Event Program
THALIA BOOK CLUB
GISH JEN: THANK YOU, MR. NIXON
WED, FEBRUARY 23
READING
Cindy Cheung
DISCUSSION
Gish Jen and Jennifer Egan
A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUDIENCE
Join the conversation! Text your questions for Gish Jen to (304) 715-2537.
"Thank You, Mr. Nixon," by Gish Jen from Thank You, Mr. Nixon (Knopf, February 2022). Copyright (c) 2022 by Gish Jen. Used by permission of ICM.
The Artists
Gish Jen
Gish Jen's latest work, a collection of linked stories entitled Thank You, Mr. Nixon, was just published. The author of six works of fiction, including Typical American, Who’s Irish?, and The Resisters, as well as two works of nonfiction, she has appeared inThe Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; she delivered the William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University, and sits on the board of the MacArthur Foundation.
Gish Jen's latest work, a collection of linked stories entitled Thank You, Mr. Nixon, was just published. The author of six works of fiction, including Typical American, Who’s Irish?, and The Resisters, as well as two works of nonfiction, she has appeared inThe Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; she delivered the William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University, and sits on the board of the MacArthur Foundation.
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of seven books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. Her latest novel, The Candy House, will be published on April 5.
Jennifer Egan is the author of seven books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. Her latest novel, The Candy House, will be published on April 5.
Cindy Cheung
Cindy Cheung currently appears on season four of The Sinner as Stephanie Lam. Her television and film credits include The Flight Attendant, Billions, Thirteen Reasons Why, High Maintenance, FBI, Blindspot, The Good Fight, Blue Bloods, New Amsterdam, House of Cards, Homeland, Mistress America, Obvious Child, The Light of the Moon, The Sunlit Night, Children of Invention, Lady in the Water, and Robot Stories. On stage Cheung has been seen in Tiny Beautiful Things, Log Cabin, Iowa, The Great Immensity, Middletown, The Seagull, Antigone, The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, Sides: The Fear Is Real…, and her self-penned solo show, Speak Up Connie, directed by BD Wong for the All For One Solo Festival.
Cindy Cheung currently appears on season four of The Sinner as Stephanie Lam. Her television and film credits include The Flight Attendant, Billions, Thirteen Reasons Why, High Maintenance, FBI, Blindspot, The Good Fight, Blue Bloods, New Amsterdam, House of Cards, Homeland, Mistress America, Obvious Child, The Light of the Moon, The Sunlit Night, Children of Invention, Lady in the Water, and Robot Stories. On stage Cheung has been seen in Tiny Beautiful Things, Log Cabin, Iowa, The Great Immensity, Middletown, The Seagull, Antigone, The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, Sides: The Fear Is Real…, and her self-penned solo show, Speak Up Connie, directed by BD Wong for the All For One Solo Festival.
More Information
The Thalia Book Club is made possible thanks to the generous support of Susan Bay Nimoy, the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, The Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Michael Tuch Foundation, the Vidda Foundation, the Lemberg Foundation, and The Grodzins Fund. This program is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. nSymphony Space thanks our generous supporters, including our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members, who make our programs possible with their annual support.
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