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All dressed up, let’s go for a swim! Bonnie, Daniel Handler, and Andrew Sean Greer.
upcoming events and happenings:
2025: Bonnie leads a series of Muscle Walks around SFMOMA’s biggest and newest exhibition, Get in the Game.
April 20: Bonnie appears on the cover of The Observer Magazine in the U.K.; read the interview, feature essay, and excerpt form the book here.
April 20: Bonnie talks to Jason Wachob on episode 589 of the mindbodygreen podcast, on the deeper meaning of muscle for women; listen here.
April 21: Bonnie is profiled by the journalist Hannah Bae in The San Francisco Chronicle.
April 22: Publication day for ON MUSCLE! Bonnie talks with KQED FORUM host Mina Kim live in studio; listen to (or watch!) the interview here.
Book launch party! Bonnie is in conversation with author and adventurer Caroline Paul at Green Apple Books on the Park; San Francisco. CA. Watch the recording here!
April 23: Bonnie is in conversation with host Hannah MacInnes for the U.K.’s How To Academy. Listen to the podcast, “Rethinking Muscle and the Way We Move,” here.
Bonnie talks muscle with Beth Spotswood for Alta Live’s interview series; watch the recording here! Bonnie is also featured in the California Book Club newsletter in this Q&A with Lydia Horne.
And read the April 2025 “Shelf Life” feature in ELLE magazine, a portrait of Bonnie in books by Riza Cruz!
April 24: Bonnie is in conversation with writer Rachel Levin at Clio’s Books & Bar; Oakland, CA.
Bonnie talks with Ryan Holiday in a wide-ranging conversation about muscle, mind, and why we need to live rigorously, for The Daily Stoic Podcast. Listen to the episode here.
April 27: Bonnie is in conversation with big-wave photographer Sachi Cunningham at Traveler Surf Club Malibu. Signed books available at the shop!
Bonnie talks about how muscles are the unsung heroes of our bodies for The Next Big Idea Club, and chats with KALW host Grace Won for “State of the Bay.”
April 28: Bonnie talks with award-winning novelist and showrunner Charles Yu at Book Soup in Los Angeles. Signed books available at the shop!
April 30: Bonnie talks with host David Martin Davies for Texas Public Radio’s “The Source”—listen to “The Hustle of the Muscle and You” here! And On Muscle is The Next Big Idea Club’s Book of the Day.
May 1: Special lunchtime event with Amber Fitzsimmons, professor and chair of the department of physical therapy and rehabilitation science at the University of California, San Francisco, and assistant professor Maddie Norris and associate professor Barbie Klein; Rock Hall Auditorium, UCSF Mission Bay Campus.
May 2: Bonnie talks with Jumoké Fashola for BBC Radio; listen to their wonderful conversation here (starting at 2:09 in the recording)! And Bonnie talks with nonfiction editor John McMurtrie for “The Kirkus Q&A” in the May 2025 issue of Kirkus Reviews.
May 5: The Independent’s Harry Bullmore interviews Bonnie for “The Secrets to Building Muscle and Exercising for a Longer Life.”
May 7: Bonnie writes about traveling to China with her son to visit her artist dad, for the Spring Issue of AFAR magazine. Read the feature story here.
Listen to Bonnie talk about how the real-life Hulk was a mom with a baby, on KALW’s New Arrivals podcast: “Bonnie Tsui flexes in new book: On Muscle.”
Surf Simply Magazine spotlights Bonnie Tsui in “Cardiac, Smooth, Skeletal, and Surf: On Muscle.” Read the interview with editor Mat Arney here.
May 12, 11am Pacific/7pm U.K.: Bonnie talks muscle with chair Zea Stuttaford in a virtual event with the Trouble Club in London. Tickets available here!
May 13: Conversation with Alison Cuddy at The Arts Club of Chicago; 201 E. Ontario Street, Chicago.
May 21: Mind Body Solutions’ Yoga, Disability, and Transformation session with pioneering yoga teacher Matthew Sanford on Zoom; recording to come!
May 21: Claremont Country Club Oakland Literary Society Book Club, presented in partnership with Mrs. Dalloway’s.
May 25: Bonnie’s essay “The Way You Build Muscle Is the Way You Build a Life” is published in The New York Times Sunday Opinion.
May 27: Bonnie will be in conversation with science writer Rachel E. Gross at the Brooklyn Public Library’s gorgeous new Brooklyn Heights Branch.
May 28: Bonnie will be presenting from On Muscle at Politics & Prose at the Wharf with special guests the D.C. Retro Jumpers; 610 Water Street SW, Washington, D.C. Free; come ready to jump some double Dutch!
May 29: Bonnie reads and discusses On Muscle at The Buzzed Word for the bookstore’s May Books & Bottles Book Club.
June 3: The Commonwealth Club of California hosts Bonnie, Ku Stevens, and Paige Bethmann for a conversation about On Muscle and Bethmann’s documentary film Remaining Native, about Stevens’ 50-mile Remembrance Run through the Nevada desert to remember the route his great-grandfather’s took to escape from a Native boarding school; listen to the recording here.
June 9: Bonnie talks to the wonderful Lauren Hill and Dave Rastovich for the Waterpeople podcast; listen to the episode here!
June 12: On Muscle is featured in The New York Times story “Want to Start Weight Training? These Books Can Help,” about three new books that explore the power of women building muscle.
June 22-25: Bonnie will be a featured speaker at the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival: Health; full event schedule here!
More events coming in September!
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Bonnie has given talks about her books and stories at Stanford University, Duke University, NYU, CUNY, the Mechanics’ Institute, the Museum of Chinese in America, Kaiser Permanente, Patagonia, Adidas, Nike, and other educational settings including schools and libraries. She has traveled on tour numerous times with Pop-Up Magazine, performing in front of thousands. And she helped to launch F&B: Voices from the Kitchen, a storytelling project from La Cocina that shares stories from cooks and kitchens that are less often heard.
Bonnie has also presented storytelling workshops at Stanford, the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and to other private clients and companies. She is a dynamic, fun, and interactive speaker on journalism and the craft of reporting and writing.
Watch and listen to Bonnie talk on The Rich Roll Podcast about swimming and on the Longform Podcast about writing, and read her viral NYT essay on fallow time.