Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
The Episcopal Academy
1785 Bishop White Drive
Newtown Square PA 19073
484-424-1400
New York, NY
Sunday Salon Reading Series
Bread Loaf ‘From The Dark Tower’ Reading in NYC!
March 21st, 2010
7 pm
Jimmy’s Small Stage
43 on 7th St.
between 2nd/3rd Ave.
(Subway: 6 to Astor Place. Walk east to 2nd Avenue then south to E. 7th Street, east to the theatre)
I will be reading with Charles Rice Gonzalez, Emily Raboteau, Reginald Dwayne Betts & Nina McConigley
Drew University, NJ
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Creative Writing Program & Womens’ Studies
Reading Series
Drew University
36 Madison Avenue
Madison, New Jersey 07940,
973-408-3000
Contact: Wendy Kolmar - wkolmar@drew.edu
Details: TBA
Denver, CO
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
April 7th - 10th, 2010
Friday, April 9th, 2010
Room 106 @ the Colorado Convention Center
Noon - 1.15pm
700 14th Street, Denver, CO, 80202
Phone: (303) 228-8000
Panel: Writing South Asia—Issues of Representation and Identity. Samrat Upadhyay, Rishi Reddi, Anis Shivani, Gemini Wahhaj, Oindrila Mukherjee and I discuss the way in which writers from South Asia have taken the Western literary world by storm and how this recent popularity gives rise to new challenges. How do you represent contemporary South Asia in authentic, original ways and stay commercially viable? How do you write for a Western and a regional audience at the same time? How do you balance the political and aesthetic? Come hear writers of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, Sri Lankan, and Indian origin read and discuss their fiction.
Friday, April 9th, 2010
9pm - Midnight
Women in Letters & Literary Arts (WILLA) Goes Live
Denver Press Club
There will be a performance by Burlesque Performers: Vivienne VaVoom & Cora Vette, both of Black Box Burlesque followed by readings by thirty-three writers including Cheryl Strayed, Antonya Nelson, WILLA founders Cate Marven and Erin Belieu, and myself.
Orlando, FL
Friday April 16th and Saturday, April 17th, 2009
International Book Festival
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
Washington, DC
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
10 - 11. 30 am
Asian American Literary Review Symposium
University of Maryland
Ulrich Recital Hall,
Tawes Hall, University of Maryland
College Park
Readings by me and Peter Bacho Discussion to follow.
The day-long events include readings bySonya Chung, April Naoko Heck, and fellow advisory editors, Kyoko Mori, and Karen Tei Yamashita
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
10-11:30am; 11:30-12:00pm
Montgomery College
Human Rights Arts Festival
Round table discussion that folds in questions from the audience moderated by Terry Hong from the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program.
New York, NY
May 21st, 2010
6-8pm
Reading & Discussion
Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street,
between Fifth and Madison.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Through the Girls Write Now program, curated by Maud Newton.
TLC Author Blog Tour
Monday, August 17th: Jenn’s Bookshelf
Tuesday, August 18th: Worducopia
Thursday, August 20th: My Friend Amy
Monday, August 24th: Maw Books
Tuesday, August 25th: Lost in Books
Thursday, August 27th: Bibliophile by the Sea
Tuesday, September 1st: A Sea of Books
Tuesday, September 8th: Wordlily
Monday, September 14th: Shhh I’m Reading
Wednesday, September 16th: Savvy Verse and Wit
Thursday, September 17th: Ticket to Anywhere
Tuesday, September 22nd: Musings of a Bookish Kitty
Thursday, September 24th: Fizzy Thoughts
Monday, September 28th: Book Addiction
Wednesday, September 30th: Caribousmom
Chicago, IL
June 11-14, 2009
Chicago
Kriti Festival
Saturday, June 13
10.00-10.45am
Reading from A Disobedient Girl
Roosevelt University, Room 310
430 S. Michigan Ave
(also reading Nitin Deckha & Manisha Sharma)
4:00 - 4:50p.m.
