Anne A. Cheng's first book of personal essays, Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority, will be released on Sept. 10, 2024, and beginning soon after, Cheng will make appearances at book stores and other locations including the Museum of Modern Art and Princeton.
With Labyrinth Books, the Department of English is cosponsoring Cheng's Nov. 13 Princeton event.
The events place Cheng in conversation with figures whose work and experience variously relate to the lenses both intimate and political that Cheng brings in Ordinary Disasters to what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today.
Ordinary Disasters Princeton and New York City schedule
Sept. 2024 through Feb. 2025 in-person events
| Date/Time | Locations and Moderators |
|---|---|
Thursday, Sept. 19 7 PM | New York, NY Moderator: Kevin Lozano, The Nation |
Thursday, Oct. 3 6 PM | New York, NY In conversation with Jia Tolentino and Cathy Park Hong |
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 4:30 PM | Princeton University Moderator: Beth Lew-Williams, Professor of History |
Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 Time TBA | Brooklyn, NY Moderator: Iris Moon, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024 6 PM | Princeton, NJ Moderator: Richard Preston, Author |
| Thursday, February 13, 2025 | New York, NY Contact: Jennifer Lee, Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology |