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Rachel Khong and Shruti Swamy in Conversation.
Celebrate Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month as the Berkeley Public Library hosts Rachel Khong in conversation with Shruti Swamy for a conversation at the North Branch. Books from both authors will be available, including the new paperback edition of The Real Americans by Rachel Khong.
Rachel Khong is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016, Rachel was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach, Rachel also edited a cookbook about eggs, called All About Eggs. In 2018, Rachel founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission district; Rachel retired at the end of 2021. Rachel's second novel, Real Americans, was published by Knopf in April 2024, and was an instant New York Times bestseller.
Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, and a novel, The Archer. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Elizabeth George Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Council, and Vassar College, and is a 2024 Rome Prize Fellow in Literature. Shruti’s work has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeny's, AFAR Magazine, and the New York Times, and twice won the O. Henry. Her introduction to Ursula K Le Guin’s masterpiece Always Coming Home appears in the novel’s 2023 reissue. She lives in San Francisco.
This event was funded by The Pace Family Trust.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Cultural & Heritage | Authors, Books & Writing |
