The Misadventures of Anti-Heroes
Where: Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 W. 27th St., 6th Floor
212-494-0061 Price: $5 suggested donation
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A lonely spinster marries a ghost. A live-at-home son writes dispatches from his basement. A laid-off techie tries his hand at doctoring day laborers without a license. These are the tales of antiheroes, itinerant workers and gender refugees in Tania James, Rajesh Parameswaran, and Xu Xi’s newest short story collections. Xu Xi, “a pioneer English-language writer” (The New York Times), chronicles the gaffes of women who just can’t seem to hit their stride in Access: Thirteen Tales. Tania James’s sophomore album Aerogrammes tells the funny and cringe-inducing accounts of missed connections. It’s a great follow-up to her debut novel Atlas of Unknowns, described by Junot Díaz as “wise and hilarious.” Promising newcomer Rajesh Parameswaran deploys dark wit of Lennie Small-proportions in I Am an Executioner: Love Stories, in which infatuated tigers playfully maul zookeepers to death and everyone’s part of the secret police. Parameswaran’s stories “combine narrative brio, ringing voices and beguilingly looped plots,” remarks The New York Times. Join us for an evening of fleeting encounters, what-ifs, and missed connections as Xu Xi, Tania James, and Rajesh Parameswaran explore the universal yearning to be human–whether animal, lost traveler, or outsider.
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