Miss Cerand accepts with pleasure...

Invitations that I have accepted this week, through Wednesday:

I will speak at Adelphi University on February 10.

I will be visiting Los Angeles from February 16-20.

I will join the benefit committee for the 1st Annual Art Fag City Awards on February 23.

I will discuss Madame Bovary at McNally Jackson –– and especially my thoughts on the novel's rise to infamy following a highly publicized obscenity trial in Paris in 1857 –– as part of its series with Time Out New York, on February 28.

I will speak at Backspace Writers Conference in May.