https://www.onnesha.com/the-marginalized-majority daily 0.75 2021-04-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6033f7c36770537efee2c517/1614018619071/61NpPJOztLL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg The Marginalized Majority https://www.onnesha.com/otherwriting daily 0.75 2021-02-22 https://www.onnesha.com/events daily 0.75 2021-02-22 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603410e2bb7ca06c00026109/1614024940500/kingstonbanner.jpg Events & Trouble 08-23-2020 Can you believe there were no decorations prepared for a “Blue Lives Matter” rally slated to be held at a park here in Kingston? Don’t worry. We fixed it. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/60341618c3ea804f0e309aac/1614026276128/GotoHells.png Events & Trouble 10-30-2015 Upworthy gives my book, Go to Hells: An Updated Guide to Dante’s Underworld, some Halloween love. You can read the full article here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603415b1ed14f022849cd503/1614026171984/TheMoth.png Events & Trouble 03-02-2016 Pleased to announce that I’m now working as a teaching artist for The Moth’s amazing education program. I get to teach storytelling to high schoolers in NYC, and then watch them perform in StorySlams. Pretty much the sweetest gig. Read more here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/60341269b3a9bd1077782bc0/1614025342993/StarrBar.jpg Events & Trouble 03-04-2019 This Monday (3/4) at Starr Bar, 7-9 pm! We’re celebrating this Washington Post from the near future. Cocktails, free copies of the paper, and music from the brilliant Jean Rohe will be on tap. Co-creator of the paper L.A. Kauffman and I will talk about creating a Trump-less future in a convo moderated by paper contributor Sam Eifling. You should probably come because it will be a very very good time. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603413a27c0b4a4389e77c95/1614025641326/LitHub.jpg Events & Trouble 07-24-2018 “Like Most Americans, I Was Raised to Be A White Man,” one of the stranger and more personal excerpts from my book, is now available on LitHub! Hope you enjoy it along with the accompanying graphic which features me in three of my favorite outfits. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603419239774c63230b418de/1614027050887/RuletheWOrld.png Events & Trouble - 01-31-2011 The kid’s book that I contributed to (including a chart whereby one can concoct their own near-death survival story) was just published. Rule the World: 119 Shortcuts to Total World Domination is available here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603411ce7aacd44d16ae1fee/1614025206375/ViewfromSomewhere.jpg Events & Trouble 11-20-2019 Join me in celebrating the birth of Lewis Wallace’s vital book about objectivity and journalism, The View From Somewhere. Tonight, 7:30 pee-em at McNally Jackson in Willamsburg, BK. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/60341824c444474c51460248/1614026892042/OWS-10-19-11-COMPLETE-1-150x150.jpg Events & Trouble 10-21-2012 “Scenes from Occupied New York,” my essay on the Occupy Wall Street Movement, is in the first edition of n+1‘s Occupy! and is reprinted in the German book Occupy!. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/60341128db343d7f8973b5d9/1614025012281/KingstonRadio.jpg Events & Trouble 06-09-2020 Had a great time on Radio Kingston talking protest movements, mixed privilege, responding to people espousing garbage COVID theories, and knowing when it’s time to eat a popsicle and take a nap. Thanks for the great convo, Theresa Widmann! Listen here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034179de5d5944dda2c3482/1614026661336/Rumpus%2Blogo.png Events & Trouble - 07-31-2013 “Artifacts,” an essay about my family, the Newtown school shooting, and what happens when narrative fails us, is up on the Rumpus today. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603412a22a597102c3e410e3/1614025388489/NewYorkerIcon.png Events & Trouble 01-17-2019 Thanks for the sweet New Yorker write-up, Masha Gessen! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/60341695a2882c09c5997ac4/1614026399058/ZestBooks.png Events & Trouble - 05-19-2015 Why’d I write a book chockfull of new circles of hell? Zest Books asks me a few questions and gets a few answers in this interview. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603417df9f9bc3589c75f642/1614026727189/405_VQRfall2011_logo.jpg Events & Trouble 12-19-2012 My essay on memorializing in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, CT, “The Geography of Mourning,” is available online at Virgina Quarterly Review. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603412dd8554c11a82043443/1614025450756/KirkusBestOf.jpg Events & Trouble 12-10-2018 Well, hey, The Marginalized Majority was just named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603412c2a2882c09c598f892/1614025419736/FutureWaPo.jpg Events & Trouble 01-16-2019 The hush hush project I’ve been working on with the Yes Men and L.A. Kauffman finally hit the streets today. Read the full text of this Washington Post from the future here. The activist guide insert is available here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603413628cbd376e5b97981b/1614025581550/KPFA.png Events & Trouble 08-02-2018 Thanks to Obi Kauffman for a great inteview at KPFA. Link to our convo is here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034118ca55ebf6c5af53672/1614025137584/WestConnWinterRes.jpg Events & Trouble 01-06-2020 Pleased to be back at Western Connecticut State University for their MFA program residency. I’ll be teaching a workshop called “What’s the Story: Finding the Narrative Arc in Memoir” and giving a reading (open to the public) at 7:30 pm. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034171ccc23892027c57df7/1614026534183/Hells2.jpg Events & Trouble 04-07-2015Go to Hells: An Updated Guide to Dante’s Underworld, written under my pen name, Kali V. Roy, is out today! You can buy it here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603411ffd3577028a7d8891e/1614025247360/DrewSymposium.jpg Events & Trouble 11-07-2019 Publishing Symposium tonight at Drew University! I’ll be talking the do’s and don’t’s of pitching both reported stories and essays. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603415008cbd376e5b97d0cf/1614025993779/MMItshere.jpg Events & Trouble - 04-06-2018 My book The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America will be released by Melville House Books on July 10. Pre-order it here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/60341948c8a04b2c88f11197/1614027088030/BooksAfterAmazon.png Events & Trouble 11-20-2010 My investigative article, exploring the impact that Amazon has had on the publishing industry is the cover story for the November/December issue of the Boston Review. “Books After Amazon” is available here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603416419f9bc3589c75bc03/1614026315476/Upworthy.png Events & Trouble 08-13-2015 My story on the awesome NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative is over at Upworthy today. Read it here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603418fb5f21a8421ef5e3f9/1614027011447/TwistedCritters.png Events & Trouble 08-15-2011 Twisted Critters: The Pipe Cleaner Book, featuring my pipe cleaner designs, was just released and is available here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603414b07aacd44d16ae7b54/1614025917993/MMtour.jpg Events & Trouble 06-11-2018 NYC friends: Mark your calendars and share w/your peoples! I’m very excited about these two book launch events, featuring some of the baddest women I know. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/60341385c54ead16a84dd87d/1614025613186/WUNC.jpg Events & Trouble - 07-25-2018 Thanks to Anita Rao on WUNC’s “State of Things” for a fantastic interview in my hometown. Listen here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034110b7aacd44d16ae0282/1614024981587/Mothmainstage.jpg Events & Trouble 08-06-2020 Hey! This is a delicious Moth mainstage line-up that I snuck into. Come watch me pretend the wall right outside my bathroom is a storytelling stage! Tonight at 7 pm PDT/10 pm EST. You can purchase tickets here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034114b1c0f7337033f5aed/1614025044876/FutureNowFund.jpg Events & Trouble 06-09-2020 Ah, facilitating in the time of coronavirus. Thankfully, the “storytelling for political change” workshop I just led for Future Now Fund went swimmingly. If you don’t already know about the badass work they’re doing, check them out. Here’s a look behind the scenes at my super profesh standing-desk set-up. And yes. Those are my notes attached to a curtain with an earring. Just call me MacGyver. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034152054b6186c02784fd1/1614026025063/TAL.jpg Events & Trouble 03-02-2018 If you tune into this week’s episode of This American Life, you’ll hear me — and four other women — talk about our former boss at AlterNet. It’s a deeper dive into the lives of women behind #metoo headlines, and I’m so impressed with how the producer — Chana Joffe-Walt — wove the stories together. Listen here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603415d685a08c275b6fbd90/1614026210282/Kenyon.png Events & Trouble 12-23-2015 Hot off the (e)presses! A strange little essay about my name. And Alf. And being partially Indian. And partially non-Indian. Check out “Where I’m Writing From” at Kenyon Review. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034131c0202063630f724b7/1614025509514/Roulette.jpg Events & Trouble - 11-05-2018 The New York Times says you should come see “For the People” – Monday 11/5, 8 pm at Roulette. I think so, too. Incredible music from Darius Jones. I’ll be there presenting The Marginalized Majority. Come out and get your dose of & solidarity before the midterms. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603418d31c6b4543529073e1/1614026978525/BestAmerican.png Events & Trouble 10-04-2011 My investigative article, “Books After Amazon” makes Dave Eggers’ “Notable Non-Required Reading” list of 2010 in the anthology, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034153faa1f45345984b2d3/1614026078233/RollingStone.png Events & Trouble 01-22-2017 “How to Take Action – and Stay Sane – in the Trump Era,” an interview with author and activist L.A. Kauffman, is now available over at Rolling Stone. Give it a read. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603413f74f39a7717b8cf89b/1614025734253/salon.png Events & Trouble 07-11-2018 “Protest Doesn’t Work — Except When It Does,” an excerpt from my book, is live on Salon today… and, uh, yes. Yes, I do compare trying to understand how sex works by watching porn to trying to understand how protest works by reading anemic history textbooks. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/60341741cc23892027c5815a/1614026572137/center-for-fiction.png Events & Trouble - 05-19-2014 I’ll be giving a farewell-to-being-a-fellow reading at the Center for Fiction on Monday, May 19th at 7 pm. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603412314f39a7717b8cc17d/1614025273831/CaveatImprov.jpg Events & Trouble 05-24-2019 Tonight! I’ll be performing an improvised PowerPoint presentation with the inimitable Micaela Blei as part of the “PowerPoint Roulette” comedy show. Come watch us make shit up alongside comedians Aparna Nacherla, Shalewa Sharp, and more. 7 pm at NYC’s Caveat. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/603412fe8554c11a820435d1/1614025481453/LAEvent.jpg Events & Trouble 11-15-2018 D.C. friends: Come scheme with me & the brilliant L.A. Kauffman, author of the new book How to Read a Protest, about a post-Trump future. At the Potter’s House at 6:30 pm. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6033f2c99bb6c12266a36c49/t/6034158ce47a5b5c994c7f82/1614026132742/download.png Events & Trouble 12-02-2016 In the aftermath of this presidential election, how do we keep moving forward? My essay on reclaiming these coming years is over at Los Angeles Review of Books. 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