Podcasts about red azalea

Episode 66! Marc and Trevor discuss a post about literary "red flags" - do you have any books that if someone owns or is into it's a dealbreaker? Marc read "Red Azalea" by Anchee Min and Trevor read "Childhood's End" by Arthur C Clarke. The owls are not what they seem.

Aug. 30, 2014. Anchee Min appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Chinese-American writer Anchee Min has written several historical fiction novels and two memoirs, including the international best-seller "Red Azalea," a text that follows her time growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Her second memoir, "The Crooked Seed: A Memoir" (Simon & Schuster), picks up on her story of immigration to America, where she became immersed in the American Dream without the language, money or clear direction -- aside from her plan to work hard and study art in Chicago - needed to achieve it. Though Min left the labor camps and her deprived life in China with high hopes, "The Cooked Seed" reveals the significant challenges, physical and emotional, that she faced in America. This memoir recalls Min's powerful journey to selfhood and the positive formations of a successful career and a loving family that she eventually built through her strength and perseverance. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6435

A performative reading and talk, from the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid whose new novel- the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime-is based on the life of Pearl S. Buck.

Author Anchee Min has won acclaim for her memoir of growing up in China under Mao Zedong. She’s also written several works of fiction in which she explores the human hunger to survive against extreme social brutality. In this conversation, Anchee Min tells us what she learned about the human spirit in the forced labor camp in which she spent her teenage years, and how she’s found healing in America.

Anchee Min has recently published the second book in her fictional account of the last Chinese imperial court and its empress. In her personal story and in her writing, Anchee Min offers a window into spiritual instincts and experiences that mark a rapidly evolving China into the present. See more at onbeing.org/program/surviving-religion-mao/181

This program includes readings and discussion among writers in exile from their native countries. Majid Naficy, an Iranian poet who fled Khomeini's regime at great risk, has lived in Los Angeles since 1985. He has published three collections of poems and holds a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA. Chinese novelist Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where talent scouts discovered her and recruited her to work as a movie actress at the Shanghai Film Studio. Her memoir Red Azalea, about life during the Cultural Revolution, was an international bestseller. SAID, born in Tehran in 1947, was forced to leave Iran at age seventeen, and has lived in exile in Munich, Germany since 1964. His publications include Poems of Love, Then I Will Scream Until Silence, and his most recent work, The Long Arm of the Mullahs: Notes from My Exile.This program was co-presented with Villa Aurora and produced in conjunction with the exhibition "Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler" at LACMA.