Bhakti Shringarpure
Food, memory and travel in Monique Truong's novels
Born in Saigon, Monique Truong came to the US as a refugee in 1975, and talks frequently about how this formative experience of displacement enters her work. Very often this is through food and food metaphors, as the titles of her novels suggest.
Bhakti Shringarpure
Radical Book Talk 3: Greg Pierrot and Chelsea Stieber!
July 21, 2021: Grégory Pierrot, the author of Decolonize Hipsters (OR Books & Warscapes) talks to scholar and writer Chelsea Stieber about hipsters and their long history of appropriation of Black music and fashion, and investment in colonialism and capitalism. More importantly, Pierrot and Stieber ask if we can really decolonize them.
Bhakti Shringarpure
Radical Book Talk 2: Mohamedou Slahi and Bhakti Shringarpure
June 2, 2021: Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga (Ohio Swallow Press) and Guantánamo Diary (Little Brown) talks to Bhakti Shringarpure about composing a novel that captures the beauty, silence and wonder of the Sahel desert in Mauritania.
Bhakti Shringarpure
Radical Book Talk 1: Nathalie Etoke and Bhakti Shringarpure
May 11, 2021: Nathalie Etoke, the author of Shades of Black (Seagull Books) sits down with Bhakti Shringarpure, co-founder of the Radical Books Collective to discuss histories of slavery, colonialism and race as they impact the Black populations the world over.
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