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Meet Rachel DeWoskin, author of Repeat After Me, a novel about a young American ESL teacher, a troubled Chinese radical, and their unexpected New York romance, at the Center for Fiction, Mercantile Library of New York on Wednesday, September 30th at 7pm. Rachel will appear on a program with fellow writers Katie Kitamura and Nancy Mauro.
Rachel DeWoskin was educated at Columbia and Boston University. In 1994, she moved to Beijing, where she worked in public relations before taking a starring role in a hugely successful Chinese soap opera. Her acclaimed first book, Foreign Babes in Beijing, has been published in five languages and is currently being developed as a feature film by Paramount Pictures. In addition to her two books, Rachel's essays and poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Seneca Review, Nerve Magazine, Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and Teachers & Writers Magazine. The recipient of an American Academy of Poets Award in 2000 and a Grolier Poetry Prize in 2002.
Margaret Black of Critical Pages review's Rachel DeWoskin's debut novel Repeat After Me: "Four years ago, Rachel DeWoskin bounced onto the literary scene with a funny, insightful memoir about a time just out of college when she worked for a PR firm in Beijing. Much to her surprise and delight, she was cast to play the part of an American temptress in what became a wildly popular Chinese TV soap opera called Foreign Babes in Beijing. While DeWoskin’s book touched on many serious subjects, the plot of the soap opera and her hilarious experiences while filming were what swept readers along.
In Repeat After Me, DeWoskin has boldly sought to transmute her knowledge of China and her very considerable writing talent into fiction, this time by confecting a cross-cultural love story between Aysha Silvermintz, a very troubled young American English teacher in New York City, and Da Ge, an an irritable, volatile young pupil, whose father has sent him away from Beijing to protect him from the fallout of the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989.
DeWoskin has down pat the many confusions and surprises of cross- cultural difference and misunderstanding, but she also succeeds in making them individual. The author has assembled a rich collection of characters, most of them beautifully realized. More than a love story about a man and a woman, Repeat After Me is really a paeon to friendship among women and to an ideal of family ties, manifest in this story between Aysha, her mother, her daughter, and Da Ge’s father. The novel may lack the humor of Foreign Babes, and it avoids all the political threat that was just under the surface of that memoir, but it’s a well-told complex story of interesting people."
Meet Rachel DeWoskin, reading and signing from her new novel Repeat After Me, at Barnes & Noble at Boston University, 660 Beacon Street, Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at 7pm. (617-267-8484).
Rachel will also be in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 16, at Books-A-Million, 11 Dupont Circle N.W. (2pm), and on Wednesday, June 24, at Barnes and Noble, 82nd & Broadway, NYC (7pm).
Rachel DeWoskin spent her twenties in China as a consultant, writer, and the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera called “Foreign Babes in Beijing.” Her memoir of those years,
Foreign Babes in Beijing, has been published in six countries and is being developed as a feature film by Paramount Pictures. Her new novel
Repeat After Me, is about a young American ESL teacher, a troubled Chinese radical, and their unexpected New York romance. Rachel has a BA in English from Columbia and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. Her first collection of poems, called
The Caretaker’s Daughter, is about girls (including her) in the Missouri Ozarks. Rachel lives in NYC and Beijing.
BEA is here and The Overlook Press is ready, set, go. We're throwing a party tonight for the photo exhibition and book launch of Allan Tannenbaum's New York in the 7os - pics will be posted if you can't make it. On Friday through Sunday, you can meet and greet us at Booth 3552 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. Meet Rachel DeWoskin, author of Repeat After Me at our booth on Friday (5pm) and at a Saturday Autographing Session (12:30-1pm). Meet the lovely and talented Overlook Editor Juliet Grames at the Indie Buzz Editor's Panel on Saturday at 11am; and Amy Foster, author of the forthcoming When Autumn Leaves at the Downtown Stage on Saturday at 3:30pm, and at the Overlook booth at 5pm.
Rachel DeWoskin, author of the new novel Repeat After Me, is interviewed in today's Shelf Awareness "Book Brahmin" column:
On your nightstand now: Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. These are all books I'm teaching right now in my memoir class at New York University, so I'm joyfully re-reading them. And Yu Hua's new novel, Brothers, is also next to the bed, first on my end-of-the-semester list.
Favorite book when you were a child: Charlotte's Web. My mom read that to me hundreds of times. I have a visceral memory of hearing it for what must have been the 200th time when I was a little kid on an overnight train across China. And although I couldn't have articulated this then, that book was America for me, was home--animals, ice cubes, fireworks, fairs. It was so familiar and comforting that it encompassed my entire country and culture. All the colors and words and feelings I knew best.
Your top five authors: Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov and Annie Proulx.
Book you've faked reading: Oooh. I pretended to have read Moby Dick for 10 years until I finally read it (which took me approximately another 10 years).
