Interviewing strangers over a meal since 2008 (as featured in the Washington Post)
The first Bee Lady Day took place in Hull, East Yorkshire, last week to honor the life of fundraiser Jean Bishop. Jean, featured as the 69th dinner stranger in December 2014, was renowned in the region for her work. For decades, she’d dress in an eye-catching bumblebee costume to raise…
Emmy-nominated writer and standup comedian Alex English — recently a writer on “Saturday Night Live” and several years ago the 112th stranger featured on this site (I’ll let you decide which honor is most prestigious) — is performing in Austin, Texas, this coming weekend. He’ll be at the Cap City…
In the interests of expanding the readership of this site beyond just my mum and dad (though I’m grateful for them), a couple of friends suggested that I start posting my articles to Substack. And I do as told, so the Dining With Strangers Substack is now up. Feel free…
Following on from yesterday’s Throwback Thursday article highlighting my dinner with the 97th stranger Jim Obergefell, there’s a related event coming up next month at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. David Danzmayr, music director of the Oregon Symphony, will conduct a concert by the National Orchestral Institute and Festival…
Author Monika Pickett, the 128th stranger featured on this site, is hosting a talk and book signing, “If Only For One Night,” in Atlanta on Thursday May 22. It’s hosted by Mimi Faust, who was featured on “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” and in addition to Monika’s reading there will…
Far too late with posting this news, but food critic and radio host Tom Fitzmorris died on February 12 in his beloved hometown of New Orleans, at the age of 74. It was due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, NOLA.com reports. Tom was the 49th stranger interviewed for this site…
Writer Jonn Elledge, the utterly charming, smart and funny 131st dinner interviewee, was the first interview on this site in almost five years back in January. He discussed his book “A (Brief) History of the World in 47 Borders,” which at the time was only available in hardback or audiobook…
Gary Krist, a New York Times-bestselling writer of historical non-fiction and the 70th stranger I met, will be in DC next week to talk about his latest book. He’ll discuss Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco at Politics &…
More news about strangers I missed last year! Actor and writer Stephen Tobolowsky, perhaps best known as Ned Ryerson in “Groundhog Day,” continues to be one of the most prolific character actors working today. We met in October 2014 at an LA diner for the 66th interview, spending more than…
I’ll be doing the 131st and 132nd dinner interviews — the first in almost five years — next week in London. If you’d like to be featured on this site, simply click here to book a dinner and we’ll take it from there. In the meantime, I’ve been checking up…