Ben Huh is the mastermind behind the Lolcats phenomenon. As the CEO of Pet Holdings, he runs I Can Has Cheezeburger? and grew it into the global purveyor of absurd cat humor that we know and love today. The book based on the site I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun has spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times' paperback best-seller list. Allergic to cats himself, Ben's ability to pick which memes to popularize has made him a cultural icon. Pet Holdings now includes the popular Failblog, Pundit Kitchen, and Engrish Funny among its repetoire.
David Lat is the founder of
Above The Law, the most prominent blog about the legal industry. He first gained notoriety as the writer Article III Groupie on the judicial gossip blog Underneath Their Robes. An assistant U.S. attorney at the time, he quit his job after he revealed his blogging identity and became a writer for Wonkette. In addition to writing for Above The Law, he manages Breaking Media's blogs and writes for newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the New York Observer, Washingtonian Magazine, and New York Magazine.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$15 admission; open to the public
Come hear the diverse voices in the only English language anthology by Pakistani women published in the United States: Humera Afridi and Fawzia Afzal-Khan.
Co-sponsored by Asia Society
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public
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From José Rizal to José Garcia Villa: An Introduction to Philippine Literary Greats
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We invite you to an afternoon of readings in celebration of Philippine culture and two literary heroes who brought the Philippine experience to the public. Harold Augenbraum, Luis Francia, and Dorian Merina read and discuss the writings of José Rizal and José Garcia Villa.
Noli Me Tangere, the powerful and controversial novel by José Rizal (1861-1896), takes place during the Spanish occupation and tells the story of a young man's return to the Philippines from Europe. The novel was banned for its critical view of the clergy, and Rizal was later executed for his seditious views. His courageous voice earned him the respect of the Philippine community, and he is now celebrated as a Philippine national hero.
A reading from Noli Me Tangere and a discussion of Rizal's life and works will be given by Harold Augenbraum and Dorian Merina. Augenbraum will also read from his own translation-in-progress of El Filibusterismo, the sequel to Noli Me Tangere. Harold Augenbraum is Executive Director of the National Book Foundation and the translator of The Penguin Classics edition of Noli Me Tangere. Dorian Merina is the author of The Changegiver and Stone of the Fish, and a spoken word CD, Heaven is a Second Language. The short film, "MIGRATIONS," for which he wrote and recorded the poetry, was awarded the 2008 Poetry Foundation Award.
José Garcia Villa (1908-1997) is considered the most important Asian American writer of the mid-twentieth century. Known as the Pope of Greenwich Village, he has been placed among the modern literary legends such as W.H. Auden and Tennessee Williams. Edith Sitwell has praised him as, "a poet with a great, even astounding, and perfectly original gift. . . . The best of his poems are among the most beautifully written in our time."
Luis Francia will read and reflect on Villa's poetry. A well-known writer himself, Francia will also read from his own book, Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, a semiautobiographical account of a life straddling the American and Philippine cultures, which was awarded the Pen Center Beyond the Margin Award and The Asian American Writers' Workshop Literary Award in 2002.
@ The Queens Library, Woodside
54-22 Skillman Avenue
Woodside, NY 11377
FREE
Romesh Gunesekera and Tania James
Novels of heartbreak and folly. Gunesekera reads from The Match and James from Atlas of Unknowns.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public
Joe Tsujimoto and Xu Xi
The power of place. Tsujimoto reads from his memoir Morningside Heights: New York Stories and Xi from her book of essays Evanescent Isles: From My City-Village.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public
Second Annual Bryant Park Reading: Sesshu Foster, Adrienne Su, and Vijay Seshadri.
Join us for three critically acclaimed poets at Word For Word Poetry at the Bryant Park Reading Room.
@ Bryant Park Reading Room
(btwn 5th & 6th Avenue, adjacent to the James Earl Dodge monument)
FREE and open to the public
Ching-In Chen, Minal Hajratwala, Kim-An Lieberman, and Nahid Rachlin
Crossing borders and genres. Nonfiction writers Hajratwala and Rachlin read from Leaving India and Persian Girls. Poets Chen and Lieberman read from their collections The Heart's Traffic and Breaking The Map.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public
(AC)2: The First Annual Asian American ComiCon
A celebration of the unique contemporary role and historical legacy of Asian American comic artists, featuring the writers and editors of Secret Identities, the first-ever graphic novel anthology of Asian American superhero stories. Come join us at the newly renovated Museum of Chinese in America for this landmark event.
@ Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
215 Centre Street, New York
$25 admission; $15 students/MOCA members/Workshop members
Family Saturday
Parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles bring your young ones to a day of children's book readings, craft activities, and delectable treats.
Location TBA
Flash Fiction - Tara L. Masih and Shouhua Qi
Come hear contributors from the The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, an unprecedented collection of essays on flash fiction.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public
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