Events Archive
2016
New York, New York
“Transient Glory” Concert
Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Merkin Concert Hall
11/6, 7 pm
Brooklyn, New York
“Transient Glory” Concert
Young People’s Chorus of New York City
National Sawdust
11/4, 7 pm
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Lecture: “Writing Plenty/Writing Hunger/Writing North Carolina”
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
-10/28, Noon
New York, New York
The Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Reading
Baruch College
-10/18, 5:00 pm
Turin, Italy
Festival Alla tavola delle migranti
Reading and conversation
-9/17, more information (in Italian)
New York, New York
The Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Fall Semester 2016, Baruch College
– Course description
Brooklyn, New York
Greenlight Bookstore
In conversation with Diana Abu-Jaber
re her memoir Life Without a Recipe
-4/19, 7:30 pm
Hartford, Connecticut
47th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Opening Night Reading
-3/17, details to come
New York, New York
Festival Neue Literatur 2016
Festival Chairperson
– 2/25-28 – multiple locations
2015
New York, New York
Decatur, Georgia
Oxford, Mississippi
Bielefeld, Germany
Kyoto, Japan
Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus
Part One: Reading
MC and Translator: Kyoko Yoshida (Ritsumeikan University)
– 5/27, 10:40 am-12 pm — Shoshikan Conference Room (1F)
Part Two: Lecture and Discussion
(The lecture will be in English, translated into Japanese.
The discussion is in English & Japanese.)
MC: Shigemi Nakagawa (Ritsumeikan University),
Translator: Kyoko Yoshida (Ritsumeikan University),
Discussion Moderator & Speaker: Keiko Shimojo (Kyushu University),
Discussion Speaker: Yuki Matsumoto
(Hagoromo University of International Studies)
– 5/27, 4:30-8:30 pm — Shoshikan Conference Room (1F)
» download pdf (English) | pdf (Japanese)
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo and Matsue, Japan
U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship
– 3/1-5/30
Staten Island, New York
Reading and Q&A
– 2/25, 4:30 pm – Wagner College
New York, New York
Festival Neue Literatur 2015
Festival Chair
– 2/19-22 – multiple locations
New York, New York
Second Saturdays Reading Series
– 2/7, 7 pm
2014
New York, New York
Singapore Literature Festival in NYC
– 10/11, 3:30-4:30 pm – 92nd Street Y
Omaha, Nebraska
Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily, Italy
New Haven, Connecticut
Arlington, Virginia
New York, NY
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2013
New York, NY
Deutsches Haus at New York University
Reading with Antje Ravic Strubel
– 10/18, 6:30-8:30 pm
Omaha, Nebraska
New York, NY
Umbertide, Italy
New York, NY
New School’s Center for Public Scholarship 29th Social Research Conference:
Food and Immigrant Life: The Role of Food in Forced Migration, Migrant Labor,
and Recreating Home
Reading – “Writers on Food and Migration” with Von Diaz, Marie Myung-Ok Lee,
and Tiphanie Yanique
– 4/19, 6:00-7:30 pm, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
Long Island University’s Honors Spring Conference: Food, Culture, and Identity
Panel – “Food, Ethnicity, and Identity” with Jane Ziegelman and Laura Schenone
– 4/10, 10:20-11:50 am, LIU Brooklyn Campus: Library Learning Center, Room 116
2012
Washington, D.C.
Singapore
Oxford, Mississippi
Thacker Mountain Radio with Randall Kenan and John Dufresne
Lyric Theater
— 10/18, 6 pm
Helsinki, Finland
Visiting Writer, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Writer Programme
– 4/2-6/30
Helsinki Prose Conference
– 5/10-12
Interview with David McGuire, U.S. Embassy Press Attache
Think Corner, American Resource Center
– 4/12, 2-3 pm | download pdf
Atlanta, Georgia
Colloquium – Emory University Reading Series
– 3/22, 2:30pm
The Feminist Founders’ Reading and book signing – Emory University Reading Series
– 3/21, 6:30pm
Washington, D.C.
