Ann Tashi Slater will discuss her new book at Rizzoli with Dani Shapiro on September 10
Who: Ann Tashi Slater, Dani Shapiro
What: Book launch with reading, conversation, and signing
Where: Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway & West 26th St.
When: Wednesday, September 10, free with advance RSVP, 6:00
Why: “In a world where nothing lasts forever, how do we live?” writer, speaker, and traveler Ann Tashi Slater asks in her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World (Balance, September 9, $29). Slater will address that question and more at the book launch at Rizzoli on September 10, where she will sit down with Dani Shapiro, author of such books as Signal Fires and Inheritance and host and creator of the podcast Family Secrets and who provided the foreword to the book.
“In my work, I explore how our personal histories and cultural roots shape us and how we find meaning in a world where everything — including we ourselves — changes and ends,” Slater explains on her website. “Traveling in Bardo interweaves explorations of impermanence in relation to marriage and friendship, parents and children, and work and creativity with stories of my Tibetan ancestors and Buddhist perspectives on the fleeting nature of existence, offering a new way to navigate change and live life fully.”
Slater will also give an in-person and virtual talk on September 12 at Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute with Lauran Hartley and take part in a Q&A and signing on September 16 at Tibet House.
[Mark Rifkin is a Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-based writer and editor; you can follow him on Substack here. Full disclosure: Mark’s wife is Ann Tashi Slater’s literary agent.]