I’m thrilled to be hosting a FREE monthly morning reading series for parents/caregivers at the very cool Oakland community space, Local Economy!

Modeled off my friend Nicole Haroutunian’s series in Queens, Storytime for Caregivers invites parents and caregivers to bring babies and toddlers along to a morning reading–but in a new twist, the books are for the adults! Each month I’ll be in conversation with a writer of fiction or nonfiction with a caregiving theme. They’ll read briefly, we’ll all chat, and they’ll end with a book for the younger crowd. After the one-hour event, we’ll have time for an IRL hang-out: a goal of this series!

Babies absolutely welcomed but not required.

Tuesday, September 8, 2026. 10-11:00am.

This month we’ll be chatting with Amanda Montei, author of Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control, a work of memoir and cultural criticism. The LA Review of Books writes, “Montei deftly reveals the web of outrageous expectations, contradictions, and impossibility that is the institution of motherhood in the United States today.”

Bring a baby, a friend, or come on your own!

Register for free here.

Past guests:
Vanessa Hua, Coyoteland
Darby Saxbe, Dad Brain
Sarah Wheeler, discussing parenting/caregiving books she actually found helpful
Kate Schatz, Where the Girls Were
Rachel Richardson, Smother
Courtney Martin, Learning in Public, discussing “sandwich generation” care
Minna Dubin, Mom Rage
Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning Destroyer of Men’s Souls
Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary
Ruth Whippman, Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
Elissa Strauss, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others

If you’ve written a book with a parenting/caregiving theme and are interesting in participating in the series, please reach out!