One of the illustrious readers for DL’s Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Bookend Event on Sept 20 is debut memoirist, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.
Tan is a New York-based writer who has written a memoir about discovering her Singaporean family by learning to cook with them. A Tiger In The Kitchen was published by New York City-based Hyperion in 2011. She is currently working on her second book, a novel.
Born and raised in Singapore, she crossed the ocean at age 18 to go to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Unsure of whether she would remain in the U.S. after college, she interned in places as disparate as possible. She hung out with Harley Davidson enthusiasts in Topeka, Kan., interviewed gypsies about their burial rituals in Portland, Ore., covered July 4 in Washington, D.C., and chronicled the life and times of the Boomerang Pleasure Club, a group of Italian-American men that were getting together to cook, play cards and gab about women for decades in their storefront “clubhouse” in Chicago.
She started her full-time journalism career helping out on the cops beat in Baltimore — training that would prove to be essential in her future fashion reporting. Both, it turns out, are like war zones. The only difference is, people dress differently.
Tan was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style magazine and the Baltimore Sun. Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Every Day With Rachael Ray, Family Circle, Bloomberg Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, The (Portland) Oregonian, The (Topeka) Capital-Journal, The (Singapore) Straits Times and Elle.com.
Her first book was praised by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, People magazine, NBC’s Today Show, Kirkus Reviews, Houston Chronicle, Denver Post and the Shanghai Daily among other publications. She has also lectured on writing, memoir-writing and the process of culinary anthropology — the archiving of culture via food and food histories — at the Museum of Chinese in America, Asia Society, Washington Embassy of Singapore, Commonwealth Club of California and various book festivals, including the prestigious Brooklyn Book Festival, Singapore Writers Festival and Miami Book Fair.
Come hear her read as part of Brooklyn Book Festival this coming Thursday, Sept 20 at 7pm at Pacific Standard Brewery in Brooklyn.
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