Panel: Politics and Writing (Moderated by Lakshmi Rengarajan of SAPAC, with Mary Anne Mohanraj, Ru Freeman, Deepak Unnikrishnan, Rishi Reddi, Manisha Sharma & Romesh Gunasekera)
Roosevelt University, Room 320
6:00 - 6:45p.m.
Panel: Selling Your First Book (with Tania James, Sheba Karim, Ru Freeman, Minal Hajratwala & V.V. Ganeshananthan)
Roosevelt University, Room 320
New York, NY
South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA)
Convention
Friday, July 10th @ CUNY
Saturday, July 11th @ Columbia University
Chestnut Hill Book Festival, PA
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
1.00 - 3.00 pm
Lemons & Limes
8133 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19118
Phone: 215-242-3080
Email: lemonsandlimes2007@comcast.net
NYC Book Launch & Reception
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
6pm
Embassy of Sri Lanka
630 3rd Ave
New York, NY 10017-6705
(212) 687-8898
by invitation only
New York City
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
7 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
86th & Lexington Ave
150 East 86th Street
New York, NY
212-369-2180
Wynnewood, PA
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Author Event
3 p.m.
Borders Books & Music
80 East Wynnewood Road
Wynnewood, PA 19096
(610) 642-0362
Bryn Mawr, PA
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
7 p.m.
Borders Books & Music
1149 E Lancaster Ave
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
(610) 527-1500
Click think-globally-poster for a look at the terrific book covers! I will be reading with my good friends Josh Weil, author of The New Valley, Rachel Pastan, author of Lady of the Snakes, Lise Funderberg, author of Pig Candy, Jim Zervanos, author of Love Park, and Elizabeth Mosier, author of My Life as a Girl.
Ripton, VT5
August 9th - 23rd
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Waterville, ME
Monday, August 24th, 2009
5 - 7 pm
Children’s Book Cellar
52 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
(207) 872-4543
kidsbookscellar@verizon.net
Camden, ME
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
August 25th
Maine Literary Festival Event
Cross-cultural Experiences: Literature of New Voices in America
Reading Room, Camden Public Library
44 Main Street
Camden, ME 04843
Tel: 207.236.3440
Doylestown, PA
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
First Friday Event: September 4th
Doylestown Bookstore
16 South Main Street
Doylestown, PA 18901
Tel: 215-230-7610
Fax: 215-230-7613
Jamaica Plain, MA
Friday, September 11th, 2009
7pm
Jamaicaway Books
New England’s only multicultural bookstore!
676 Centre St
(between Burroughs St & Seaverns Ave)
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 983-3204
Newtonville, MA
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
2pm
Newtonville Books
296 Walnut Street
Newtonville, MA 02460
Boston, MA
Monday, September 14th, 2009
7pm
Grub Street
160 Boylston Street,
Boston, MA 02116
tel: 617.695.0075
Email: info@grubstreet.org
I will be appearing with two friends, Rishi Reddi (Karma & Other Stories) and Rakesh Satyal (Blue Boy), to read from our work and speak on a panel.
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
7.30pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
824 West Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010
610.527.4008 x 109
Email: Info@BrynMawrFilm.org
BMFI will screen the amazing documentary, Who Does She Think She Is? by Academy-award winning film maker, Pamela Tanner Boll, about five women who “refuse to make a choice between mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art.” The artists are Janis Wunderlich, Angela Williams, Camille Musser, Maye Torres and Mayumi Oda.
I will speaking on and moderating the panel to follow, when four local artists will discuss the value of a creative life, the compromises that are made and those that are refused. The panel will include ceramic artist Jill Bonovitz, dancer Laura Katz Rizzo, and essayist Kathy Stevenson.
Sunday Salon, New York City
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
7pm
Sunday Salon Reading Series
Jimmys
Seventh Street Small Stage
43 on 7th St.
between 2nd/3rd Ave.
(Subsway: 6 to Astor Place. Walk east to 2nd Avenue
then south to E. 7th Street, east to the theatre)
I will be reading along with Billy Lombardo, Wesley Yang, and Cheryl Burke.
Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
6 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
1805 Walnut Street
Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 665-0716
Think Globally, Read Locally comes downtown! I will be reading with my good Rachel Pastan, author of Lady of the Snakes, Lise Funderberg, author of Pig Candy, Jim Zervanos, author of Love Park, and Elizabeth Mosier, author of My Life as a Girl.
