Monique Truong

“Free verse for a free nation!” ScreeningRoom.org, in cahoots with the Waterfront Barge Museum in Red hook, invite you to a public reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” from Leaves of Grass.

Performance of a new song cycle by composer Joan La Barbara with lyrics by Monique Truong, featuring Joan La Barbara, Mario Diaz-Moresco, Lauren Flanigan, Julia Meadows, and Ne(x)tworks.

Festival curator: Yoko Tawada. With authors: Jeffrey Angles (USA), Bei Dao (China), Anneke Brassinga (Netherlands), Teju Cole (USA / Nigeria), Hiromi Ito (Japan), Kim Hyesoon (South Korea), Barbara Köhler (Germany), Morten Søndergaard (Denmark), Monique Truong (USA / Vietnam), Jan Wagner (Germany)

Yoko Tawada reads from her novel The Emissary and Tatyana Tolstaya from Aetherial Worlds

Joan La Barbara, Lauren Flanigan, Mario Diaz-Moresco, along with musicians Miguel Frasconi and Bryan Hayslett, perform selections from La Barbara's epic song cycle "The Wanderlusting of Joseph C." with lyrics by Monique Truong, along with La Barbara's "Windows" and "Habité par ses rêves et les phantasms." Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris."

Literature & Politics: Round table discussion with Norbert Gstrein, Jeremy M. Davies and Monique Truong. Presenter: Christine Daum.

Salt & Signs: New prose by Senthuran Varatharajah and Monique Truong.

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.

Reading hosted by Creative Writing Center at Amherst College.

Opening Keynote with James Hannaham.

Panel discussion with David Henry Hwang, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, James Schamus, Monique Truong, and Jeff Yang.

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.

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

Joan La Babara: scenes from Waters Beyond One's Depth, an opera-in-progress with lyrics by Monique Truong; Tom Chiu‘s Ensemble Metrix.

Fiction Reading: Monique Truong + Madeleine Thien moderated by Terry Hong

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.

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,…

Monique Truong, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Robert Haller, and Caleb Crain with moderator Loan Le.

Monique Truong presents The Sweetest Fruits with Mayukh Sen.

Murder By The Book bookstore will be on site with copies of The Sweetest Fruits for purchase!

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.

Susan Abulhawa, Monique Truong, and Edward Carey in conversation with Chandrahas Chouldhury about how their words navigate across cultures and continents.

Monique Truong will be holding a seminar. All students welcome!

Public Reading and Author Q&A

Interview and discussion led by Dr. Kirstin Squint, Whichard Professor, and Dr. Margaret Bauer, NCLR editor and ECU professor of English.

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.

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…

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.

Reading and book signing with Maylis de Kerangal (The Cook) and Monique Truong (The Sweetest Fruits)

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.

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.

Monique Truong will read from her latest novel The Sweetest Fruits. Free & open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.

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…

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.

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…

“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

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.