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July 2018
Visiting Writer: 92Y Young Writers Workshop
A workshop for driven, intellectually curious young people who want to explore and develop their writing in a supportive, focused environment in the middle of New York City.
Find out more »September 2018
Amherst College: Reading and Class Visit
Reading hosted by Creative Writing Center at Amherst College.
Find out more »October 2018
Kundiman’s 15th Anniversary Gala
A night dedicated to Asian American Futures! Come have a cocktail with Kundiman fellows, enjoy food from The Breslin, and honor Myung Mi Kim, Ligaya Mishan & Monique Truong, three fabulous Asian American visionaries.
Find out more »2018 Southern Foodways Symposium, Oct 11-13
Opening Keynote with James Hannaham.
Find out more »Transnational Asian American Speaker Series: Crazy Rich Asian: Race, Representation, Resistance?
Panel discussion with David Henry Hwang, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, James Schamus, Monique Truong, and Jeff Yang.
Find out more »November 2018
Experiments in Opera Presents: Modularias
Experiments in Opera presents four new commissioned works for voice and modular synthesizer by composers Joan La Barbara (lyrics by Monique Truong), Jason Cady, Andrew Raffo Dewar, and Kamala Sankaram.
Find out more »Experiments in Opera Presents: Modularias
Experiments in Opera presents four new commissioned works for voice and modular synthesizer by composers Joan La Barbara (lyrics by Monique Truong), Jason Cady, Andrew Raffo Dewar, and Kamala Sankaram. Performances at 3pm and 7pm
Find out more »March 2019
Interpretations 30
Joan La Babara: scenes from Waters Beyond One's Depth, an opera-in-progress with lyrics by Monique Truong; Tom Chiu‘s Ensemble Metrix.
Find out more »Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: A Discussion Among Writers
Featuring Amy Quan Barry, Matty Huynh, Violet Kupersmith, Thanhha Lai, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vu Tran, Monique Truong, and Ocean Vuong. Moderated by Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Mimi Khúc, and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud.
Find out more »May 2019
June 2019
August 2019
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE FESTIVAL (August 2-4)
Fiction Reading: Monique Truong + Madeleine Thien moderated by Terry Hong
Find out more »ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE FESTIVAL (August 2-4)
Novelist Monique Truong gives a personal tour of Asian American literature through a mix of social/intellectual history, anecdotes, and short readings by writers both celebrated and overlooked.
Find out more »IN PRAISE OF TONI MORRISON’S ENDURING LEGACY
In collaboration with the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, the Center for Fiction hosts an evening of readings, music, reflection, and gratitude in celebration of the life and legacy of Toni Morrison. Music by Craig Harris, Vincent Chancey, Jay Rodriguez, Omar Kabir, Richard Fairfax, Lee Odom, and Peter Lin. Readings from Morrison's fiction (in order of appearance): Erroll McDonald, Monique Truong, Keisha-Gaye Anderson, Idra Novey, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Mahogany L. Browne, Tyehimba Jess, Simeon Marsalis, Kia Corthron,…
Find out more »September 2019
SLICE LITERARY WRITERS’ CONFERENCE CRAFT PANEL: “WHAT WE READ WHEN WE’RE STUCK: AUTHORS SHARE THE BOOKS THAT HELP THEM OUT EVERY WRITING IMPASSE”
Monique Truong, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Robert Haller, and Caleb Crain with moderator Loan Le.
Find out more »BOOK LAUNCH: THE SWEETEST FRUITS
Monique Truong presents The Sweetest Fruits with Mayukh Sen.
Find out more »THE SWEETEST FRUITS: BOOK SIGNING WITH FREE DRINKS & NIBBLES AT IZAKAYA
Murder By The Book bookstore will be on site with copies of The Sweetest Fruits for purchase!
Find out more »THE SWEETEST FRUITS: SAKE PAIRING DINNER
Dine with author Monique Truong & enjoy a special sake pairing dinner. Seating is limited so please RSVP to reserve. More info re full menu & featured sakes will be available soon.
Find out more »JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL – HOUSTON, TX
Susan Abulhawa, Monique Truong, and Edward Carey in conversation with Chandrahas Chouldhury about how their words navigate across cultures and continents.
