MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers 6

WHAT’S HAPPENIN’ IN JULY 2007

THE 6th MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers on Saturday, July 28, 2007, will feature Tinling Choong, whose début novel, FireWife, was published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday on January 23, 2007. Born and bred in Penang, Malaysia, Tinling is working towards her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. “FireWife,” according to Tinling, “is a story of plight and hope, escape and desire, offering vignettes in the lives of eight Asian women: a photographer, six women she photographs, and a girl travelling in between lives.” In January 2007, FireWife was nominated for the Henry Miller Award for the best literary sex scene published in the English language. And yes, she is a blogger.

Also featured is Kam Raslan who has written his first novel, Confessions of an Old Boy (Marshall Cavendish, 2007). All except one of the Dato’ Hamid adventures collected here were first serialised in Off the Edge. Kam Raslan is a writer and director, working in film, television and theatre in Malaysia. A columnist with the Edge and Off the Edge, he hopes to make a feature film of his own one of these days. He shares a collection of essays, Generation: A Collection of Contemporary Malaysian Ideas (Hikayat Press, 1998), with Amir Muhammad and Sheryll Stothard.

Tinling Choong and Kam Raslan will be introduced by Eric Forbes. Kenny Mah will be facilitating the session.

Date July 28, 2007 (Saturday)
Time 11.00a.m.-12.30p.m.
Venue MPH Bangsar Village II, Lot 2F-1 (2nd Floor), Bangsar Village II, No. 2, Jalan Telawi 1, Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 603-2287 3600

Food and refreshments will be served
All lovers of literature are most welcome

COMING NEXT

The 6th MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers on SUNDAY (not Saturday), August 26, 2007 will feature Sydney-based novelist Beth Yahp, whose first novel, The Crocodile Fury (Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins Australia, 1992), was published in Australia in 1992, as well as Yvonne Lee, the bestselling author of The Sky is Crazy: Tales from a Trolley Dolly (Marshall Cavendish, 2005).

Both Beth Yahp and Yvonne Lee will be introduced by Eric Forbes while Kenny Mah will be facilitating the session.

FORTHCOMING

The 7th MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers on Sunday, September 23, 2007 will feature theatre actor/director/newspaper columnist Gavin Yap, whose first book, tentatively titled What’s the Point? (MPH Publishing, 2008), will be published sometime in 2008.

We will also be featuring mathematician-turned-television scriptwriter and newspaper columnist Dzof Azmi. Logic is the antithesis of emotion but Dzof Azmi’s theory is that people need both to make sense of life’s vagaries and contradictions.

Gavin Yap will be introduced by Eric Forbes while Dzof Azmi will be introduced by Janet Tay. Kenny Mah will be facilitating the session.

The 8th MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers on Saturday, October 27, 2007 will feature novelist Tan Twan Eng, whose first novel, The Gift of Rain (Myrmidon Press, 2007), was released in March 2007, as well as novelist D. Devika Bai, a retired schoolteacher who has published her first novel, The Flight of the Swans (Monsoon Books, 2005).

Tan Twan Eng will be introduced by Eric Forbes while D. Devika Bai will be introduced by Janet Tay. Kenny Mah will be facilitating the session.

MPH Bangsar Village II is at Lot 2F-1 (2nd Floor), Bangsar Village II, No. 2, Jalan Telawi 1, Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 603-2287 3600