Author Tour and Events for Almost Home by Githa Hariharan

We're proud to be publishing the acclaimed Indian author Githa Hariharan's book of travel essays, Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York. In a series of engrossing and politically charged essays, Hariharan explores some of the world’s most radiant—and radioactive—places, across both time and space. A great fan of Hariharan’s, J.M. Coetzee frames her book this way:

“In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world—Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi—trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.”

In Almost Home, Githa Hariharan offers a timely perspective on our post-colonial, rapidly globalizing world via some of its most contested places—Delhi, Mumbai, Kashmir, Palestine, Algeria, Tokyo, Washington, New York—posing the questions, to whom does a city belong, and what makes a place “home”?

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We're delighted that Githa will be touring the US this Spring. Catch her in person and pick up a copy of Almost Home at these events:

Author Tour and Events:

• March 22: “Mapping Asian American New York” with Meena Alexander and Peter Kwong at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College (New York, NY)

• March 23: “Reclaiming Home: Resisting Exclusion in India Today” at Rutgers (New Brunswick, NJ)

• March 24: In Conversation with Anjali Singh at McNally Jackson (New York, NY)

• March 25: “Narrating Contested Homes: Fiction and Real Life" at New York University (New York, NY)

• March 28: “Portraits of India” with Somini Sengupta at Asian American Writers Workshop (New York, NY)

• April 4: Indo American Arts Council and South Asian Journalists Association at Columbia University (New York, NY)

• April 7: Living Writers speaker series at UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)

• April 8: talk at UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)

• April 13: “Making Dreams Travel: Narrating Indian Women” at UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

Paquito D'Rivera Author Tour and events for Letters to Yeyito

We're thrilled to be publishing the legendary Cuban jazz impresario Paquito D’Rivera’s memoir, Letters to Yeyito: Lessons from a Life in Music. A force just as irrepressible on the page as on the stage, Paquito writes with vim and whimsy about his salad days in Havana, playing (and getting into trouble) with musicians ranging from Dizzy Gillespie to Yo-Yo Ma, and his exploits on- and off-tour during his long and brilliant career. Framed as a series of letters to a young aspiring musician (who, years ago, wrote to Paquito but left no return address), the book is also a guide for aspiring artists of all stripes. Print review copies are available on request.

on't miss your chance to catch Paquito on tour at one of his many events! 

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Author Tour and Events

• November 7: concert at Miami Dade College (Miami, FL)

• November 10: concert at Manship Theatre (Baton Rouge, LA)

• November 11: Banner’s Cultural Season concert at McNeese State University (Lake Charles, LA)

• November 13: concert with Arcadia Center for the Arts (Lafayette, LA)

• November 15: With Ilan Stavans at Miami Book Fair International (Miami, FL)

• November 21: “American in Paris”/"Cape Cod Concerto" at Palau de la Música (Barcelona, Spain)

• December 3: concert with the Vana Gierig Group (Luxembourg City, Luxembourg)

• January 7 - 10: Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta del Este (Punta del Este, Uruguay)

• January 17 - 24: The Jazz Cruise (Ft. Lauderdale; Puerta Plata; St. Thomas; St. Croix; Freeport)

• February 18: “Vintage Paquito D’Rivera” at Instituto Cervantes (New York, NY)

• February 27: Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (Miami, FL)

• March 3: Salute to Paquito D’Rivera at Tribeca Performing Arts Center (New York, NY)

• March 12: Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY)

• April 2: concert with Wooster Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Space (New York, NY)

• April 8: Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

• April 20: With WGBO host Michael Bourne and pianist Alex Brown at Yamaha Artist Services (New York, NY)

Changing the Diet of American Readers

Restless publisher Ilan Stavans has penned an editorial forPublishing Perspectives:

If the word “book” isn’t passé, then maybe the concept is. We are witnessing a dramatic change of reading habits. Though traditional books might be more marginal, people are reading more than ever: on our computers, on our phones, we live under a previously unimaginable deluge of words and opinions and information. This is a problem of abundance, not scarcity. What do we need to cut through the noise? Insightful, provocative reading about our convulsed and fragmented times. Ideas matter and ideas beautifully articulated matter even more. Good writing is also good thinking: to feel empathy toward someone who comes from a different environment is what human understanding is about. Writing is still the best way to reflect on those vital differences.

Reaching across cultures, across languages is thus essential. Translation is a remedy against the ostracism, against the apathy America often projects toward the rest of the planet.

Obviously, books are no longer simply bound volumes of paper. They are at the same time much more and much less—much more as they expand and travel the world at light speed, much less as their linguistic range and traditional market narrows. Let’s do something to change this and bring the same exuberance to world literature that we are bringing to digital literature.

Read the rest of the editorial here.