Sweatheart No. 9
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaSweatheart No. 9 will be happening on Friday, 16 August 2019, 8:30 p.m. at Lit Books! If you haven't already heard, Sweatheart—NOT Sweetheart—is a monthly storytelling night in Kuala Lumpur, featuring true seven-minute stories told live by both practiced performers and first-timers. There's no theme this month, so anything goes. If you've got a story, […]
In Conversation with Daryl Yeap, author of ‘The King’s Chinese’
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us for an author session with Daryl Yeap, who will be speaking about her book, The King's Chinese. The King’s Chinese chronicles the incredible life of the “merchant prince of Penang”, Yeap Chor Ee. A penniless migrant from China, Yeap Chor Ee started out in Penang as a barber but rose to become Penang’s […]
Book Launch Party: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaPRAISE BE for Margaret Atwood’s much-anticipated The Testaments, the long-awaited sequel to her 1985 critically acclaimed novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. In the brilliant sequel, Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades. The story picks up 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. The Testaments has […]
Architecture & Independence
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaBetween 2001 and 2006, architectural historian Lai Chee Kien conducted a series of interviews with the key architects, engineers and artists who contributed to the landscape of Kuala Lumpur and its outskirts at the time of Independence. The 10 projects – Merdeka Stadium, Merdeka Park, University of Malaya, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Stadium Negara, Muzium […]
Meet the Author: Dato M. Shanmughalingam
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaDato M. Shanmughalingam's short stories and poems have been published in over 30 international and national anthologies in France, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK and the US. A winner of the British Council Short Story Prize and editor's choice for the Fish International Short Story Prize, Shan has been an international and current affairs […]
Eliot Weinberger in conversation with Eddin Khoo
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaEliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, political commentator, essayist, editor, and translator. He is the translator of the poetry of Bei Dao, and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (2003). He is best known as the primary translator of Octavio Paz's (Nobel prize winning writer, poet and diplomat) works […]
Meet Kubi Springer, brand builder
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaBranding expert Kubi Springer will be at Lit Books to talk about her book, I Am My Brand. The book is a toolkit for personal brand success. Featuring dynamic female brand builders from around the world, the book is a woven tapestry of personal brand advice with storytelling and support that offers a practical guide […]
Up close & personal with Tash Aw
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaUPDATE: We're sold out of tickets. Thank you all for your support! We’re excited to welcome Tash Aw back to Lit Books in December! For those of you who missed out on his author session in August, this is your chance to catch the London-based award-winning Malaysian author in person. Lit Books’ very own […]
Book Discussion: What I Saw in Malaya
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWhat I Saw in Malaya compiles early 20th-century French anthropologist Jeanne Cuisinier’s lectures and methods on observing the lives of Malayan peoples she encountered. Cuisinier has been presented as an anthropologist with an academic yet affectionate attitude towards her Malayan subjects, a gentle presence in Malaya that can shed light on the lifestyles of Malayans […]
Suffian Hakim in conversation with Two Book Nerds Talking
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWe're delighted to have Suffian Hakim return to Lit Books in December with the illustrated edition of his first novel, Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher, in which a bespectacled boy finds out that magic is disappearing in Singapore... and has to stop it. Together with literary podcaster Two Book Nerds Talking and […]
