7pm, with Taymour Soomro (Other Names for Love), in conversation with Gish Jen
VIRTUAL EVENT! Virtual launch event for “Self-Portrait with Ghost” and “Gods of Want”
5pm PT / 8pm ET
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o8_-dRrISumXy5KhptMSpg
7pm - in store, in conversation with Anna Dorn
https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-meng-jin-presents-self-portrait-ghost
at The Ruby SF w/ Green Apple Books on the Park
in conversation with Mimi Lok
doors 7:00pm
Reading and discussion at Tufts University, Paige Hall, Crane Room. Presented by the Department of English and Asian American Studies. Moderated by Simon Han.
POWELL’S
1005 West Burnside Street / Portland, OR 97209
Family bonds are incredibly tight and often unbreakable. Three authors discuss the strength as well as turmoil that family ties provide.
Where:Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)
When:Sun, Mar 15, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Signing area:Sales & Signing Area - UA BookStore Tent (on Mall) (following presentation)
Genre:Fiction / Literature
Moderator:Carol Fitzgerald
Jean Kwok, Meng Jin and Therese Anne Fowler all come to Tucson with books featuring women leading lives far different than the ones they were probably born for. Each must wrestle with questions of who they are and who they should be.
Tickets:This is a ticketed event. Tickets are not available yet.
Where:Modern Languages Room 350 (Seats 318, Wheelchair accessible)
When:Sat, Mar 14, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Signing area:Sales & Signing Area - Central Mall (following presentation)
Genre:Fiction / Literature
Moderator:Cheryl House
Room 207, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am
with Mimi Lok, Rita Bullwinkel, Anita Fellicelli, Meng Jin
More and more writers are flouting the conventions of “realistic” fiction by incorporating surrealism, myth, horror, and black comedy into their narratives. Four writers of compellingly weird and weirdly compelling fiction discuss the fabulist writing that inspires them and how the reality of unreality allows them to push boundaries in their own work, dig deeper into the strange, fantastic, and absurd truths of female experience, and evocatively reflect how it feels to live in the world.
AWP OFFSITE EVENT
Debut-Palooza
with
Emma Copley Eisenberg / Kelli Jo Ford / Megan Giddings / Meng Jin / Megha Majumdar / Hilary Leichter / Sara Sligar / Mary South / Meredith Talusan
Not So Foreign So Foreign: Writing in More Than One Language.
(Simon Han, Meng Jin, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Xavier Navarro Aquino) Room 216A, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level.
For writers who publish primarily in English, reflecting a multilingual world can be a fraught process, traditionally involving the accommodation of English-only speakers. How are writers of English-language fiction and nonfiction today centering characters who speak and think in languages other than English? Drawing from questions of not only craft but also the personal and political, five panelists discuss their innovative approaches to incorporating multiple languages in their work.
Authors of Color Book Club
Jean Rhys said that "reading makes immigrants of us all," that "it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." Now more than ever, it's vital—and heartening—to read, and read widely. We'll read thrilling, mind-blowing, intriguing, heartbreaking, comic, strange, and/or provocative books by women of color—and, each month, we'll gather to talk about what we've read! When possible, we'll also have the writer join us.
Our March book is LITTLE GODS by Ruby member Meng Jin, and we’ll be joined by Meng herself!
*ticketed event - you must sign up to attend
In conversation with Melissa Cistaro, the bestselling author of the award-winning memoir Pieces of My Mother (US edition) and the Canadian bestseller Without My Mother (HarperCollins Canada). Melissa mentors writers and teaches memoir writing workshops in the Bay Area and internationally.
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS
with Shruti Swamy and Sunisa Manning
https://www.ebbooksellers.com/event/meng-jin-little-gods
East Bay Booksellers
5433 College Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
7pm
January's Writers With Drinks features the long-awaited second novel by Charles Yu, plus acclaimed debut author Meng Jin. Plus sex and feminism, science fiction, and poetry, and tons more. We're going to turn all your bodily fluids into bodily druids!
When: Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM
Who: Charles Yu, Meng Jin, Tracy Clark Flory, Aaron Glantz, Juliette Wade and Barbara Tomash
How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
KSW PRESENTS
with Mimi Lok, author of LAST OF HER NAME
1246 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103
$8
Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok-tickets-89621445155
RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/kearny-street-workshop/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok/506049583359244/
KRAMERBOOKS
In conversation with Kat Chow
1517 Connecticut Avenue NW / Washington, DC 20036
https://kramers.com/meng-jin-little-gods
HARVARD BOOK STORE
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome MENG JIN—Kundiman Fellow and Harvard alumna—for a discussion of her debut novel, Little Gods. She will be joined in conversation by acclaimed local novelist, CLAIRE MESSUD.
http://www.harvard.com/event/meng_jin/
1256 Massachusetts Avenue / Cambridge, MA 02138
52 Prince Street / New York, NY 10012
Every act of imagination is political in some way; some works address political history directly. How can the political enrich a work of fiction, and how can fiction enrich politics? What are the politics of writing about politics? Join novelists Meng Jin and Gina Apostol as they read from their recent books and talk about the pleasures and pains of tackling recent tumultuous political history in fictional work, in a conversation moderated by Nur Nasreen Ibrahim.
https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/women-writers-talking-politics-meng-jin-gina-apostol-and-nur-nasreen-ibrahim-prince-street
BOOKS ARE MAGIC
In conversation with Catherine Chung
225 Smith Street / Brooklyn, NY 11231
RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/books-are-magic/meng-jin-little-gods-w-catherine-chung/457215231596604/
BOOKS INC. (OPERA PLAZA)
In conversation with Rachel Khong
601 Van Ness Avenue / San Francisco, CA 94102
meng jin writes sentences.