Thing
What
Where
When
A Family Story About Colonialism and its Aftereffects
Essay
The Atlantic
May 2024
Vinson Cunningham’s Searching Novel of Faith and Politics
The Nation
The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)
Recommendations
Vulture
Apr 2024
Ridenhour Prizes
Emcee
Watergate Hotel (D.C.)
Mar 2024
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Unpacks Black Literature's 'Black Box'
Review
The New York Times Book Review
Writing about Yourself Isn’t Inherently Selfish
Feb 2024
How Book Reviewing is Changing and Why it Matters
Talk
AWP (Kansas City)
Panel and Conversation on “Do the Right Thing,” Directed by Spike Lee
Avalon Theater
Tope Folarin, Black Becomings
The New Africa Diasporas Podcast
Introduction of Edwidge Danticat at Pen/Malamud Awards
American University
Dec 2023
A Redacted Past Slowly Emerges
Nov 2023
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich
The Washington Post
Leila Aboulela + Tope Folarin
Interview
Georgetown University
Oct 2023
The Best Books of 2023 (So Far)
Teju Cole and the Forking Paths of Autofiction
Itoro Bassey + Tope Folarin
Kramers
Sep 2023
Bauder Lecture: Nadia Owusu
Howard County Community College
Duality’s Holding Place: Interview with Tope Folarin
Napkin Poetry Review
Aug 2023
Colson Whitehead Loses the Plot
Jul 2023
FOMCL Keynote Speech
Wheaton Library
May 2023
Chuck Collins + Tope Folarin
Institute for Policy Studies
Stephen Buoro + Tope Folarin
Politics and Prose
Conversation with Dennis Lehane, Angie Kim, Lou Bayard, David Aldridge, and Torie Clarke
Podcast
Chatter on Books
Apr 2023
Alex Mar + Tope Folarin
In This Novel, the Dead Are Never Far Away
Mar 2023
Lannan Symposium
Feb 2023
Bisi Adjapon + Tope Folarin
Busboys and Poets
How the Arts Help us Confront the World’s Greatest Crises
Rhodes Trust
Jan 2023
Who is African?
Litnet (Virtual)
Dec 2022
Artist Talk
Dumbarton Oaks
Nov 2022
The Best Books of 2022 (So Far)
A World Where Death Isn’t the End
Oct 2022
Anna Badkhen + Tope Folarin
Are You Done Yet? On the Art of Revising
Workshop/Talk
F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
Chinelo Okparanta + Tope Folarin
Loyalty Bookstore
Family Through A Literary Lens
The Writer’s Center
Utah Humanities Book Festival
Salt Lake City, Ogden
Sep 2022
Abdulrazak Gurnah + Tope Folarin
Sixth and I
Alice McDermott + Tope Folarin (Ulysses Symposium)
Past Pain, Future Hope: Perseverance in Literature with Tomás Q. Morín and Morgan Talty
National Book Festival
Jul 2022
An Opportunity to Act
The Drift
Jun 2022
Writer or Black Writer?: On Craft and Racial Consciousness
D.C. Public Library
Anthony Barnett + Tope Folarin
Greenlight Books (virtual)
May 2022
NoViolet Bulawayo + Tope Folarin
Howard County Library (virtual)
The Ambitious and Overstuffed World of Hanya Yanagihara
Oprah Winfrey Introduction/PEN Faulkner Awards
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
W.E.B. DuBois Men’s Conference
George Mason University
Apr 2022
Person/a: Mysteries of the "Self" in Poetry & Autofiction
Barrelhouse (virtual)
The Existential Turn: A Symposium
Duke University
Mar 2022
Roads Less Travelled
Literary, Identity + Being a Creative
Black + Raww Podcast
Jan 2022
The Quake
Kulturalstach
Most Anticipated Books of 2022
The Empty Chair
PEN South Africa
Special Event: Tope Folarin Reading
Nov 2021
The Lives of Writers
Autofocus
Conversation with Marita Golden
Big Brother
The Continental Literary Magazine
Living in Two Worlds
2 Pages with MBS
Contest to Book Deal
The Inner Loop
St. George, Cedar City, Ephraim, Park City, Salt Lake City
Oct 2021
George Mason Visiting Writers Series
George Mason University (virtual)
Sep 2021
40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall
Aug 2021
Always Call Yourself a Writer
The Republic
Nadia Owusu + Tope Folarin
Split Infinitive: Four Writers on Star Trek
The Writer’s Center (virtual)
Jul 2021
Is There Freedom in the Outdoors
High Country News
Answer, July
The Inner Loop (virtual)
Masters of Reality
Essay (Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2022)
The Baffler
On Autofiction and its Whiteness
Conversation with John Feffer
Haymarket Books (Virtual)
Jun 2021
35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer
May 2021
The Future is HBCU
OzyFest (virtual)
Maine Humanities Council Readers Retreat
Keynote
Maine Humanities Council (virtual)
Apr 2021
Pass the Peas
The Root
Whiting Award Ceremony
Reading
Whiting Awards (virtual)
Bauder Lecture: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenya
Howard Community College (virtual)
Mar 2021
Meet the Author: Tope Folarin
Weber County Library (virtual)
Feb 2021
Literary Conversations: Intersections
Pen/Faulkner Foundation (virtual)
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Speaker Series
UCLA (virtual)
Jan 2021
46 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021