Find out more »DUKE UNIVERSITY
Monique Truong will be holding a seminar. All students welcome!
Find out more »DUKE UNIVERSITY
Public Reading and Author Q&A
Find out more »October 2019
EAST Carolina university’s SOUTHERN LITERARY CELEBRATION: WRITER’S RECEPTION
Interview and discussion led by Dr. Kirstin Squint, Whichard Professor, and Dr. Margaret Bauer, NCLR editor and ECU professor of English.
Find out more »EAST carolina university’s SOUTHERN LITERARY CELEBRATION: READING AND BOOK SIGNING
The North Carolina Literary Review and Dr. Kirstin Squint, 2019-20 Whichard Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, invite you to celebrate an evening of Southern Literature at ECU with special guest Monique Truong.
Find out more »LITCRAWL BROOKLYN
Literary Appetites: Women on Food Charlotte Druckman’s Women on Food is a “variety show of previously unpublished essays, interviews, and ephemera from women working in the world of food.” We bring the show to life with Charlotte and two of her contributors who will discuss their roles in the book, and chat about the literary aspect of food writing and the impact gender, race, and socioeconomics have had on that tradition and in shaping their own work. Moderated by Sabrina…
Find out more »November 2019
THE SWEETEST FRUITS: MONIQUE TRUONG IN CONVERSATION WITH SOLEIL HO
Novelist and occasional food essayist Monique Truong and Soleil Ho, restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, will explore writing about and of food. Eastwind Books of Berkeley is the official bookseller for this event, so please come empty-handed and purchase your copies of Truong's third novel, The Sweetest Fruits, from this beloved indie bookstore.
Find out more »92Y Fall Reading Series: Maylis de Kerangal & Monique Truong
Reading and book signing with Maylis de Kerangal (The Cook) and Monique Truong (The Sweetest Fruits)
Find out more »THE SWEETEST FRUITS: READING AND SIGNING
Monique Truong will read from her latest book The Sweetest Fruits as well discuss her food and flavor-centric novels The Book of Salt and Bitter in the Mouth. Copies of The Sweetest Fruits will be available for purchase at the event. Free but please RSVP online to reserve a seat.
Find out more »HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY’S SERIOUSLY ENTERTAINING: “FOR GOOD MEASURE”
Seriously Entertaining, New York’s premier literary cabaret series showcasing writers and their passions, is an intellectual roller-coaster of a show. More information to come. * Doors open at 6pm.
Find out more »THE SWEETEST FRUITS: READING AND SIGNING
Monique Truong will read from her latest novel The Sweetest Fruits. Free & open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Find out more »MIAMI BOOK FAIR
Monique Truong’s novel The Sweetest Fruits is an ingenious retelling of the many lives of Greek-Irish globetrotting writer Lafcadio Hearn, through the voices of the women who knew him best. Curdella Forbes’s novel, A Tall History of Sugar, tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a Jamaican man who was “born without skin,” so that no one can tell to which race he belongs. A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in The Confessions…
Find out more »December 2019
Kwaidan: introduced by monique truong
Monique Truong will introduce Kwaidan (1964, Masaki Kobayashi) based on four ghost stories by expat Lafcadio Hearn (1850 – 1904). Kobayashi’s first color film, with eerie score. “I wanted to create an atmosphere of terror.” – Takemitsu. 35mm. Approx. 183 min.
Find out more »What the Dickens? 10th annual Reading of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas carol”
Ring in the holidays with our tenth annual reading of Charles Dickens' classic "The Christmas Carol." Grab a hot cider from the cafe, your closest friends, and settle in with us and dozens of terrific readers. This year's confirmed readers include: Tom Beer, Sarah Broom, Isaac Butler, Alexander Chee, Vinson Cunningham, Deborah Eisenberg, Rachel Fershleiser, Isaac Fitzgerald, Josh Gondelman, Rabbi Marisa Elana James, Leslie Jamison, Maris Kreizman, Lisa Lucas, Elissa Schappel, Parul Sehgal, Leanne Shapton, Rob Spillman, Darcey Steinke, Monique…
Find out more »January 2020
Asian Musical Voices of America
“What does it mean and what does it take to find one’s voice as an Asian in classical music?” Musicians: Del Sol String Quartet and Violinist Joseph Lin Writer: Monique Truong Panelists: Charlton Lee, Joseph Lin, Anjna Swaminathan, Monique Truong, Hyeyung Yoon
Find out more »February 2020
Love In and Out of Translation
A conversation with novelist Monique Truong (The Sweetest Fruits) and translators Allison Markin Powell (The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami) and Tess Lewis (One Another by Monique Schwitter) about how these three novels plumb the mysteries of love in its many discordant and concordant manifestations, and the ingenious ways fiction can flesh out these mysteries.