Reading – PEN/Faulkner Reading Series with Allegra Goodman and Myla Goldberg
— 1/9, 7:30pm
2011
Santa Fe, NM
Reading and signing with Dora Wang and Virginia Scharff
Collected Works Bookstore–11/8, 6pm
San Francisco, CA
Hedgebrook Alumnae Event – California College of the Arts, SF – 11/5, 4-6pm
Los Angeles, CA
Reading and signing – Vroman’s – 11/3, 7pm
Reading – Otis College of Art and Design – 11/2, 7:30pm
Bitter-Inspired Dinner – Good Girl Dinette -11/1, 7pm
Seattle, WA
Reading and signing – Elliott Bay Bookstore – 10/29, 2pm
Langley, WA
Discussion and staged reading – Whidbey Island Center for the Arts –
10/26, 7:30-9:30pm
Bellingham, WA
Reading and signing – Village Books – 10/24, 7pm
New York, NY
Discussion with graphic novel memoirist GB Tran (Vietnamerica) –
Greenlight Bookstore – 9/28, 7:30pm
Panel and Q&A – Random House, Inc. – 6/30, 1-3pm
Third Annual Author Event for NYC Educators with Neal Bascomb,
GB Tran, and John Prendergast
Panel and Q&A – Asian American Writers’ Workshop – 6/16, 7pm
How to get your book published: From Writing a Query Letter to Signing a Contract
with Juliet Grames, Kirby Kim, Wendy Lee, Ed Park, Zohra Saed, and Jin Auh
Washington, DC
Vietnamese American Literature and Film Panel
with Isabelle Pelaud, Truong Tran and Mark Tran,
Ring Auditorium, Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
– 4/14, 6:30pm
Manchester, NH
The Book of Salt Reading and Reception,
Chapel Art Center, St. Anselm College – 3/10, 6pm
Villanova, PA
Reading – Villanova Literary Festival, Villanova University – 2/10, 7pm
New York, NY
Reading – Sunday Salon Reading Series (at Jimmys No. 43) – 1/16, 7pm
2010
New York, NY
Book Party – Asian American Writers’ Workshop – 9/7, 7pm
Reading & Signing – The powerHouse Arena – 9/8, 7-9pm
Panel & Signing – Brooklyn Book Festival – International Stage – 9/12, 11am
(“Food, Metaphor and Memory” with Lara Vapnyar, Amy Besa, and Jessica Hagedorn)
Allentown, PA
Reading & Signing – Muhlenberg College – 9/13
Charlotte, NC
Reading & Signing – Joseph-Beth – 9/14, 7pm
Asheville, NC
Reading & Signing – Malaprop’s – 9/15, 7pm
Houston, TX
Reading & Signing – Brazos – 9/16, 7-8pm
Los Angeles, CA
Reading & Signing – Book Soup – 9/20, 7pm
Santa Ana, CA
Reading & Signing with Andrew Lam – VAALA Cultural Center – 9/21, 6:30-8:30pm
San Francisco/Bay Area, CA
Reading & Signing – San Francisco State University – 9/22 (afternoon)
Reading & Signing – Mrs. Dalloway’s, Berkeley – 9/22, 7:30pm
Reading & Signing – Book Passage, Corte Madera – 9/23, 7pm
Reading & Signing – California College of the Arts, SF – 9/24 (afternoon)
Reading & Signing – A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland – 9/24, 7pm
Reading & Signing sponsored by DVAN – The Writers’ Studio
at California College of the Arts, SF – 9/26, 4-6pm
Reading & Signing – Kepler’s, Menlo Park – 9/27, 7pm
Madison, WI
Reading & Signing – Wisconsin Book Festival – 9/29
Dudley, MA
Reading & Signing – Nichols College – 10/4, 7pm
Boston area, MA
Reading & Signing – Brookline Booksmith – 10/5, 7pm
New York, NY
Reading – Pete’s Candy Store Reading Series – 10/21, 7:30pm
New Haven, CT
Reading & Signing – Kehler Liddell Gallery – 11/6, 6pm
New York, NY
Reading – Franklin Park, Brooklyn – 11/8, 8pm
Berlin, Germany
Reading – Literaturwerkstatt, 11/25, 8 pm
New York, NY
Reading – Behind the Book Reading Series (at KGB Bar) – 12/9, 7pm