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A Writer’s Life – An Intimate Conversation with LAP Literary Fellows Jeff Chang and Garrett Hongo
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Lucas Artists Program: Open Access Series
A Writer’s Life – An Intimate Conversation with LAP Literary Fellows Jeff Chang and Garrett Hongo
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Join us for a powerful conversation where these literary masters will reveal how personal heritage shapes universal human experiences.
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Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 7:00PM
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Lucas Artists Program: Open Access Series
A Writer’s Life – An Intimate Conversation with LAP Literary Fellows Jeff Chang and Garrett Hongo
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Two celebrated authors of our time who have recently released their highly anticipated new books appear together at Montalvo for an unforgettable intergenerational conversation. Jeff Chang (2023 Fellow), author of Water, Mirror, Echo; Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop; and We Gon’ Be Alright, and Garrett Hongo (2015 Fellow), author of Ocean of Clouds: Poems; Volcano; and The Perfect Sound, discuss and share their thoughts on a wide range of topics that inspire them in their personal life and work including Bruce Lee, music, their Hawaiian ancestry, and what coming of age in California looked like for each of them.
Join us for a powerful conversation where these literary masters will reveal how personal heritage shapes universal human experiences.
There will be a short Q&A following the conversation. Water, Mirror, Echo and Ocean of Clouds: Poems will be available for purchase. The authors will do a meet and greet and book signings in the Project Space Gallery.
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About the Books:
Water, Mirror, Echo is a cultural biography of the legend Bruce Lee, set against the extraordinary, untold story of the rise of Asian America. The title derives from Lee’s own way of moving, being, and responding to the world. Written by Jeff Chang, an award-winning author whose writings on culture, politics, the arts, and music have made him one of the most acclaimed and distinctive voices of our time, Lee’s story brims with authenticity.
Ocean of Clouds: Poems is a surpassingly beautiful collection of poetry, written by Garrett Hongo, an award-winning writer and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, and Rockefeller Fellowship. With his characteristic style, similar to long-lined, rolling music, Hongo is alert to the possibilities of individual moments of perception and grace in the landscapes of his life. These poems of cloudy moons and sandstone cliffsides, the black glass of lava shattered into sands, waves surging, and stories of a poet’s gratitude for the journey he has made, come together to make a paean against forgetting.