Panel Discussion/Talk

LOA LIVE: Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen

Wednesday, May 18, 2022
6 – 7PM

Beginning with her stunning 1976 memoir The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston has forged a profound, richly imagined, and genre-defying narrative of the American experience from her vantage point as the daughter of Chinese immigrants. To mark publication of the new Library of America edition, Kingston joins Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, editor of the volume and her former student, for an intimate conversation about her life and work.

There will be a brief Q&A at the end of the program; you will be able to type a question and submit it to the event moderator.

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We thank our promotional partners: The Asian American Arts Alliance; Asian American Writers Workshop; the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW); Bamboo Ridge Press; International Women’s Writing Guild; Singapore Unbound; University of Southern California English department; the Writers Guild Foundation.

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Library of America, a nonprofit organization, champions our nation’s cultural heritage by publishing America’s greatest writing in authoritative new editions and providing resources for readers to explore this rich, living legacy.

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