July 27 | Asha Thanki — A Thousand Times Before — at Conn Ave
Join us tomorrow, Saturday, July 27th for our partnership with Politics and Prose Bookstore. Asha Thanki will discuss her novel, “A Thousand Times Before” at 5pm. Asha will be in conversation with Matt Ortile.
Sweeping, deeply felt and intergenerational, "A Thousand Times Before" is a debut as poetic as it is propulsive, as healing as it is heartbreaking, as it examines what it means to carry our past with us and to pass it on. Rooted in a tender love story, and spun with a tremendous amount of care, this book is a rare, remarkable feat from an incredible new literary talent.
Asha Thanki received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Catapult, Hyphen, and more. She is the winner of the 2019 Arkansas International Emerging Writers Prize and fourth prizewinner of Zoetrope's 2020 Short Fiction Competition. A Kundiman fellow, Asha has received a Randall Kenan Scholarship at Sewanee Writers Conference, Fiction Scholarship with Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature.
Thanki will be in conversation with Matt Ortile, the author of the essay collection The Groom Will Keep His Name and the co-editor of the nonfiction anthology Body Language. He is an editor at Condé Nast Traveler, and was previously the executive editor of Catapult magazine and the founding editor of BuzzFeed Philippines. He has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and MacDowell; and has taught writing classes at Kundiman, PEN America, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is a graduate of Vassar College, which means he now lives in Brooklyn, where he is working on a novel.
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