Book you are an evangelist for: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson. Let me propagandize/count the ways. It is the most original book I've read. It boils over with brilliance and slays me each time I re-read it, which I do at least twice a year since I include it on every syllabus I teach, no matter what the genre, semester, student population or school. Autobiography of Red is a shimmering everything--history, love story, poem, novel, essay, biography, autobiography--it's academic, romantic, political, wildly imaginative and heart shattering. My students weep, shout, sit stunned and silent, fight, analyze, memorize, imitate and then write their best work either about or because of it--consistently.
Book you've bought for the cover: Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware. Have you seen that cover? It has as much work in it as most books manage in their 300 pages . . . not to mention that the story is epic, graphic and staggering.
Book that changed your life: Angle of Repose. Wallace Stegner's writing let me understand time.
Favorite line from a book: Probably Nabokov's "Fill up the page, Printer." (From Lolita.)
Book you most want to read again for the first time: The Brothers Karamazov. The first time I read that, I sat clutching it for hundreds of pages at a time until my eyes spiraled. I took irritating breaks to eat and sleep briefly before racing back in. Fun!
Rachel DeWoskin will launch her book tour for Repeat After Me on Thursday, May 14 at Idlewild Bookstore, 12 W. 19th Street (nr 5th) in Manhattan. Join us for the Launch Party at 7pm!
May 19th, 7:30pm, Bookslut Reading Series, HOPLEAF, 5148 N. Clark, second floor, CHICAGO.
May 20th, 6 pm, 57th STREET BOOKS, 1301 East 57th Street, CHICAGO
May 21st, 7pm, WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST, 5233 N. Clark St., CHICAGO
May 28th, 7pm, SHAMAN DRUM, Harlan Hatcher Grad Library Gallery Rm 100, ANN ARBOR
May 29th, 4pm, BEA Overlook Booth #3552, Javits Center NYC
May 30th, 12:30-1:00pm, BEA Autographing Area, Javits Center NYC
June 9th, 7 pm, BARNES & NOBLE, Boston University, BOSTON
June 16th, 2pm, BOOKS-A-MILLION, 11 Dupont Circle N.W., WASHINGTON DC
June 24th, 7pm, BARNES & NOBLE, 82nd & Broadway, NYC
Rachel DeWoskin, author of the forthcoming Repeat After Me (May 2009) is reading her poetry tonight at Boston University along with Robert Pinsky and Charles Simic.
The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!
ROBERT LOWELL MEMORIAL LECTURES
Celebrating the Legacy of Room 222
A reading by CHARLES SIMIC
with ROBERT PINSKY and RACHEL DEWOSKIN
Thursday, February 19, 2009 / 7:30 p.m.
Boston University Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary's Street, Room 206
Reception and Book Signing to Follow. Hope to see you there!
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Rachel DeWoskin, author of Foreign Babes in Beijing and the forthcoming Repeat After Me, was recently featured in Publishers Weekly's cover story, "The Second Time Around." Tom Rob Smith profiles ten authors who are coming out with their second books, including Rachel DeWoskin, who will be publishing her first novel Repeat After Me in May.
Born: Kyoto, Japan; now lives in Manhattan.
Favorite authors: Anna Akhmatova, James Baldwin, Alison Bechdel, Anne Carson, Emily Dickinson, Tony Kushner, Annie Proulx, Leo Tolstoy, Chris Ware.
Career arc: “Received Hello Kitty! diary. Wrote poems. Read. Wrote. MFA. Taught, wrote, addressed, stamped. Fat rejection folder.”
Plot: Aysha is a 22-year-old New Yorker, teaching English to foreigners and putting her life back together after a nervous breakdown when Da Ge, a young Chinese student, walks into her classroom. Their exhilarating romance offers a glimpse of life and loss between languages.
Author's toughest challenge: “Spending decades in the bat cave revising is often a horror for me. But beautiful books, writers and my students keep me engaged. Writing lines is fast work; getting them right takes a lonely forever. When the words say just what I mean to have said—I'm ecstatic.”
Publisher's pitch: “Funny, irreverent, and touching, Repeat After Me is a manic story of love and misunderstanding, of fantasies and frenzied cities,” according to publicist Francesca Sacasa. “A prize-winning poet, DeWoskin is a sharp new voice among female writers: witty without being dry, emotionally stirring without being sentimental.”
Opening lines: “I met Da Ge on a Tuesday afternoon in the fall of 1989. New York was orange and confident then, leaves breezing the curbs and towers poking above the skyline. I was teaching English as a second language when he arrived two weeks and fifteen minutes late.”
Rachel DeWoskin, author of Foreign Babes in Beijing and the forthcoming novel Repeat After Me (Overlook, July 2009), will be reading poetry on December 4th at 7:00 at the Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, in New York. $5 suggested donation at the door. Book signing and reception follow the reading. For this special Writers Studio event , Rachel will be joined by special guest readers Robert Pinsky and Tom Sleigh.
Meet Rachel DeWoskin, author of Repeat After Me, a novel about a young American ESL teacher, a troubled Chinese radical, and their unexpected New York romance, at the Center for Fiction, Mercantile Library of New York on Wednesday, September 30th at 7pm. Rachel will appear on a program with fellow writers Katie Kitamura and Nancy Mauro.
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