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A reading & conversation with Nishant Batsha

Nishant Batsha, author of MOTHER OCEAN FATHER NATION, in conversation with Laura Marris

Join Talking Leaves … Books and JBLC to celebrate the publication of Mother Ocean Father Nation, a novel by writer & JB teaching artist Nishant Batsha. After reading from the novel, Batsha will be joined in conversation by writer & translator Laura Marris. Books will be available for purchase from Buffalo bookseller Talking Leaves … Books.

This event is free & open to the public.

Date

Thursday, June 30, 2022
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Time

8:00 pm

Location

Just Buffalo Literary Center
Just Buffalo Literary Center
468 Washington St., 2nd Floor, Buffalo, NY

Organizer

Just Buffalo Literary Center
Just Buffalo Literary Center
Phone
(716) 832-5400
Email
info@justbuffalo.org

Other Organizers

Talking Leaves...Books
Talking Leaves...Books

Featured Artists

  • Laura Marris
    Laura Marris
    Writer & Translator

    Laura Marris is a writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, The Yale Review, The Paris Review Daily, The Common, The TLS, The New York Times, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, a Katharine Bakeless Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Her first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, was published in August 2024 by Graywolf Press.

    (Photo credit: Pat Cray)

  • Nishant Batsha
    Nishant Batsha
    Fiction Writer, Historian

    Nishant Batsha is a writer of fiction and history. His debut novel Mother Ocean Father Nation will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in June 2022. A Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, he received his doctorate in history from Columbia University.

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