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LET'S TALK ABOUT THE NEW
GOLD DIGGERS!
Art
Forum SF presents Virtually SALA (South Asian Literature &
Arts),
live series episode 4, on September
23,
2021, | 8:30 PM PST.
IN CONVERSATION WITH SANJENA SATHIAN,
an award-winning author
with moderator Chaitali Sen, an author.
Sanjena
Sathian is the author of the novel GOLD DIGGERS, published in April
2021 by Penguin Press, which she is currently adapting for television with
Mindy Kaling's production company Kaling International. She is a graduate of
the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. She has
also worked as a journalist in San Francisco and Mumbai.
Her award-winning short fiction appears in Conjunctions, Boulevard, Joyland,
Salt Hill, and The Master's Review. In addition, she's written nonfiction for
The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco
Chronicle, Food and Wine, The Boston Globe, The Juggernaut, The Millions, OZY,
and more.
She has taught creative writing to high school, college, graduate, and
post-graduate level students in Iowa, Alaska, and New Zealand, and last year
founded the Bombay Writers' Workshop.
"Sanjena
Sathian's debut
novel GOLD DIGGER is a magical realist coming-of-age story; Gold
Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story
about immigrant identity and community and the underside of ambition. A work of
24-karat genius."
— Ron
Charles, The Washington Post
Chaitali Sen is the author of the novel, The Pathless Sky, and short
stories and essays published in Boulevard, Catapult, Colorado Review,
Ecotone, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, New Ohio Review,
Shenandoah, and other publications. As the winner of the 2021 Mary
McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, her story collection A New Race of
Men from Heaven is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in January
2023. She lives outside of Austin, Texas, with her family.
"Sanjena Sathian's debut novel tackles that elusive
but universally desired feeling of belonging — in one's body, family,
community, and history — through an inventive and intelligent plot (a heist
involving alchemy). Just as Kanye's "Gold Diggers" permeated the
airwaves and came to invoke the early aughts, I hope that readers and writers
alike will come to regard Sathian's "Gold Diggers" as a fresh and
magical take on the American dream."
— Jahanvi Pendarkar, Lawyer, Los Latos California
Art Forum SF strives to define and promote all
art forms emerging from South Asia. Art Forum SF endeavor to present the
visual, the literary, and the performing arts in their various versions, thus
promoting a more extensive reach for South Asian voices.
In these "uncertain times," Art Forum SF moves to host
the Virtually SALA Series 2021 with featured talks through the year till it is
safe to assemble in a festival setting. Watch Virtually SALA Live Series,
Episode 2 on Facebook: www.facebook.com/southasianartforumsf and YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/artforumsf
Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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