Neelanjana Banerjee's guest appearances

Neelanjana Banerjee

Clockshop

Past Forward

Jeff Goins

Pico Iyer

Joel Arquillos

Sarah Gerard

Bill Pierce

Nick Cole

Michael Walsh

Michael Shermer

David Carlson

Annabelle Gurwitch

Aaron James

Leigh Stein

Michael Lee

Janine Vangool

Garth Greenwell

OwlTail

Anelise Chen

[gallery columns="1" link="none" size="full" ids="32551,32550,32549,32548,32547,32546"] A live recording of our educational podcast The How, The Why with Neelanjana Banerjee, Anelise Chen and Q.M. Zhang.  Neelanjana Banerjee is the Managing Editor of Kaya Press; assistant editor with the Los Angeles Review of Books; instructor with artworxLA and Writing Workshops Los Angeles; journalist; co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press); and writer whose works have appeared in anthologies such as Desilicious (Arsenal Press), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India), and Breaking the Bow: Speculative Stories Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan Books), as well as in numerous magazines and journals such as PANK Magazine, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and Asian Pacific American Journal. Anelise Chen is the author of So Many Olympic Exertions (Kaya Press 2017), an experimental novel that blends elements of sportswriting, memoir, and self help. She hails from Temple City, California, and received a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, NPR, BOMB Magazine, The New Republic, VICE, Village Voice and many other publications. She has received fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and she will be a 2019 Literature Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. She currently teaches writing at Columbia University and writes a column on mollusks for The Paris Review. Q.M. Zhang (Kimberly Chang), author of Accomplice to Memory (Kaya Press 2017), grew up in upstate New York, lived in China and Hong Kong, and currently makes her home in Western Massachusetts.  She is a writer and teacher of creative non/fiction stories and forms, with a focus on Chinese American border crossings.  Trained in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology, she has published ethnographic studies of Asian diasporic communities on both sides of the Pacific.  Faced with the limitations of her social science tools, she has worked over the last decade to develop herself at the craft of creative non/fiction as the quintessential hybrid literary form for writing about migration and diaspora.  She is an alumni of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and was a resident writer at the Vermont Studio Center.  Her book, Accomplice to Memory, combines memoir, fiction, and documentary photographs to explore the limits and possibilities of truth telling across generations and geographies.  An excerpt from the book was published in The Massachusetts Review.  She currently teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Moderator: Julianne Berokoff Guests: Anelise Chen and Q.M. Zhang Audio: Brew Sessions Live Photo: Arthur Pham      The How, The Why is a half-hour podcast documenting the creative process and the creative purpose hosted by Jon-Barrett Ingels. This free weekly series is an educational resource provided to discuss the evolution of literary arts with industry innovators—authors, journalists, and publishers.

[gallery columns="1" link="none" size="full" ids="32551,32550,32549,32548,32547,32546"] A live recording of our educational podcast The How, The Why with Neelanjana Banerjee, Anelise Chen and Q.M. Zhang. Neelanjana Banerjee is the Managing Editor of <a href="http://kaya.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kaya Press</a>; assistant editor with the <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Los Angeles Review of Books</a>; instructor with <a href="http://artworxla.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">artworxLA</a> and <a href="http://www.writingworkshopsla.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Writing Workshops Los Angeles</a>; journalist; co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (<a href="http://www.uapress.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">University of Arkansas Press</a>); and writer whose works have appeared in anthologies such as Desilicious (<a href="http://www.arsenalpulp.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Arsenal Press</a>), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (<a href="http://harpercollins.co.in/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">HarperCollins India</a>), and Breaking the Bow: Speculative Stories Inspired by the Ramayana (<a href="http://zubaanbooks.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Zubaan Books</a>), as well as in numerous magazines and journals such as PANK Magazine, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and Asian Pacific American Journal. Anelise Chen is the author of So Many Olympic Exertions (<a href="http://kaya.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kaya Press</a> 2017), an experimental novel that blends elements of sportswriting, memoir, and self help. She hails from Temple City, California, and received a BA in English from <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">UC Berkeley</a> and an MFA in Fiction from <a href="http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/cwp.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">NYU</a>. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">NPR</a>, <a href="https://bombmagazine.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">BOMB Magazine</a>, <a href="https://newrepublic.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The New Republic</a>, <a href="https://www.vice.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">VICE</a>, <a href="https://www.villagevoice.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Village Voice</a> and many other publications. She has received fellowships from the <a href="http://aaww.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Asian American Writers’ Workshop</a>, the <a href="https://wurlitzerfoundation.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Wurlitzer Foundation</a>, and she will be a 2019 Literature Fellow at the <a href="http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/residency/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany</a>. She currently teaches writing at <a href="https://www.columbia.edu" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Columbia University</a> and writes a column on mollusks for <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Paris Review</a>. Q.M. Zhang (Kimberly Chang), author of Accomplice to Memory (<a href="http://kaya.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kaya Press</a> 2017), grew up in upstate New York, lived in China and Hong Kong, and currently makes her home in Western Massachusetts.  She is a writer and teacher of creative non/fiction stories and forms, with a focus on Chinese American border crossings.  Trained in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology, she has published ethnographic studies of Asian diasporic communities on both sides of the Pacific.  Faced with the limitations of her social science tools, she has worked over the last decade to develop herself at the craft of creative non/fiction as the quintessential hybrid literary form for writing about migration and diaspora.  She is an alumni of the <a href="http://www.umass.edu/juniperinstitute/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Juniper Summer Writing Institute</a> and was a resident writer at the <a href="http://vermontstudiocenter.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Vermont Studio Center</a>.  Her book, Accomplice to Memory, combines memoir, fiction, and documentary photographs to explore the limits and possibilities of truth telling across generations and geographies.  An excerpt from the book was published in <a href="https://www.massreview.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Massachusetts Review</a>.  She currently teaches at <a href="https://www.hampshire.edu" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Hampshire College</a> in Amherst, MA. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Moderator: Julianne Berokoff Guests: Anelise Chen and Q.M. Zhang Audio: Brew Sessions Live Photo: Arthur Pham     The How, The Why is a half-hour podcast documenting the creative process and the creative purpose hosted by Jon-Barrett Ingels. This free weekly series is an educational resource provided to discuss the evolution of literary arts with industry innovators—authors, journalists, and publishers.

