Natalie Hodges

Upcoming Events

May 2025 OverDrive Big Library Read selection.

Honors

• 2022 National Book Award Longlist
• 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Shortlist
• New York Times “Editors’ Choice” selection
• NPR “Books We Love” 2022 Selection
• Smithsonian Magazine “Ten Best Science Books of 2022” selection
• Marginalian “Favorite Books of the Year” 2022 selection
• Poets & Writers “Page One” selection
• Publishers Weekly “Books of the Week” selection
• BookBrowse “Best Books Publishing This Week” selection
• Powell’s Books “Best Books of the Year” 2022 selection
• Odyssey Bookshop “First Editions Club” selection
• Seminary Co-op Bookstores “Front Table” selection
• Reading Group Choices April 2023 feature

Reviews

• The New York Times — Editors’ Choice Selection; “A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition” (Alexandra Jacobs)
• The New York Times Book Review — “Mourning Songs for Lives, and Art, That Could Have Been” (Kat Chow)
• The Marginalian — “We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time”; “Improvisation and the Quantum of Consciousness” (Maria Popova)
• Electric Literature — “8 Memoirs About the Journey to Becoming a Classical Musician” (Martha Anne Toll)
• Chaucer’s Books (Santa Barbara, CA) — In conversation with Michael Pollan
• The Harvard Gazette — “Natalie Hodges ’19 shares painful memories in ‘Uncommon Measure’” (Caitlin McDermott-Murphy)
• The Strad Magazine — Book review (Julian Haylock)
• Poets & Writers — Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin (March/April 2022). Audio here.
• Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX) — “Music, Connection, and the Science of Time: An Interview with Natalie Hodges” (Laura Mills); “Patrick’s Top 10 Books I Have Been Recommended”

Podcast Features

• Back from Broken (Colorado Public Radio) — CPR; Spotify.
• Delving In with Stuart Kelter — Spotify; broadcast archive.
• The Creative Process Podcast — Full interview (with Mia Funk); highlights.

Past Events

• March 22, 2022 @ 7 pm MT — Tattered Cover Book Store (Aspen Grove) — Littleton, CO
• March 24, 2022 @ 7 pm ET — Odyssey Bookshop, in conversation with Tim Honig — South Hadley, MA
• March 25, 2022 @ 7 pm ET — Harvard Book Store, in conversation with Andrew Krivak — Cambridge, MA
• March 29, 2022 @ 7 pm ET — McNally Jackson (Seaport), in conversation with Cheryl Pearl Sucher — New York, NY
• April 6, 2022 @ 7 pm PT — Chaucer’s Books, in conversation with Michael Pollan — Santa Barbara, CA (virtual). YouTube livestream here.
• September 9, 2023 @ 6:30 pm — Louisville Free Public Library, in conversation with Daniel Gilliam — Louisville, KY. YouTube livestream here.
• October 27, 2023 @ 7 pm MT — Louisville (CO) Public Library — Superior, CO