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Chez Andrew
Andrew Lam is a NAM editor and author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" (Heyday Books, 2005), which recently won a PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
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In brief— Guests: Sonia Sanchez, guest host; Elizabeth Nunez, committee Winners: Richard Blanco (poet), Andrew Lam (essayist – Author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora) Ed Bok Lee (poet), Caryl Phillips (novelist)* and Jennifer Tseng (poet). Activities: Introductory comments; guest readers present selections of the winners’ works; winners join Sonia Sanchez for on-stage discussion of literature as definer, refiner and transformer of cultures; brief audience Q&A with the winners; closing comments. Reception to follow immediately after the event on the main floor of the library. In detail—On Monday, October 16, the 2006 Beyond Margins Award Summer (sponsored by the PEN Open Book Committee, which founded the award in 1999) will take place in midtown Manhattan, in the Auditorium of Donnell Library Center. This is NOT the Central Research Library—where the lionsare—but another of New York Public Library’s flagship libraries*.**it is, however, where the bear is: the original Winnie the Pooh, The October 16 event will be hosted by novelist Elizabeth Nunez who is Chair of PEN’s Open Book Committee, with poet Sonia Sanchez as guest host. Elizabeth will open the event with comments and introductions Novelist Russell Banks, poet/playwright/novelist Jessica Hagedorn and actress Lili Taylor (Factotum, Six Feet Under, I Shot Andy Warhol) will present your work during the first portion of the program (roughly, 7:15PM-7:50PM). |
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