Admired and best-selling authors offer advice and discuss their latest books.
Get ready for beach reading at our Summer Picks author panel with Hilary Davidson, Every Lie I Told; Connor Martin, The Silver Fish; and Camille Perri, Social Animals. Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster at Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine.
Hilary Davidson was a journalist before she turned to the dark side and started writing crime fiction. Her novels include the award-winning Lily Moore series—The Damage Done, The Next One to Fall, and Evil in All Its Disguises—the bestselling Shadows of New York series—One Small Sacrifice and Don’t Look Down—and the standalone novels Blood Always Tells and Her Last Breath. She is also the author of some fifty short stories. Her fiction has won two Anthony Awards, a Derringer Award, and a host of other accolades. Her novels have been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, and Russian. Toronto born and raised, she moved to New York City in October 2001. She is also the author of eighteen nonfiction books.
Connor Martin is a writer and former senior US national security official, most recently serving as Deputy Director on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) at the Treasury Department. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and he splits his time between Washington and Brooklyn. The Silver Fish is his first novel.
Camille Perri is the author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy. She has worked as a book editor for Cosmopolitan and Esquire. She has also been a ghostwriter of young adult novels and a reference librarian. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University, where she majored in English and gender and sexuality studies, and a Master of Library Science degree from Queens College. She splits her time between New York City and the Hudson Valley with her wife and their Brussels Griffon named Pip.
Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster at Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine.
May 27, 2026 – August 26, 2026
Wednesdays, 12:30pm-1:45pm
May 27: Writers Read hosted by Ed McCann
June 3: Memoir with writers Jeffrey Banks, Stefan Merrill Block, and Ian Jarvis
June 10: Seriously Funny with writers Jenny Hagel and Maeve Dunigan
June 17: Masters of Suspense with writers Alison Gaylin, Ed Lin, and Kimberly McCreight
June 24: Summer Picks with writers Hilary Davidson, Connor Martin, and Camille Perri
July 8th: Frankie Grande
July 15th: Dog Day Reads hosted by Ilana Levine
July 22nd: Panels in the Park hosted by Meg Lemke
July 29th: Speculative Fiction hosted by Lisa Burdige
August 5th: Endless Summer
August 12th: Unputdownable! hosted by Ilana Levine
August 19th: Writing with Purpose with authors Annabelle Gurwitch, Sam Roberts, and Casey Sherman
August 26th: TBA
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