Su Tong, Man Asian Literary Prize winning author of THE BOAT TO REDEMPTION will be appearing this week in conjunction with The Inaugural Asian Arts & Ideas Forum (November 3-6), bringing together established and emerging writers, thinkers and performing artists from China and India to engage in a vital cultural dialogue. Through one-on-one conversations, panel discussions and music performances, The Chindia Dialogues explore the role that literature and the arts have played — and continue to play — in the shared values and interests that link two of Asia’s most influential nations, but also to America and the rest of the world. Su Tong will be appearing on the following panels:
Saturday, November 5th (3:30-4:30 pm): Literature of Migration: Where Do the Birds Fly?
Which journey is the longest: the one from the village to the city, or the one from one country to another? And how has migration in China and India, from managerial elites to contract workers and refugees, transformed notions of citizenship, identity, displacement and “home”? Writer Amitava Kumar leads readings and a discussion on migrants of all kinds with poet and activist Meena Kandasamy (Ms. Militancy), Suketu Mehta (Maximum City), Su Tong (The Boat to Redemption), and Murong Xuecun (Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu).
Sunday, November 6th (1:00-2:15 pm): The 'Chindia' Readings
Authors Su Tong, Ha Jin, Meena Kandasamy, Amitava Kumar, Sharmistha Mohanty, Allan Sealy, Yu Hua, and Xu Xiaobin read from their work. Hosted by Amitava Kumar.
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By: John Mark Boling,
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By: Annie Beth Ericsson,
on 11/2/2010
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As I’ve mentioned before, this year is a great time to join the Penguin team – it’s the 75th anniversary of the classic paperback publisher. Since (of course!) I feel that Penguin’s greatest strength is its design and branding philosophy, I wasn’t going to miss the chance to hear about it from some of the best creative brains in the company at last Thursday’s AIGA panel.
First of all, can I just say that AIGA kicked off the event with some hilarious and heavily-accented (do those two things go together?) moderators! Board member Matteo Bologna, founder and president of Mucca Design Corporation, introduced Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich, an amazing book designer and creative director in his own right. You may know him as the creator of the children’s book Bembo’s Zoo (don’t miss the amazing online version!), which always reminds me of the best Type II project anyone could produce. I mean, it’s the same concept as your standard “play with letterforms” exercise, but blows every student out of the water.
Anyway, Bologna and de Cumptich got the crowd warmed up for what would continue to be a very witty discussion on the process of book cover design.
The featured guest of the evening was Paul Buckley, Executive VP and Creative Director of Penguin, not to mention editor of the featured Penguin 75 book. Aside from jokes about his former ’90s mullet and current “Penguin-esque” bald look, Buckley had some seriously enlightening things to say about the evolution of covers. Since Buckley was/is an illustrator as well (that’s his first love and original life plan), he’s passionate about integrating art and design, and pushing the limits of how the two can transform the surface of a book. Although he oversees hundreds of titles per year, you can still see his mark on the direction of new and old classics, such as the mind-blowingly AWESOME Penguin Ink series featuring tattoo artists.
Bridget Jones’ Diary, illustrated by
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