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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 12h

"Kiran Desai’s Long-Awaited Return Is a Transcendent Triumph" (New York Times). Read the full review of Kiran Desai's "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" and don't forget to register for her upcoming program at LitFest 2025! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/...

Kiran Desai’s Long-Awaited Return Is a Transcendent Triumph

Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 15h

In 2006, Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize for "The Inheritance of Loss." After a near 20-year hiatus, "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" marks her glorious return—and it’s on the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist. Register today for her 2025 LitFest program on October 19!
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LitFest 2025: Love & Family, India & America, Tradition & Modernity with Booker Prize Winner Kiran Desai ("The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny") - City of Asylum

Booker Prize Winner Kiran Desai returns to City of Asylum to share her new Booker Prize Shortlisted novel during LitFest 2025.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 1d

There's still time to bid on goods from Northside sponsors, including The Children’s Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, and The National Aviary, in the Freedom to Create Raffle! Tickets are $5 each and sales are open until Sunday, 10/19, at 9 pm. Enter the raffle today at cityasylum.betterworld.org/

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City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating freedom of creative expression. We provide sanctuary to endangered writers and artists, so that they can continue to create and their voices are not silenced. We offer a broad ran

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 1d

10/19: Former ASL Poet Laureate of Allegheny County Mj Shahen hosts a night of ASL and Visual Vernacular performance with two Pittsburgh-based storytellers, Baltimore-based Deaf comedian NuNu Davis, and Washington, DC–based Deaf storyteller Lisa McBee! RSVP today!
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LitFest 2025: Poetry, Comedy & Storytelling in American Sign Language with NuNu Davis & Lisa McBee - City of Asylum

A night of Deaf storytelling and poetry with performers NuNu Davis, Mj Shahen and more, at City of Asylum's LitFest 2025.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 2d

"This gripping drama offers an intimate view into contemporary China’s class dynamics" (Publisher's Weekly). Read the full review of Zhang Yueran's "Women, Seated" and register today for the live discussion of the novel at LitFest 2025! www.publishersweekly.com/97...

Women, Seated by Zhang Yueran

A nanny for a powerful Beijing family wavers during a kidnapping plot in this suspenseful and layered novel from Yueran (Cocoon)...

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 2d

"World-Class Authors, Poets and Performers to Appear at City of Asylum’s LitFest," read the full article from "Pittsburgh Magazine" and reserve your tickets to LitFest 2025 today!
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World-Class Authors, Poets and Performers to Appear at City of Asylum's LitFest | Pittsburgh Magazine

The line-up on Oct. 18-19 in Pittsburgh includes MacArthur Genius winner Anne Carson, Deaf comedians, a translation slam and more.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 2d

Zhang Yueran’s "Women, Seated" details a powerful Chinese family’s fall from grace and a world of luxury and hidden secrets. On 10/19, editor Han Zhang and translator Jeremy Tiang discuss this literary phenomenon and the importance of translated literature. RSVP today! cityofasylum.org/program/li...

LitFest 2025: Bringing Chinese Literature to America with Editor Han Zhang (Riverhead Books) & Translator Jeremy Tiang - City of Asylum

Editor Han Zhang and translator Jeremy Tiang discuss Yueran Zhang's "Women, Seated" in a reading at City of Asylum.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 3d

Did someone say LitFest? See who's on this week at City of Asylum in the latest edition of the Alphabet City Marquee! 44048774.hs-sites.com/10-11...

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 3d

TODAY at City of Asylum Bookstore: it's the first-ever Books & Bistros Indie Book Fair! Swing by any time from 12-6 and join in the festivities! www.cityofasylumbooks.org/e...

City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 3d

10/18: Don't miss this reimagining of timeless classics "Antigone" and "Cassandra" with MacArthur Genius Anne Carson at LitFest 2025! Reserve your FREE in-person or livestream tickets today! cityofasylum.org/program/li...

LitFest 2025: Bringing the Classics to Today with MacArthur Genius Anne Carson ("Cassandra Float Can," "Antigonick") - City of Asylum

MacArthur Genius Anne Carson visits City of Asylum for a reading of "Antigonick" as part of their LitFest 2025 festivities.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 4d

We're raffling off goods and experiences from a handful of Northside sponsors, including The Children’s Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, The National Aviary, and more! Raffle tickets are $5 each, and sales are open until Sunday, 10/19, at 9 pm. Enter the raffle today! cityasylum.betterworld.org/

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City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating freedom of creative expression. We provide sanctuary to endangered writers and artists, so that they can continue to create and their voices are not silenced. We offer a broad ran

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 4d

This October 19, Indigenous authors Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Erin Marie Lynch, and Layli Long Soldier explore Indigenous language and translation as a means of both language preservation and play at LitFest 2025. Reserve your in-person or livestream tickets today! cityofasylum.org/program/li...