Find out more »March 2020
The Annual Paumanok Lecture in American Literature & Culture
The Department of English, Philosophy and Languages at LIU Brooklyn invites you to join them at The Annual Paumanok Lecture in American Literature & Culture. Featured authors, Tina Chang, Susan Choi, and Monique Truong, will read from their recent work and join in a conversation with LIU Professor Louis Parascandola.
Find out more »July 2020
Madras Café Unlocked Book Club live: The book of Salt by Monique Truong
Free online gathering; registration via EventBrite. Join us for our first (and very exciting) live Book Club with the brilliant and extremely talented author, Monique Truong, who will be joining us to discuss her first novel, ‘The Book of Salt.’ The session will include an interview with the author followed by a discussion about the book and a Q & A, where you will have the opportunity to ask Monique your questions about the book.
Find out more »September 2020
Lan cao & Harlan Margaret van cao in conversation with MONIQUE TRUONG
Online gathering, free with EventBrite registration. Monique Truong in conversation with Lan Cao and her daughter Harlan Margaret Van Cao about their memoir Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, An American Daughter.
Find out more »The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Guest Lecture & Class visit
Online lecture, "Losing Voice/Finding Voice," and Q&A with Dr. Shih-Hui Chen's MUSI 378 Classical, Contemporary & Cross-Cultural Asian Music
Find out more »October 2020
Monique Truong + rick barot
Online gathering, free. Join novelist Monique Truong and poet Rick Barot as they read from their new books, The Sweetest Fruits and The Galleons, and discuss their writing with moderator Professor Jason Oliver Chang. Part of the Asian American Literature Today series, launched in 2014, this event is co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Association for Asian American Studies, and Kundiman.
Find out more »Miami UNIVERSITY, DISCUSSION & CLASS VISIT
Online class visit and discussion of The Book of Salt with Associate Professor Anita Mannur's English/Women's and Gender Studies 435/535: Queer Theory
Find out more »In conversation online: AN-MY LE, MONIQUE TRUONG, and Hannah Turpin
Join artist An-My Lê and author Monique Truong as they discuss how growing up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War became a foundation for their creative practices. The conversation will be moderated by Carnegie Museum of Art curatorial assistant Hannah Turpin. The program is organized in conjunction with An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain, the first comprehensive survey of the politically charged work of An-My Lê (American, born Vietnam, 1960). Featuring over 100 photographs, this exhibition gives insight into her evocative images…
Find out more »November 2020
American university, Discussion & CLASS VISIT
Online class visit and discussion of The Sweetest Fruits with Sandra Beasley's LIT-215 Writers in Print/Person
Find out more »December 2020
Upended: An online Conversation among Andrea Grill, Tess Lewis, Jonas Lüscher, Sasha Marianna Salzman, and Monique Truong
Under the timely topic of "Upended," the participating authors, who hail from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S., will reflect upon and discuss major recent changes and disruptions in the areas of culture, politics, and identity in the German-speaking world and the United States. All participating speakers are affiliated with various editions (past and future) of Festival Neue Literatur, the first and only festival to spotlight German-language and American fiction, and will also read brief excerpts from their most recent…
Find out more »January 2021
The LOFT LITERARY CENTER’S poetry, prose, and pastries: featuring Monique Truong
Inaugural installment of an online series, hosted by Bao Phi. Each episode will begin with a chat about favorite treats and desserts, followed by discussion of emerging and under-the-radar literary artists, craft talk, and a Q&A with the live online audience.
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