2023-2024 Appearances

live, virtual, and in the media:

• “Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters,” Words on Hudson Literary Festival, April 12th, 2024, Hastings on Hudson, NY (live).

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Kathy Valentine and Joan LeMay,” Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, November 12,(live).

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Amanda Hess,” P & T Knitwear, New York, November 3rd, more details soon (live).

• Featured guest, Allyson McCabe, Something (rather than) Nothing.

• “Why it Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinéad O’Connor,” Lit Hub.

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Tabassum Siddiqui,” Toronto Public Library.

• “Remembering Sinéad O’Connor,” Wisconsin Public Radio, live call-in radio broadcast.

• Cited in “Jann Wenner's Rock Hall is crumbling — is it worth fixing?” NPR.

• “Remembering Sinéad O’Connor with Allyson McCabe,” KPFA Women’s Magazine.

• “Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters with Allyson McCabe,” Booked Up.

• “Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters,” Feminist Magazine.

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Kimberly Mack and Rachel Angel,” Malaprop’s Bookstore.

• “Allyson McCabe,” Bar Fights with Sarah Klein.

• “‘A True Prophet’: Why Sinéad O’Connor Risked Her Career to Call Out Catholic Church Abuse,” live television and radio broadcast, Democracy Now!

• “CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab speaks with O'Connor's biographer, Allyson McCabe,” CBS News live television broadcast.

• “Sinéad O’Connor Was Always a Protest Singer,” New York Magazine’s Vulture.

• Cited in “Sinéad O’Connor Called the Pope An ‘Enemy’ on SNL and Was Banned,” The Washington Post.

• Cited in “Sinéad O’Connor Remained True to Herself at All Costs,” The New Republic.

• Cited in “Sinéad O’Connor Redefined Pop Stardom. It Came at a Cost,” Teen Vogue.

• Cited in “The Bald Power of Sinéad O’Connor,” The New York Times.

• Cited in “Why Sinéad O’Connor’s Story is Everyone’s Story,” KCRW.

• “Sinéad O’Connor: An Immense Talent Remembered,” RTÉ Radio 1.

• “Remembering Sinéad O’Connor,” live radio broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5.

• “Why Sinéad O’Connor Refused to Be Silenced,” BBC Culture.

• “What Did We Get Wrong About Sinéad O’Connor?” BBC Reel.

• “Sinéad O’Connor,” Talkback, BBC Radio Ulster.

• “Sinéad O’Connor’s Iconic Life and Career,” The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn, CBC Radio.

• “Appreciation: Sinéad O’Connor Was Right All Along,” Los Angeles Times.

• “Allyson McCabe presents Dilys Winn, Who Brought Murder and Mystery to Manhattan " Dead Ladies Show, Book Club Bar, New York (live)

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Jessica Hopper,” Exile in Bookville, Chicago (live)

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Geoff Edgers,” Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge (live)

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Vernon Reid,” Rough Trade, New York (live)

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Allison Wolfe,” Book Soup, Los Angeles (live)

• “Allyson McCabe” guest lecturer in Allison Wolfe’s course on Music Journalism, UCLA (live)

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Gayle Wald,” Solid State Books, Washington, DC (live)

• “Allyson McCabe” book signing at Picture Book, Dobbs Ferry, NY (live)

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Dan Kennedy,” Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY (live)

• “Allyson McCabe in Conversation with Sadie Dupuis and Mighty Joe Castro,” Head House Books, Philadelphia (live)

• “Allyson McCabe,” WXPN Morning Show, Philadelphia, live radio broadcast.

• “Allyson McCabe on Sinéad O’Connor,” Transmissions.

• “On the Creative Process with Allyson McCabe,” Sparkchamber.

• “Fighting the Real Enemy with Allyson McCabe,” You’re Wrong About.