2013 Appearances | |
21 February 2013 Peabody Essex Museum East India Square 161 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970-3783 Thursday, 6:30-9:30 pm | PEM/PM: Hot Fusion: Explosive Global India Experience street food, music and a fresh serving of the hottest Indian-American writers, as PEM's Atrium is transformed into Café Samovar, Bombay's artistic and intellectual hotspot. Join this fascinating conversation about art, books, America and global India, with Pulitzer-Prize finalist Suketu Mehta, along with authors Rajesh Parameswaran and Rishi Reddi. Chef demonstration and tasting provided by TAJ Boston. We are pleased to partner for this event with The Tannery Series, an effort to bring well-known authors to the North Shore. More |
| 6 March 2013 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference Boston Playwrights' Theater, 949 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Wednesday, 8:00pm | RACE IN YOUR FACE The Tannery Series presents our most provocative event to date. With our nation integrated for less than 50 years, how does American writing reflect the complexities of our most intractable topic? David Mura (Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire), Jerald Walker (Street Shadows), Stephanie Powell Watts (We are Taking Only What We Need), and Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Nairobi Heat) will show us the subtly-evolving, 21st century American identity. More |
| Selection of Past Appearances | |
7 May 2011 369 E 1st St Los Angeles, CA 90012 | 8+1: A Symposium: Voices from the Asian American Literary Review- Los Angeles, CA A day-long celebration of nine of today's most accomplished and exciting Asian American writers. Hosted by the Japanese American National Museum, to be held on May 7th, 2011, from 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Free to the public. Please direct any inquiries to editors@aalrmag.org. FEATURING: Joy Kogawa - R. Zamora Linmark - Ray Hsu - Viet Nguyen - Brian Ascalon Roley - Reese Okyong Kwon - Kip Fulbeck- Hiromi Itō & translator Jeffrey Angle - Rishi Reddi |
20 November 2010 The TanneEast India Square 161 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970-3783 USAry Marketplace 12 Federal Street, Newburyport MA 01950 | The Tannery Series presents One Furious Feast Enjoy a literary banquet serving up "the original Thanksgiving ideal: two different worlds - mutually incomprehensible, occasionally hostile - brought together at one table. (Sort of like dinner with your in-laws.) From Maori war dances to Indian-American weddings, from Disneyland to the caves of Lascaux - we'll travel across cultures, tastes and ages to celebrate the vibrant, furious differences that make our turkey - loving nation great. How many worlds collide at your table?" |
