Second half
Part Two of The Open Mind interview with Cecilia Skidmore is now on line. Download and listen to both here.
Today on the Open Mind
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.
Asian American Literary Award Finalist
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)
Off to LA
There have been, in the last weeks, so many things to do: speeches to write, visuals to prepare, plane trips that require me to be patted down and my bags unpacked and gone through by hand because my books and my computer cord in my carry-on are so close together in the x-ray screening that the entire line was nearly shut down to deal with the threat that is me. But now I am on my way to Los Angeles – five airborne hours – with nothing but the present moment. I can read the book I brought – Amy Waldman’s The Submission – for nothing but pleasure. I can daydream. I have been preoccupied with what to say to an audience I cannot yet see and whom I have not met. But to decide so far in advance what I should offer them and what they need to hear is to constrain the future. To predetermine it and make it less than it might otherwise be. I am not an historian, or an expert, or even an advocate. I am an artist, and a witness, and so I have decided to lecture less and engage more. To be in the moment when it comes. Wish me luck.
September 10th at the Japanese American National Museum
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.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
“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!