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News

 

Short Girls has been published by Viking Penguin (and in the UK by Penguin/Fig Tree). The audio version is available at AudioBookStand and on Amazon.

Stealing Buddha's Dinner is the 2009-2010 "one book, one state" Great Michigan Read!

 

Some Readings & Events - 2009-2010

 

March 18, 2010: Reading, Vanderbilt University, 7:00 pm

March 15, 2010: Reading and Talk (Branch District Library Community Read), Tibbits Opera House, Coldwater MI, 2:00 pm

December 29: Reading and reception, Pearson & Penguin at MLA Conference, Marriott Courtyard Philadelphia, 6:00 pm

October 29: Reading and talk (Newaygo County "One County, One Read"), Dogwood Center, Fremont MI, 7:00 pm

October 17: Great Michigan Read - Penn Theatre, Plymouth MI, 1:00 pm

October 16: Great Michigan Read - Lansing Community College Dart Auditorium, Lansing MI, 2:00 pm

October 15: Great Michigan Read - Grace A. Dow Memorial Library, Midland, MI, 7:30 pm

October 14: Great Michigan Read - Traverse City Opera House, Traverse City MI, 7:00 pm

October 13: Great Michigan Read - Richard M. DeVos Center, Grand Valley State University Pew Grand Rapids Campus, Loosemore Auditorium, Grand Rapids MI, 7:00 pm

September 29: Reading and talk, Alpena County Library, Alpena MI, 2:00 pm

August 20: Reading/book-signing, Big Hat Books, Indianapolis IN, 7:00 pm

August 18: Reading/book-signing, Schuler Books, Grand Rapids MI, 7:00 pm

August 5: Reading/book-signing, Women and Children First bookstore, Chicago, 7:30 pm

July 12: American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago (McCormick Place): Panel on diversity and literature, 10:30 am; book signing, 12:30 pm

March 18-19: Read Along the Lakeshore Community Read events in Holland and Muskegon, MI

February 12-14: Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Chicago IL

 

Some Readings & Events - 2008


October 25: Book Group Expo, San Jose CA

October 14: Ball State University

September 20: Michigan City Public Library "Writing Out Loud" - Michigan City IN, 7:30 pm

September 18: Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, Cooper-DeWitt Center, 4:00 pm

September 11: Thacker Mountain Radio show, Oxford MS

September 10: Southern Foodways Alliance Viking Range Lecture, University of Mississippi

August 13-24: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

June 27: ALA (American Library Association) Annual Conference, Anaheim CA

April 26: Michigan Notable Books Night, Michigan Public Library, Lansing MI

March 28: Humanities Council of Grand Rapids, Cascade Library, Grand Rapids, MI, 9:30 am

March 27: Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, MI, 7:00 pm

Februay 8: Books and Books, Coral Gables, FL, 8:00 pm,

February 7: Brazos Books, Houston, TX, 6:00 pm

February 6: Odyssey: The Essential School, Sea-Tac, WA

February 6: Seattle Public Library, High Point, Seattle, WA, 6:30 pm

February 4: Powell's Books, Portland, OR, 7:30 pm

January 31 - Feb. 2: AWP Conference, New York, NY

 

Other news


Stealing Buddha's Dinner named a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book as well as a finalist for the Asian American Literature Award

Stealing Buddha's Dinner named a Michigan Notable Book

Chicago Tribune: Stealing Buddha's Dinner among Best Books of 2007
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-071215-bestbooks,0,5883431,full.story

Christian Science Monitor: Stealing Buddha's Dinner among "The 2007 Books We Liked Best": http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1204/p15s01-bogn.html

Saveur Magazine: Stealing Buddha's Dinner among Top Ten Reads of 2007: http://www.saveur.com/techniques/cookbook-reviews/top-ten-reads-21017489.html

Stealing Buddha's Dinner was a Book Sense pick in 2007.

NBC Weekend "Today" named Stealing Buddha's Dinner one of "10 Books to Snuggle up with This Winter" (2007)

 

Stealing Buddha's Dinner on Radio/TV


"All Things Considered" on NPR

The Leonard Lopate Show

Kojo Nnamdi Show

Essay, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Tastebuds Atlanta

Satellite Sisters

 

Some Readings & Events - 2007

 

September 27: Fall for the Book Festival, George Mason University

August 30: Reading for "All Freshman Read," Hope College

June 13: Ropewalk Writers Retreat

June 9-10: Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair

May 11: Vietnamese Library Association Launch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 pm

April 29: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books , UCLA Schoenberg Halll, 11: 30 am. Memoir Panel with Mark Doty, Emily Rapp, Clancy Sigal, and Orli Low

April 19: Writers Center of Indiana "Gathering of Writers"

February 22: San Francisco - Book Passage, Corte Madera, 1 pm

February 21: Berkeley - Cody's Books, 7 pm

February 20: Los Angeles - Vroman's, 7 pm

February 19: Seattle - Elliott Bay, 7:30 pm

February 17: Ann Arbor - Shaman Drum, 7 pm

February 15: Grand Rapids, MI - Schuler Books, 7 pm

February 13: New York - Barnes & Noble, Chelsea, 7 pm

February 11: Washington, DC - Politics & Prose, 1 pm

February 6: Chicago - Border's, Michigan Avenue, 7 pm

January 30: Purdue University, 7:30 pm