Events




SPRING 2008

April 8,
Mills College, Oakland, California
Mills Hall, 5:30 pm

April 9-11
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Writers Festival with Tom Bissel, Kelly Link,
and Hannah Tinti

April 12
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
Underground America Reading
4pm

May 10
Marfa Book Company Reading
Marfa, Texas

May 20
826 NYC Park Slope Brooklyn
Underground America Launch
Brooklyn, New York
With Dave Eggers, Jaykumar Menon, Doug Ford,
and Others





SUMMER, FALL, 2007

August, 23
San Francisco State University, Welcome Days
San Francisco, California

September 9-21
Visiting Hurst Professor, Washington University
St Louis, Misouri

September 24, 6:30 PM
Reading, College of Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico

September 25, 7 pm
Panel Discussion on Namibia
San Francisco State University

September 28
Reading, California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

October 7
Litquake
San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium

November 14
Reading, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Between the Lines Reading, A Public Space Event also featuring a film set in Namibia by Dantia Maur MacDonald.
New York, NY

November 16
Reading, Virginia Commonwealth University
VCU Novel Prize
Richmond, VA


WINTER, SPRING, 2007

January 11, 8:00 pm, Edinburgh Castle
With Anthony Swafford and and Steve Elliott.

January 25, 8:00 PM,
Dog Ear Books, San Francisco, Valencia and 20th Street.
With Anne-E Wood.

Feb 1, 6:00, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.
With Chris Abani. Reading and conversation.

Feb 6, Stanford University
Reading by Peter Orner
7:30 pm
Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113
Palo Alto, California

Bard College, Feb 12.
Annandale-On-Hudson, New York

Mercantile Library, Feb 27
New York City

Virginia Festival of the Book, March 25
Charlottsvile, Virginia

SUNY Albany, March 27
Faith and Doubt in Modern Jewish Fiction
With Shalom Auslander
Albany, New York

New School, April 9
With Kiran Desai
New York City

Arkansas Book Festival, April 10
Fayettville, Arkansas

Highland Park Public Library, April 17
Highland Park, Illinois

FOCUS ON THE ARTS, April 18
Highland Park, IL

University of Illinois, April 19
Champaign/​ Urbana, IL

READINGS, FALL 2006

Penisula Jewish Community Center, Foster City, California

Litquake, San Francisco, CA October,

Sargent Prize, Award Ceremony, New York City, November 2

San Francisco State University, November 19

READINGS AND OTHER EVENTS, APRIL-AUGUST, 2006

April 10, San Francisco, Modern Times Bookstore, Valencia Street San Francisco, 7pm

April 24, San Francisco State University, Writers on Writing, 7pm

April 27, Newtonville, Massachusetts, Newtonville Books, 7pm

April 28-29, Newburyport Book Festival (in honor of Andre Dubus), reading and panel discussions

May 1, San Francisco, A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books, reception 6:30, reading, 7 pm

May 4, Tacoma Washington, Pacific Lutheran University, 8 pm

May 6 Seattle, Elliot Bay Book Store, 1 pm

May 9, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2:30 pm

May 10, New York, Guggenhiem Fellowship Reception, 1pm

May 10, New York, KGB Bar, 7 pm

May 14, Boston, Northeastern School of Law, reading, 8 pm

May 16, Galesburg, Illinois, Knox College, reading, 4 pm

May 17, Iowa City, Iowa, Prarie Lights Book Store (co-sponsered by the Jewish Writers Series and The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop) 7 pm

May 18, Chicago, Powell's North Book Store, 7 pm

May 24, Capitola, California, Capitola Book Cafe, 7 pm

May 30, San Mateo, California, Temple Beth El, reading, 7 pm

June 8, Deerfield, Illinois, Barnes and Nobel, reading, 7 pm

June 24, San Francisco, Grotto Works Event with Jason Roberts, Caroline Paul, Chris Cook, Melanie Gideon, Kaui Hart Hemmings, and David Ewing Duncan

June 29, San Francisco, Novel Writing Seminar, fundraiser for 826 Valencia with Armistead Maupin, Ayelet Waldman, Peter Orner and Tara Weaver. Moderated by Oscar Villalon of the Sf Chronicle

July 17, Chicago, Progressive Reading Series Event District Progressive Reading
The No Exit Cafe, Chicago, IL
Featuring: Aleksandar Hemon, Audrey Niffenegger, Peter Orner, Dan Beachy-Quick, Simone Muench, Hosted by Stephen Elliott

August 18-August 26. Breadloaf Writers Conference, Middlebury, VT


Esther Stories
"A spirit of passionate tenderness broods over these stories. It is as if love, transcending itself, has become a wisdom so perfect it must cherish everything--grace, of course, and awkwardness too, and innocence, and guilt, and haplessness. And yes, clear-sighted and unhonored loss."
-- Marilynne Robinson
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
A vivid, personal, often wrenching and occasionally enraging first-person look into the immigrant experience, what editor and novelist Orner calls a "state of permanent anxiety."
-- Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
Magazines and Anthologies
Orner's work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's, The Southern Review as well in Best American Stories, has won two Pushcart Prizes, and appeared in a number of anthologies.