Madeleine Dunnigan and Jonathan Safran Foer

Julia Angwin, Ami Fields-Meyer, and Barton Gellman

Wednesday, July 8: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, Julia Angwin, & former White House Senior Advisor, Ami Fields-Meyer, to celebrate and discuss their book On Courage; How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear, a deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian. Julia and Ami were joined in conversation by Barton Gellman, a Senior Advisor at the Brennan Center for Justice and the author of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State and the bestselling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency.

Serena Chopra and Alicia Mountain

Thursday, July 2: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Serena Chopra to celebrate and discuss her poetry collection A Catalog of Future Mercies; a lyrical exploration of mercy as resistance to cyclical violence told in ghost stories and family histories. Serena was joined in conversation by Alicia Mountain, author of Four in Hand and High Ground Coward.

Lu Chekowsky and Elissa Bassist

Tuesday, June 23: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Lu Chekowsky to celebrate and discuss her new book Don't Buy What I'm Selling; one part memoir, one part manifesto, Don’t Buy What I’m Selling is a fascinating, smart, and hilarious look at a woman determined to go deep inside advertising so she could save the world—and herself. Lu was joined in conversation with Elissa Bassist, author of the memoir Hysterical.

Madhushree Ghosh, Sayu Bhojwani, and Hawa Hassan

Wednesday, June 17: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Madhushree Ghosh to celebrate and discuss her new book Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West. Madhushree was joined in conversation by Sayu Bhojwani, author of People Like Us, and Hawa Hassan, author of Bibi's Kitchen.

Trans Athletes Speak Up: Eli Erlick, Chris Mosier, and Michael Waters

Thursday, June 11: Between the Olympics abruptly banning trans women to the erasure of trans sportsmen, trans athletes are being targeted like never before. But trans communities are fighting back, and a few key members, Eli Erlick, Chris Mosier, and Michael Waters, joined us at P&T for the panel Trans Athletes Speak Up.