In this video, Sofi Oksanen answers audience questions on writing, human trafficking and violence. On April 27, 2010, Oksanen visited City of Asylum Pittsburgh to give a reading with Christos Tsiolkas and Tommy Wieringa.
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Christos Tsiolkas visited City of Asylum Pittsburgh on April 27, 2010. In this video, Tsiolkas talks about his process constructing characters, writing about sex, The Slap’s reception, and Australian slang.
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An excerpt from Christos Tsiolkas’s novel The Slap, which explores the changing lifestyle of Australia’s middle-class and confronts issues such as multiculturalism, homophobia, and infidelity.
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In this video, Christos Tsiolkas reads an excerpt from his novel The Slap, which explores the changing lifestyle of Australia’s middle-class and confronts issues such as multiculturalism, homophobia, and infidelity.
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In this video, Tommy Wieringa reads an excerpt of his 2005 novel Joe Speedboat at an event sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, in partnership with PEN American Center.
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n this video, Sofi Oksanen reads an excerpt of her novel Purge, in which a young woman escaping the sex-slave trade ends up in the backyard of an Estonian woman who survived sexual assault at the hands of Soviet occupiers.
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Sampsonia Way contributor Elizabeth Hoover reflects on a literary panel sponsored by City of Asylum Pittsburgh and PEN America.
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