Live Conversations with Authors & Experts
Live events with writers, scholars, and experts provide a platform for significant, timely, and thought-provoking conversations. As a moderator, my goal is to enable the audience to gain a deeper understanding of the guest’s expertise, personal history, writing process, and cultural impact.
I research and plan my questions carefully before each event, but I also let the conversation flow organically—and questions from the audience are always welcome.
I’ve moderated live conversations (in person and online) with Anna Quindlen, Joy Harjo, Jonathan Eig, Dani Shapiro, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Lori Gottlieb, Perri Klass, and many other writers and special guest speakers. As one author told me as we walked outside after an event, “Thank you, that was a lot of fun. I was in good hands with you up there.”
““It was an honor and pleasure to be in conversation with Lori Rotskoff at last night’s event with UJA-Federation of New York/UJA in Westchester…For over 1.5 hours Lori and I got to engage with a crowd of 100 dedicated community members, filling the Larchmont Temple social hall.””
Lori in conversation with Anna Quindlen, hosted by Scarsdale Adult School
Lori with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Eig
With best-selling author Roxana Robinson in conversation about her novel, Leaving
Lori with Mimi Zieman, MD, author of Tap Dancing on Everest, and book talk guests
Lori with Abby Chava Stein, author of Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
Past Events:
June 2024, Roxana Robinson, best-selling author of Leaving, in person
June 2024, Mimi Zieman, MD, Author of the memoir Tap Dancing on Everest, in person
December 2023, Jonathan Eig, best-selling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2024, on King: A Life, in person
December 2023, Natalie Sandy, Executive Producer, Lessons in Chemistry, TV series for AppleTV+
February 2022, David Sipress, author of What’s So Funny? A Cartoonist’s Memoir
December 2022, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, best-selling author of the novel Take My Hand
November 2022, Bonnie Garmus, NY Times Bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
October 2022, Jason Mott, author of Hell of a Book, A National Book Award Winner for Fiction
October 2022, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Journalist, Activist, and Co-Founder of Ms. Magazine; bestselling author of Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy, in person
September 2022, Ann Leary, author of the novel, The Foundling
February 2022, Annelise Heinz, Historian at the University of Oregon and author of Mah-Jong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
October 2021 U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, author of the memoirs Poet Warrior and Crazy Brave and many esteemed works of poetry
September 2021, Deirdre Sinnott, author of the debut novel The Third Mrs. Galway
May 2021, Gabrielle Glaser, author of American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
May 2021
FIVE TOWNS: ONE BOOK. Bringing communities together for important conversations around Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Sponsored by CURE (The Coalition for Understanding Racism through Education) in partnership with five community libraries in Westchester County
April 2021, Perri Klass, MD, Pediatrician and author of A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
March 2021, Maya S. Lang and E. Dolores Johnson on “Mothers, Daughters & Family Secrets”
March 2021, Jonathan Eig, Bestselling author, on the craft of researching and writing biography
January 2021, Jamiles Lartey, Journalist for The Marshall Project, on “Criminal Justice, Race, and Policing”
December 2020, Abby Stein and Amber Scorah on “Leaving the Fold: Contemporary Memoirs of Faith, Doubt, and Community”
January 2020 , Lori Gottlieb, Psychotherapist and NY Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, in person
June 2019, Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love , in person
October 2018 , Anna Quindlen, author of the novel Alternative Side and other works, on her career as a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and novelist, in person
Lori with author Lori Gottlieb (center), and director of Scarsdale Adult School Jill Serling (right)