Monday Jan. 25, 2015 | 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Avenue 50 Studio | 131 North Avenue 50 Highland Park CA 90042 Come out to Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park to celebrate Sam Chanse’s satirical one-woman play, Lydia’s Funeral Video: set in a near distant future, devout bank clerk Lydia Clark-Lin has 28 days to terminate an […]
Monday, February 1, 2016, 8 PM Kearny Street Workshop (1246 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103) Mark your calendars, because Lydia’s Funeral Video will be launching in San Francisco in an unforgettable event! Join us and Kearny Street Workshop in February for a performance & discussion of Lydia’s Funeral Video with SAM CHANSE. Writer Claire Light will be joining in […]
The New Writing Series at the University of California, San Diego will be featuring Amarnath Ravva this week! Amar will be reading and talking about his debut book American Canyon, which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Awards. The event will be on Wednesday, December 2 at UCSD’s Visual Arts Presentation Lab (SME 149) at 4:30 pm, and […]
We recently interviewed Nicholas Wong, author of Crevasse, for our December issue of our newsletter. Check out his insights into the translation process, identifying as a “global poet,” what #LitinColor means in Hong Kong. What context—if any—would you give to readers before they delve into Crevasse? Especially for those who may not typically read poetry, how […]
Last Wednesday we celebrated Nicholas Wong & his poetry collection Crevasse at Stories Books & Cafe! Although Nic was in Hong Kong, the celebration was still a success. Zoë Ruiz hosted a reading in which Los Angeles writers Lisa Locascio, Douglas Manuel, Siel Ju, and Brandon Som gave moving readings of their favorite poems from Crevasse. These writers also wowed the audience with their own fiction and […]
The launch of Lydia’s Funeral Video in NYC was a fun night of conversation between Kaya authors, Sam Chanse and Ed Lin. Both authors’ sense of humor shines through the page, and at this event, they shone on the stage. The two covered many topics–from the influence of San Francisco on the play to the […]
