Kaya Press authors ANELISE CHEN and Q.M. ZHANG come together to discuss trauma, memory and the writing. Both authors push the boundaries of genres with their hybrid and experimental text that refuse to be placed in simple categories such as memoir, novels, self-help and more. Moderated by author, educator, and playwright Proshot Kalami. Blending elements of self-help, memoir, and sports writing, ANELISE CHEN's So Many Olympic Exertions is an experimental novel that perhaps most resembles what the ancient Greeks called hypomnemata,…
Find out more »Join Palo Arts Center for a meet & greet with LILLIAN LI, author of the hit debut novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant. Tickets $30 per person includes book and light dinner. Seating is limited. Purchase ticket by Friday, October 5th. All proceeds support BCNC programs for children, youth, and families. ABOUT THE AUTHOR LILLIAN LI is the author of the novel Number One Chinese Restaurant (Henry Holt). Her work has been published in Guernica, Granta, Glimmer Train, Bon Appetit, and Jezebel.…
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.