Events/News

Literary Death Match

The Bell House, Brooklyn, 1/24, 7pm

with Roy Wood, Jr., Heben Nigatu, Akilah Hughes, Carson Kressley, Ashley C. Ford, Daniel Alarcón, & host Adrian Todd Zuniga

Dear Reader Live

ACE Hotel, Manhattan NY 1/29, 7pm

with other fellows/residents Tracy O’Neill, Alice Sola Kim, Jami Attenberg, Tyehimba Jess and Ioannis Pappos

https://www.acehotel.com/calendar/newyork/dear-reader-live-number-four

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AWP Conference

Washington DC 2/8-2/12

several panels and events (please see schedule)

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Hudson Valley Writers Resist

Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale NY 5/20 2pm

Porochista Khakpour is featured  in New York Magazine’s special immigrant portfolio issue.

Porochista Khakpour’s Prairie Schooner 2015 essay “Federer as Irreligious Experience” was selected by Jonathan Franzen as a “Notable” essay for the 2016 Best American Essays.

Khakpour is featured in TIME magazine (11/21/16) for her thoughts on art and activism under Trump.

Khakpour also joins fellow The Wing founding members on the cover of the Winter 2016 Domino Magazine.

Slice Literary Writer’s Conference
September 10, Room 6214 St Francis College Brooklyn, 4-5pm
Panel: “The Search for Great True Stories” 
with Anna deVries, Senior Editor, Picador; Mira Ptacin, Author, Poor Your Soul; Carrie Thornton, Editorial Director, Dey Street Books/HarperCollins
Moderator: Matthew Daddona, Associate Editor, Dey Street Books/HarperCollins

Visiting Writer, Vermont College of Fine Arts followed by Reading & Q/A with Trinie Dalton
February 12, 13 6:30-8 PM
ArtsRiot Burlington Vermont
http://vcfa.edu/…/writing-publishing-spring-2016-visiting-w…

WORD Bookstore + Volume 1 Brooklyn Clarice Lispector launch (Brooklyn NY August 27, 2015)

In celebration of the release of Clarice Lispector’s The Complete Stories, the collection’s editor and Lispector biographer Benjamin Moser discusses the author’s work with novelist Porochista Khakpour (The Last Illusion), presented by Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

http://www.wordbookstores.com/event/bk-vol-1-brooklyn-presents-porochista-khakpour-and-benjamin-moser-clarice-lispector

Slice Literary Writers Conference (Brooklyn, NY September 12, 2015):

Plus: Literary Jeopardy (Slice fundraiser)

http://www.slicemagazine.org/conferences/slice-literary-writers-conference/2015-jeopardy/

WORD Bookstore launch for Nikesh Shukla (Brooklyn NY September 15, 2015)

Nikesh Shukla presents his new novel, Meatspace, a “portrait of a bookish life lived in the brave new digital world.” The Last Illusion author Porochista Khakpour joins for a conversation.

http://www.wordbookstores.com/event/bk-nikesh-shukla-presents-meatspace-conversation-porochista-khakpour

Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn NY Sunday September 20 2015)

“Twisted Fables” panel, St Francis McCardle, 11am

Eileen Myles Poetry Project launch of I Must Be Living Twice & Chelsea Girls (New York NY Oct 7, 2015)

With Sam Ace, Jen Benka, Charles Bernstein, Stephen Boyer, Alex Chee, r. erica doyle, Megan Fernandez, Adam Fitzgerald, Mira Gonzalez, Emily Gould, Patricia Spears Jones, erica kaufman, Porochista Khapour, Ben Lerner, Elinor Nauen, Trace Peterson, Ariana Reines, Jill Soloway, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Waldman, Joe Westmoreland, and Simone White.

http://poetryproject.org/events/eileen-myles-launch-of-i-must-be-living-twice-new-and-selected-poems-1975-2014-and-reissue-of-chelsea-girls/

Lincoln Michel Powerhouse launch of Upright Beasts (Brooklyn NY October 9, 2015)

In conversation with Porochista Khakpour.

https://www.powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-upright-beasts-by-lincoln-michel/

“Reimagining the Shahnameh in Persian Literature” (Hester Hall Room 145, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma October 21 2015)

Lecture and discussion with by Iranian American novelist Porochista Khakpour

http://www.ou.edu/cis/sponsored_programs/iranian-studies-program/upcoming-events.html

Ubud Writers Festival in Bali (October 28-November 1)

http://ubudwritersfestival.com

John McManus Housing Works launch of Fox Tooth Heart (New York NY Nov 12, 2015)

In conversation with Porochista Khakpour.