LitFest 2025: Indigenous Language Acts with Erin Marie Lynch, Julian Talamantez Brolaski & Layli Long Soldier - City of Asylum

Indigenous authors Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Erin Marie Lynch explore Indigenous language with Michelle Gil Montero.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 5d

This weekend at City of Asylum Bookstore: it's the first-ever Books & Bistros Indie Book Fair! Learn more and register for free today at www.cityofasylumbooks.org/e...

City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 5d

What's going on this week at City of Asylum Bookstore? Find out in this week's edition of Sliding Stacks! 44048774.hs-sites.com/10-09...

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 5d

In the mood for a cutthroat battle of wits? Look no further than City of Asylum's LitFest 2025 Translation Slam on 10/18! Mark Andryczyk, Dominique Hoffman, and Halyna Hryn will defend their translations of an essay in Ukrainian by Volodymyr Rafeyenko. RSVP at cityofasylum.org/program/li...

LitFest 2025: Translation Slam (Ukrainian) with Author Volodymyr Rafeyenko & Translators Mark Andryczyk, Dominique Hoffman & Halyna Hryn - City of Asylum

City of Asylum hosts a translation slam with author Volodymyr Rafeyenko and translators Mark Andryczyk, Dominique Hoffman, and Halyna Hryn.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 6d

This 10/18, City of Asylum welcomes trans and nonbinary poets Aaron El Sabrout, imogen xtian smith, and Julian Talamantez Brolaski to the garden for a poetry reading designed to help cultivate one’s own wilderness and reimagine ways of being. RSVP today at cityofasylum.org/program/li...

LitFest 2025: Trans/Nonbinary Ecopoetics in the Garden with Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Aaron El Sabrout & imogen xtian smith - City of Asylum

Poets Aaron El Sabrout, imogen xtian smith & Julian Talamantez Brolaski explore trans and nonbinary ecologies in a poetry reading.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 8d

10/18: LitFest 2025 welcomes Poet Yona Harvey and scholar Tahira J. Walker as they discuss their respective works and the intersection of history, community, marginalization, and resistance for Black women in Pittsburgh.
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LitFest 2025: Black Womanhood in Pittsburgh with Yona Harvey & Tahirah J. Walker - City of Asylum

Poet Yona Harvey and scholar Tahirah J Walker discuss Black Womanhood in Pittsburgh in this LitFest reading.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 8d

This October 8 at 7:00 PM, see City of Asylum Writers-in-Residence Rania Mamoun, Mukhtar Shehata, and Anouar Rahmani at Mt Lebanon Public Library for a reading highlighting Arab Voices.
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City of Asylum presents: Arab Voices | Mt. Lebanon Public Library

Join our friends from City of Asylum as we welcome a panel of Arab poets!

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 9d

10/18: Poet Yona Harvey and scholar Tahira J. Walker explore what it means to be a Black woman living in a city deemed most unlivable for them. The pair will discuss their respective works and the intersection of history, community, marginalization, and resistance.
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LitFest 2025: Black Womanhood in Pittsburgh with Yona Harvey & Tahirah J. Walker - City of Asylum

Poet Yona Harvey and scholar Tahirah J Walker discuss Black Womanhood in Pittsburgh in this LitFest reading.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 10d

See what's on this week at City of Asylum in the Alphabet City Marquee!
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THIS WEEK: Reel Q's 40th Film Festival & Story Club PGH

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 11d

City of Asylum's LitFest 2025 is right around the corner! Featuring artists such as Anne Carson, Kiran Desai, Tahirah J Walker, and Yona Harvey, tickets are going fast. View the full lineup and reserve your spot for the festivities today! cityofasylum.org/litfest-2025/

LitFest 2025 - City of Asylum

October 18 to 19, 50+ poets, authors, and translators visit City of Asylum Pittsburgh for their annual literary festival. FREE tickets!

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 16d

We are proud to share that the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission recently honored City of Asylum co-founder Henry Reese for his heroic defense of author Salman Rushdie when he was attacked in 2022. Read the full article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Co-founder of Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum honored for heroism in 2022 attack on author Salman Rushdie

The co-founder of a Pittsburgh nonprofit who helped defend author Salman Rushdie from an attacker in New York in 2022 has been officially recognized for...

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 18d

Don't forget to apply! Youth Poet Laureate applications close Tuesday, September 30, at 11:59 PM. Teens in Allegheny County with a passion for poetry and social justice, this opportunity is for you. For more info, visit cityofasylum.org/ypl

City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 21d

Change begins with the tiniest little matters.

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 22d

Whatever you think you can expect at this October's Story Slam, think again! Join us on 10/7 to explore the theme "The Unexpected" as a storyteller or a judge. RSVP at cityofasylum.org/program/st...

Story Club PGH Presents: Story Slam! (The Unexpected) - City of Asylum

Try though we might to plan for the future, something always comes up that we just didn’t see coming. This October, come ready to share (or judge!) stories tackling the Story Slam theme of The Unexpected.

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