Neelanjana Banerjee, Anelise Chen, and Q.M. Zhang

Today our podcast connects with Neelanjana Banerjee, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge; Managing Editor of Kaya Press; assistant editor with the Los Angeles Review of Books; instructor with artworxLA and Writing Workshops Los Angeles;  journalist; co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press); and writer whose works have appeared in anthologies such as Desilicious (Arsenal Press), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India), and Breaking the Bow: Speculative Stories Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan Books), as well as in numerous magazines and journals such as PANK Magazine, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and Asian Pacific American Journal. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Neelanjana Banerjee

Today our podcast connects with Neelanjana Banerjee, 2016 <a href="http://1888.center/tplp/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Plaza Literary Prize</a> Judge; Managing Editor of <a href="http://kaya.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kaya Press</a>; assistant editor with the <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Los Angeles Review of Books</a>; instructor with <a href="http://artworxla.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">artworxLA</a> and <a href="http://www.writingworkshopsla.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Writing Workshops Los Angeles</a>; journalist; co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (<a href="http://www.uapress.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">University of Arkansas Press</a>); and writer whose works have appeared in anthologies such as Desilicious (<a href="http://www.arsenalpulp.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Arsenal Press</a>), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (<a href="http://harpercollins.co.in" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">HarperCollins India</a>), and Breaking the Bow: Speculative Stories Inspired by the Ramayana (<a href="http://zubaanbooks.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Zubaan Books</a>), as well as in numerous magazines and journals such as PANK Magazine, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and Asian Pacific American Journal. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Neelanjana Banerjee

Laurie Penny

UK journalist Laurie Penny has been covering the 2016 presidential campaign through a feminist lens with dark wit and an eye toward her native country’s alarming Brexit vote last summer. On January 10, 2017, Penny was joined in conversation by Neelanjana Banerjee, managing editor at Kaya Press, to discuss misogyny, sexism and female flesh under capitalism. This event was co-presented with Women’s Center for Creative Work.Suggested reading:“Against Bargaining” Laurie Penny, The Baffler, November 18, 2016“I’m With the Banned” Laurie Penny, Medium, July 21, 2016“What Women Problem?” Laurie Penny, Medium, July 18, 2016Clockshop’s Counter-Inaugural is a series of talks addressing the misogyny, hate speech, and climate change denial that dominated the 2016 presidential campaign. This event was recorded by Rounak Maiti.

UK journalist Laurie Penny has been covering the 2016 presidential campaign through a feminist lens with dark wit and an eye toward her native country’s alarming Brexit vote last summer. On January 10, 2017, Penny was joined in conversation by Neelanjana Banerjee, managing editor at Kaya Press, to discuss misogyny, sexism and female flesh under capitalism. This event was co-presented with Women’s Center for Creative Work. Suggested reading: “Against Bargaining” Laurie Penny, The Baffler, November 18, 2016 “I’m With the Banned” Laurie Penny, Medium, July 21, 2016 “What Women Problem?” Laurie Penny, Medium, July 18, 2016 Clockshop’s Counter-Inaugural is a series of talks addressing the misogyny, hate speech, and climate change denial that dominated the 2016 presidential campaign. This event was recorded by Rounak Maiti.

Counter-Inaugural: Laurie Penny with Neelanjana Banerjee