In this episode, Jane Wong, the award-winning writer and author of two books of poetry, “How to Not Be Afraid of Everything” from Alice James Books (2021) and “Overpour” from Action Books (2016) sits down with us to talk about her new memoir, “Meet Me Tonight In Atlantic City” from Tin House Press (2023).
Kirkus calls the release “a generous, steaming stew of a book loaded with personality and originality and sprinkled with the fiery chili of rage.”
Ahead of her visit home to Atlantic City, where she’ll celebrate the release of the memoir at Mighty Writers AC, we talk to Jane about the structure of her memoir, how she creates a historical archive even when the history of her ancestors has been erased, and research as generational healing. We also discuss the loving ways she rendered her parents and brother, what writing meant to her as a child and how she thinks about her work as a writing teacher.
Mighty Writers is a class 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 2009. One hundred percent of the programs we offer are free. We serve communities in and around Philadelphia, PA, as well as in Camden, Newark and Atlantic City, NJ. We also run writing workshops in Washington Heights, NYC.
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