I will be talking with Cecilia Skidmore on The Open Mind on WGVU Radio today and next Sunday. Her program complements a national PBS series called Women, War and Peace. Listen in to the streaming broadcast online, or download the segment at your convenience.
The show airs in Grand Rapids, MI at 7:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Sundays.on WGVU-FM 88.5 and 95.3.
Link is here.
The finalists for this year’s Asian American Literary Award in non-fiction this year are:
A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb by Amitava Kumar (Duke University Press Books)
The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
Come to the third annual Page Turner Festival, hosted by the Asian American Writers Workshop for a day of readings and panels, and a night of celebration and awards. Check out the link above for updates!
PAGE TURNER
Saturday, October 29, 2011, 11am – 7pm
POWERHO– USE ARENA, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
$5 per event / $20 all day pass / $30 all-day pass (w/ AFTERWORD party)
This weekend, to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, I will be speaking and reading from Hiroshima in the Morning at the Japanese American National Museum. The program starts at 2 pm. The museum, if you have never been there, is beautiful and features the names of former internees of the WWII relocation centers – including my mother’s, grandparents’ and great uncles’ – etched in the glass.
Come join me, and please pass the word along! Reservations are apparently encouraged, but that doesn’t mean it is too late!
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL M– USEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
phone: 213.625.0414
When making a reservation, e-mail [email protected] or call 213.625.0414 at least 48 hours prior to the event.
“Are we so naïve as to think that we can bring peace to the world through words? Yes we are. What else do we have?”
– Elie Weisel
Hiroshima in the Morning has been nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, “the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace.” This year’s nominees include Nelson Mandela, Isabel Wilkerson, Kai Bird, and Siddhartha Mukherjee, among many other gifted writers. It’s an amazing honor to be nominated, and to be on any list that also has Nelson Mandela on it.
Wish me luck. Take a look at the list and read the books!