Author event with Florentyna Leow
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us for a conversation with Japan-based Malaysian writer Florentyna Leow who will be speaking with Elaine Lau about How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart, an intimate collection of essays about […]
The Second Link Book Launch
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us at 8pm on 16 Sept, 2023 for the launch of The Second Link, an anthology of stories edited by Daryl Lim Wei Jie, Hamid Roslan, Melizarani T. Selva and […]
Author event with Peter Lim
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaPeter Lim Tze Cheng will be discussing his book What I Learnt About Semicon & EMS with Fong Min Hun at our store at 11am, 30 Sept, 2023. The conversation will be […]
Author Event: Shih-Li Kow
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaCome listen to award-winning Malaysian writer Shih-Li Kow discuss Bone Weight, her new collection of stories, with publisher and literary raconteur Amir Muhammad on 18 Nov, 2023 at 8pm. Following the […]
Author Event: James Chai (POSTPONED)
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWe regret to announce that our scheduled event with James Chai on 13 January 2024 has been postponed until later on in the year. The postponement is due to an issue with book logistics, which means that we won't be able to get his books in time for the event. As such, we decided, together […]
Author Event with Kam Raslan
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaTHE ANATOMY OF A PICARESQUE HERO. Join us for an evening of witty banter with writer and broadcaster Kam Raslan, who will talk about the provenance and make-up of Dato' Hamid, the roguish protagonist of his famously funny Confessions of an Old Boy at 8pm, Saturday, 27 January 2024. Kam will be chatting with Min […]
Author Event: Hafiz Noor Shams
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaEconomists Hafiz Noor Shams and Ooi Kok Hin will discuss the central thesis of Hafiz’ book, The End of the Nineteen-Nineties, which links the resurgence of extreme conservatism in Malaysia with the bursting of the Asian economic bubble at the end of the last millennium. Moderated by Fong Min Hun, the session will cover recent historical […]
Author Event with Yeoh Jo-Ann
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaCatch award-winning Malaysian author Yeoh Jo-Ann at Lit Books on 27 April! She’ll be talking about her new book, Deplorable Conversations with Cats and Other Distractions, and how she’s evolved as a writer since her first book, Impractical Uses of Cake, which won the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Tickets are RM10, and you will receive a voucher to […]
Author Event with Edwin Malachi Vetahamani
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us (8pm, May 18) for a scintillating evening of conversation with writer and poet Malachi Edwin Vethamani who will be talking about his new collection of stories Have I Got Something to Tell You. Malachi, a luminary Malaysian poet and writer, interrogates the interstices of contemporary lives to uncover cloistered lived experiences in contemporary […]
Author Event with Erica Eng
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us (8pm, June 1) for an intimate conversation with Erica Eng, who will be talking about her debut graphic novel Fried Rice. Erica is Malaysia's first Eisner award winner and will be talking with Lit Books' co-founder Fong Min Hun about the genesis of the book, her work, and just how autobiographical semi-autobiographical really means. […]
