Join authors Ery Shin (Spring On the Peninsula) and Christine Ma-Kellams (The Band) as they discuss their books and stories from the Korean diaspora.
Longlisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Spring On the Peninsula is Ery Shin's debut novel about a desultory libertine who mourns a failed relationship over the course of two harsh winters. In this unprecedented portrait of millennials living in Seoul, Shin captures contemporary Seoul in all of its glory and turmoil, and this daringly irreverent novel is a poignant meditation on modern life in a city beset by North Korea’s shadow.
A psychologist with a savior complex offers shelter to a recently canceled K-pop idol in this “first great K-pop literary phenomenon” (Debutiful), The Band is a first novel from the cultural psychologist Christine Ma-Kellams. In its “gripping exploration of the complexities that accompany fame” (Booklist), The Band considers the many ways in which love and celebrity can devolve into something far more sinister.
Part of Town Hall's "K-Town Hall Series," each ticket includes a copy of Spring On the Peninsula and The Band.
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The Other Korea: Stories from the Diaspora
Saturday, October 12, 2024 | 3 PM (EDT)
The Town Hall Lounge
123 West 43rd Street
(Between 6th Ave and Broadway)
New York, NY 10036
About the Speakers:
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Ery Shin was born in Ames, Iowa in 1986. She was raised in Manhattan for the first decade of her life, then Seoul for the second. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University and a doctorate in the same discipline from the University of Oxford. The author of Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years, a study of Stein’s later experimental gestures and their philosophical implications within Hitler’s Europe, she is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Spring on the Peninsula is her debut novel. |
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