Sabina Murray's guest appearances

Sabina Murray

The Drum: A Literary Magazine For Your Ears

Rothermere American Institute

AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & Literature

Matthew Salesses

James Joyce

Rahul Mehta

Will Harris

Andrew Marvell

Fatimah Asghar

Yiyun Li

Charles Yu

Kamila Shamsie

Mariam Ghani

Daniel Davis

Vivian Lee

Andrew Sullivan

Sadia Shepard

Akhil Sharma

OwlTail

Gina Apostol

Gina Apostol’s latest work of fiction, Insurrecto, is a tour de force about about the Philippines’ past and present told through rivaling scripts from an American filmmaker and her Filipino translator. The book was one of the New York Times’ Editor’s Choices for 2018 and won comparisons to Nabokov and Borges for its kaleidoscopic structure. With her trademark wit, uncommon humor, layering of forgotten histories and dueling narratives, Gina tells the story of the atrocities that faced Filipinos who rose up against their colonizers during the Philippine-American war at the turn of the 20th century. Gina Apostol reads from Insurrecto and then is joined by Filipina-Australian writer Sabina Murray, author of the novel Valiant Gentlemen. Together they discuss weaving together nonlinear narratives, the uselessness of white guilt, Duterte reprising the role of the American colonizer in the Philippines through violence, and much more. Featuring the songs Ang Lupa ang Dahilan &amp; Agit Speech by Material Support, a Filipina-fronted agit punk band from New York City, agitated by state repression, government corruption, and patriarchy. Watch the event on our YouTube Channel!

Gina Apostol’s latest work of fiction, Insurrecto, is a tour de force about about the Philippines’ past and present told through rivaling scripts from an American filmmaker and her Filipino translator. The book was one of the New York Times’ Editor’s Choices for 2018 and won comparisons to Nabokov and Borges for its kaleidoscopic structure. With her trademark wit, uncommon humor, layering of forgotten histories and dueling narratives, Gina tells the story of the atrocities that faced Filipinos who rose up against their colonizers during the Philippine-American war at the turn of the 20th century. Gina Apostol reads from Insurrecto and then is joined by Filipina-Australian writer Sabina Murray, author of the novel Valiant Gentlemen. Together they discuss weaving together nonlinear narratives, the uselessness of white guilt, Duterte reprising the role of the American colonizer in the Philippines through violence, and much more. Featuring the songs Ang Lupa ang Dahilan &amp; Agit Speech by <a href="https://materialsupport.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Material Support</a>, a Filipina-fronted agit punk band from New York City, agitated by state repression, government corruption, and patriarchy. Watch the event on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoyxUuYZNKw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube Channel</a>!

Insurrecto & Filipinx Resistance ft. Gina Apostol & Sabina Murray

Sabina Murray's "Balboa" imagines the explorer in 1513 as he climbs a ridge on the Isthmus of Panama and sees the Pacific Ocean. "Balboa," Murray writes from the explorer's point of view, "is that divining line between the modern and the primitive." In this story, from her collection Tales of the New World, Murray investigates the meaning of civilization, discovery, and the foreign, and makes us consider the intersection of power and desire.

Issue 26. July 2012 : SABINA MURRAY Balboa