Chee, Lorraine Schein. Ear Inn, 326 Spring Street, New York City.
- March 11: with Carol Emshwiller, Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, New York City.
Readings in France, October 17-November 2, 1999:
- Oct 22-23: "Reading Eakins" Two-day conference on Eakins's work at the LOLITA [Laboratoire Orléans-Tours de Littérature Américaine] meeting, Faculté des Lettres, Université d'Orléans.
- Friday 22 October:
- A reading by Patricia Eakins in Orléans
- Saturday 23 October (Salle de conseil):
Participants and Papers
- Françoise Palleau-Papin: "Patricia Eakins, Linguae Regeneratrix, or hybrid onomatopoiae"
- Brigitte Félix: "'Delicate Duties': Letters, traces and forms of inscription in Patricia Eakins's stories and novel"
- Tom Pughe: "Caryl Philips and Patricia Eakins: post-colonial nature writing"
- Antoine Cazé: "Reduplication and multiplication: split identities in Eakins's writing"
- Claire Fabre: "The orchid in Eakins's The Marvellous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste: a hybrid flower in an Imaginary 18th century"
To read excerpts from some of the papers presented at the Reading Patricia Eakins Conference, click here.
- Readings for American-studies scholars at the universities of Tours (Oct 21, afternoon), Paris VII (Oct 25: Institut Charles V, rue Charles V), Paris III (Oct 26: Institut d'anglais, 5 rue de l'école de medecine, petit amphitheatre), and the University of Maine at Le Mans (Oct 27).
- Oct 28: Reading at the Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris. Click here for a review.
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1999 — United States
- November 30: with poet Elaine Terranova, Robin's Bookstore, 108 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- October 10: Civic Center Synagogue, New York City
- September 23: Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, Massachusetts
- September 16: Sunset Hall, 2830 Francis Avenue, Los Angeles, California
- September 13: Black Oak Books, Berkeley, California
- August 19: Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury, Vermont
- July 22: Word Thursdays, Bright Hill Farm, Delhi, New York
- July 17: The Library Forum, Woodstock Library, Woodstock, New York
- June 19: Outloud Festival of the Catskill Reading Society, Firemen's Hall, Claryville, New York
- June 18: Spring '99 Readings: The Writer's Voice Awards. The Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA, New York City
- April 28: NYU Press Award Presentation Ceremony, Bobst Library, New York University, New York City
Selected Readings before 1999:
- For The Paris Review at Barnes & Noble (New York City)
- Brooklyn College (New York City)
- Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)
- Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
- Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
- First Congress of the International Beast Fable Society (Agadir, Morocco)
- Quay Theater (Sudbury, England)
- Library Theater (Leighton Buzzard, England)
- "The Poetry Program," KPFA (Berkeley, California)
- Volcano Art Center (Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii)
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Praise for Eakins's Reading:
"I felt like a child again, caught up in fantastic images and offbeat storytelling that aroused my imagination and compelled my total attention.... Not only did Eakins' masterful reading restore a certain childlike innocence to my listening experience, it shifted my focus from everyday reality to a more vibrant, surreal world of her own imagining -- a fantastic mirror, in a sense, of the world as we know it."
— Rebecca Daniels
Woodstock Times, January 25, 1990
"About once a year we are lucky enough to hear a reading of exceptional fiction. Patricia Eakins not only gave voice to such writing, but she also offered us something even more rare: a performance so nuanced and powerful that we were rendered speechless."
— Professor Susan D. Rose
Dickinson College
"I have heard Patricia Eakins read her work in New York City, in a country barn, and to a small college audience. How does she manage to find the perfect words in the first place, then dare to read them with such sureness and intensity as they loom up from the page?"
— Steve Brouwer
author of Sharing the Pie
To inquire about booking Patricia Eakins for readings, workshops, or writers' residencies, please send e-mail to bookeakins@fabulara.com .
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Eakins reading at Black Oak Books, Berkeley
At LOLITA: Happe, Félix, Palleau, Pughe, Cazé, Eakins
The author's name in lights, at the conference 
Félix introduces PE, U du Maine 
At Village Voice Bookshop, Paris (photos: Peter Martin)