*Event time change*
My event tomorrow at BookPeople, Austin, TX, has been rescheduled for 12 pm so people can make it home before the bad weather.
January 24: In conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye about FCL30, at BookPeople, Austin, TX, 12 noon. 

1/17/26: I am having so much fun with the First Comes Love 30th birthday media coverage and celebrations. Events coming up in Austin, NYC, Boston and Washington, DC. New edition and new audiobook available wherever you like to buy such things.

Things to Read
• "I Knew He Was Gay and I Married Him Anyway," for Oprah Daily
• Journalist Jane Winik Sartwell interviews her mom, for Writer's Digest
• On People.com: A Marriage, An AIDS Diagnosis, and A Death By Suicide: The Story of First Comes Love
• On Lit Hub: Read or listen to the new introduction, Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction
• In Publishers Weekly: Twelve Memoirs of Widowhood
• "My Life as a Memoirist" for The Shit They Don't Tell You About Writing substack
• Audiofile review, very nice
• Leslie Gray Streeter's article in The Baltimore Banner
• On Baltimore Fishbowl: Happy 30th Birthday, First Comes Love: Behind the Scenes of the New Audiobook 

Things to Listen To or Watch
• Tom Hall interview on WYPR's Midday
• PRH podcast, "This is the Author"
• Jason Blitman's superfun "Gays Reading" podcast
• Dani Shapiro's podcast Family Secrets, "Should We Do This?"

9/6/25: The story of a long and nurturing friendship: Ellen, of All People, also on Fishbowl.

Browse the Bohemian Rhapsody archive — running since 2011 on Baltimore Fishbowl.

Marion's "Lives" columns for The New York Times Magazine: "Grand Theft Litho" and "A Mother of A Certain Age".

An archive of Marion's commentaries for All Things Considered.

Lots more essays and articles in the links archive and work archive.

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