Camden, NJ
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
7.00 - 8:00pm
MFA Reading Series & Reception
Stedman Gallery
Rutgers-Camden
101 Cooper Street
Camden, NJ
Click here for more information and a write up about my fellow-reader, Jane Allison.
KGB, New York City
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
7.00 pm
Sunday Fiction Series
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
New York City, 10003
And if you want the real story behind the forming of this incredible space, from Denis Woychuck, click that link.
Boston
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Four Stories Reading Series
The Enormous Room
7-9pm (music starts @ 6)
569 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
(Central Square, Red Line subway stop)
I will be reading at the fabulous Four Stories Boston event “Conspicuous Consumption: Stories of eating, shopping, spending, taking.” Featured readers include Erica Ferencik, (Cracks in the Foundation), Tracy McArdle, (Confessions of a Nervous Shiksa and Real Women Eat Beef), and Amy Yelin, (Boston Globe Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Gettysburg Review, and Literary Mama; and recipient of a notable essay mention in the Best American Essays 2007)
San Francisco, CA
Friday, October 16th, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Books, Inc. in Mountain View
301 Castro Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
650-428-1234
Contact: Rob Garcelon, Sandy Chargin or Nadine Orzechowski
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
East of Here: Stories from “Dangerous” Lands
LitQuake 2009
San Francisco
South Asian & Arab Writers Rock LitCrawl
Bollyhood Café, 3372 19th
Authors from the Middle East, South Asia, and Afghanistan shed light on the clash of cultures, religions, and societies, both here and there.
Curator: Soumeya Bendimerad
Ru Freeman, Shilpa Agarwal, Elmaz Abinader, Tamim Ansary, Shanthi Sekaran
Washington, DC
South Asian Literary & Theater Arts Festival (SALTAF)
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
10 - 5.30 pm
Baird Auditorium
National Museum of Natural History
10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
I am delighted to participate in the 6th annual SALTAF, alongside Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders and Kamila Shamsie, author of Burnt Shadows.
Chicago, IL
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
4.30 pm
Author Event
Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60640
Tel: 773.769.9299
wcfbooks@aol.com
Monday, November 16th, 2009
9.30 am
Oakton Community College
International Education Week
Keynote Speaker
847-376-7118
schuster@oakton.edu
Location: 1604 DPC
Washington, DC
January 8th, 2009 12 Noon
Speaker Series
State Department
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Monday, January 25th, 2010
4.30p.m.
American Center
44 Galle Road
Lecture: “Emigrating, Immigrating, and Writing,” followed by Q&A
The event is free and open to the public. Those wishing to attend should email Glen Davis at DavisGS@state.gov so their names may be added to the access list. There is limited parking available.
Galle, Sri Lanka
28th - 31st, January, 2010
Galle International Literary Festival
Friday, 29th January, 2010
Hall de Galle
10 - 11 a.m.
Panel: “Who Do You Think You Are?”
I will speaking with Michelle de Kretser, Gillian Slovo, Lal Medawattegedera and David Blacker about which stories we have chosen to tell about Sri Lanka and why. This session is free and open to the public.
Saturday, 30th January, 2010
4.45 - 5.45pm
Maritime Museum
Reading & Conversation
London, UK
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
9.30am
Rattansi and Ridley Show, SKY 515
Current Affairs programme
Location: HMS President, River Thames
5.15 - 7.00pm
Event with Reading Group at St John’s Library
Contact: Amy Crouch
Learning Support Librarian
St John’s Wood Library
20 Circus Road
London
NW8 6PD
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
11.30 – 12pm
Interview with BBC World/The Strand interview
BBC Bush House, Strand, London WC2
1 p.m.
Interview with BBC Asian Radio interview with Nikki Bedi
Roz Hutchinson to accompany.
TV Centre,West London
“A thrilling debut: Ru Freeman has given us a wonderfully bold and determined protagonist in a richly drawn, complex, fascinating story. I loved it.”— Lynn Freed, author of The Servants' Quarters.