Events

UPCOMING EVENTS                        

Friday, March 18, 2022. Virginia Festival of the Book. Andy will discuss his book, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky. Details forthcoming.

 

PAST EVENTS 

Monday, December 13, 2021. 11 am EST/7 pm Moscow, Russia time. Virtual event hosted by the American Center and American Embassy in Moscow. Andy discussed his new book, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky with Lisa Dickey, New York Times bestselling author of Bears in the Streets. The event will is in English. Watch the event here.

Wednesday, December 8, 2021. 7 pm EST.  92 Y. New York City.  Virtual event. Andy spoke about his book, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky.  View the event here.

Thursday, November 18, 2021, 8 pm EST/5 pm PT. University of Oregon. Virtual event. Andy spoke about his new book, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky. Watch the event here.

Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 2 pm EST. Brandeis University and North American Dostoyevsky Society. Virtual event. Andy spoke about his new book, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky. Watch the event here.

October 24, 2021. The Avid Reader Show, hosted by Wellington Square Bookshop. Andy was interviewed about The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky.  Watch the podcast here.  

October 14, 2021. Amichai Levy podcast. Andy was interviewed about The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky. Watch the podcase here.

October 10, 2021. Alain Guillot podcast, Life, Literature, and Money Matters. Andy spoke about The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky  Watch the podcast here.

Thursday, September 9, 2021. 7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT. Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrison, PA. Virtual Event via Zoom. Andy discussed his new book, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky, with Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times- bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Watch the event here.

August 31, 2021. Andy discusses The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky, on the national radio program Constant Wonder. Listen to the interview here.

National webinar about Seats at the Table, a feature documentary film about Books Behind Bars, hosted by PBS and moderated by New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, featuring Books Behind Bars creator Andrew Kaufman, formerly incarcerated youth Brad Brewer, former UVA student Kelsey Bowman, and Valerie Boykin, Director of Virginia’s Department of Juvenile Justice. October 19, 2020. View the panel discussion here: https://buff.ly/30TQKnx

OTHER PAST EVENTS (National Airing of Seats at the Table in 2021)

Seats at the Table, a feature documentary film about Books Behind Bars, has aired on PBS on the following stations:

WHUT Washington D.C.

WYIN / Lakeshore PBS Chicago, Illinois

KRCBDT San Francisco, CA

THE WORLD CHANNEL: The World Channel presented the film to its 172 member stations across the country at three different times on Monday October 5th and Tuesday October 6th.

KVIEDT2 Sacramento, CA

WLRN Miami, Florida

WNPT Nashville, TN

KBDI Denver, CO

KRCB San Francisco, CA

KMOS Columbia, Missouri

WCET Cincinnati, OH

KENW Albuquerque, New Mexico

WEAO WNEO Cleveland/Akron, Ohio

WNEO Youngstown, OH

WEFS Orlando, Fla

WIPB Indianapolis, IN

WNSC South Carolina

KVCR Los Angeles, CA

February 2019

Radio IQ/ NPR airs a story about Seats at the Table, a feature documentary about Andrew’s Books Behind Bars program.

March 2019

Seats at the Table, a feature documentary film about Books Behind Bars, is one of fourteen films selected for the 2019 SXWX EDU Festival.

April 2019

Seats at the Table screened at the Richmond International Film & Music Festival

Fall  2018

Seats at the Table documentary about Books Behind Bars, had its world premiere at the Global Peace Film Festival in Orlando; played at United Nations National Assembly Film Festival and the Virginia Film Festival.

Summer 2018

The Books Behind Bars program is featured on the front page of the Washington Post. Read the article here.

Andrew and his student, Josh Pritchett, discuss Books Behind Bars on the Megyn Kelly Today show.