Bruce Humes is the translator of The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian, as well as the bestseller Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui and other works. He is an American literary translator and critic of Chinese literature, specializing in non-Han Chinese authors.
Chi Zijian is the author of The Last Quarter of the Moon, which received the Mao Dun Literary Award, the highest honor for a novelist in China.
Join Caroline Harper New at Literati Bookstore for a reading and discussion about her collection A History of Half-Birds.
Join Priyanka Kumar at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, where writers from Alaska and beyond come together to create community and learn how to be better writers.
Join at PLAYA for this 4-night writing retreat exploring the Poetry of Birding led by best-selling author Priyanka Kumar. Through guided birding excursions to observe migratory birds in the Summer Lake Wildlife Area, bring your observations back to meditative discussions in our workshop circle. Here, participants will integrate birds and poetry, beginning with Seamus Heaney’s “St. Kevin and the Blackbird,” and travel back through the ages to the lone hut of the master of Chinese nature poetry. Create nature poems of your own inspired by local field trips observing spring migration in Summer…
Join Scott Chaskey for a talk on his book Soil and Spirit, where he will share wisdom from his decades of building community through agriculture on Long Island—including starting the first CSA in New York state!
On Wednesday, January 24, at 4:30pm, at the West Tisbury Library, author Scott Chaskey will read from his newly released book, Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life.
Books will be available for purchase and signing by Bunch of Grapes Bookstore. This event is presented by the MV Agricultural Society, Slough Farm, and the West Tisbury Library. Free and open to the public.
On the first day of the new year, we received an exciting and somewhat extraordinary message confirming that one of our books, The Quickening by Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Rush, is now available in the Little Free Library at the South Pole! For us, the announcement is cause for celebration, as well as gratitude and reflection. We are humbled by the ways in which The Quickening has made waves in the world. And what book could be a better fit for the South Pole’s collection than this one, whose apt subtitle is Creation and Community at the Ends of…