http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/john-mcmanus-launches-fox-tooth-heart-with-porochista-khakpour-presented-by/?utm_source=bookstore_newsletter&utm_medium=email

A Kind of Compass anthology reading (New York NY Dec 1 2015)

http://www.mcnallyjackson.com

Conjunctions “Sleight of Hand” Deception Issue Release at Book Culture (New York NY Dec 3 2015)

with readings by Porochista Khakpour, Laura van den Berg, and Gwyneth Merner, introduced by editor Bradford Morrow.

http://writtenarts.bard.edu/events/event/index.php?eid=129629

• Sarah Jean Alexander
• Juliet Escoria
• Chelsea Hodson
• Porochista Khakpour
• Katherine Faw Morris

This event will take place at KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street, New York, NY), and will begin at 7:00 pm. Facebook RSVP here.

Sick: A Memoir has been featured in The New Yorker, Slate, Vogue The Cut, HuffPost, Vice Bitch Media, Women’s Review of Books, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Paper Mag, AV Club, Girlboss.com, Tin House, Pacific Standard, Brooklyn Digest, Brooklyn Fans, Berfrois, The Furious Gazelle, Longreads, and Punctuate, and has made Oprah.com’s Top Books of Summer, The Washington Post’s What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This Summer, The Boston Globe’s 23 of the Most Anticipated Book of 2018, Buzzfeed’s The 33 Most Exciting New Books of 2018, Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 and Best Nonfiction In June, Nylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 and 46 Great Books to Read This Summer, Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018, HuffPost’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018, Bitch’s 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018, Refinery29’s Best New Books to Read This Month, AV Club’s 5 Books to Read This June, The Rumpus’s What to Read When 2018 is Just Around the Corner, Esquire.com’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 (So Far), Autostraddle’s 65 Feminist & Queer Books to Read in 2018, The Millions’ Most Anticipated: The Great 2018 Book Preview, Vol.1 Brooklyn’s 23 for 2018: A Literary Preview for the Year to Come, Book Riot’s June 2018 Roundup, Fast Company’s June Must-Reads, The Coil’s Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2016, the Times Herald Record’s Summer Reading Roundup, Maine Public’s Summer Reads Roundup, Twin Cities Pioneer Press’ Summer Reads Roundup, Bestselling Books Today’s Roundup, Bookish’s Summer’s 2018 Must-Read Nonfiction, Black Nerd Problems’ Most Anticipated Books of 2018, Library Journal’s Celebrity Book Club, WOCreads’ 10 WOC Reads in June 2018, and Lit Celebrasian’s June Books by Asian Authors.

Khakpour was named one of Buzzfeed’s 32 Essential Asian-American Authors You Need to be Reading.

The Last Illusion made Electric Literature’s Into the Wild: A Look At Feral Children Running Through Recent Fiction

Khakpour and Katherine Dunn were in conversation (by Brian Gresko) for Slice Magazine this winter, reprinted in full for LitHub

The Last Illusion received a great review in The New Indian Express.

The Last Illusion received another great review in Fiction Unbound.

The Last Illusion was on io9.com’s “Mind-Blowing Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Watch Out For in 2015”

3/25 7pm, McNallyJackson NYC  Smith Henderson in conversation with Porochista Khakpour

4/4 TBA  Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City

4/11 AWP Conference in Minneapolis (panel on memoir with Marie Mockett, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Porochista Khakpour, Ellis Avery, Alysia Abott)

4/18 Spring Writer’s Conference at the William Paterson University of New Jersey (keynote plus workshop)

4/19 Los Angeles Times Book Festival (panel)

4/29 7pm McNallyJackson NYC  It’s The End of the World As We Know It: A Dystopian Fiction Panel (Porochista Khakpour, Emily St. John Mandel, Lincoln Michel, Shya Scanlon, Carola Dibbell–moderated by Jason Diamond and Rahawa Haile)

4/30, 6:30 Kingston, NY  Word Cafe  reading

5/5 NYC  2015 PEN Literary Gala

5/14 7pm NJ Montclair Art Museum “In the Wake of ‘Identity Politics'” panel held in conjunction with the exhibition Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s (Moderated by Huey Copeland, Associate Professor of the History of Art, Northwestern University; panelists include Rujeko Hockley, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum; Porochista Khakpour, writer; Simone Leigh, artist; and Soyoung Yoon, Assistant Professor of Art History and Program Director of Visual Studies, Department of the Arts, Eugene Lang College, The New School. )

Khakpour is a Contributing Editor at the newly launched http://theoffingmag.com, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. (The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions, but understands that to do so requires a rigorous understanding of those forms and conventions.)