Readings, Rated
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for Columbia College’s Story Week
Date: Monday March 17, 2008
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Cindy Pritzker Auditorium of the Harold Washington Public Library
Columbia College’s Story Week encountered a last minute glitch when Joyce Carol Oates (their original headliner) canceled due to the death of her husband. Her replacement is Indian-American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, who will talk with super-wonderful-interviewer Donna Seaman of Open Books and Booklist, about her book, In the Palace of Illusions. In this interview, Divakaruni talks about her affinity to mysticism, much as Salman Rushdie did when HE was the Story Week keynote speaker last year? Coincidence? Or are the Story Week programmers a bunch of mystics?
“But I’ve always been interested in alternate realities and believe that we live in a world where many realities are nestled one within the other—if only we have the sensitivity to experience them.”
Also, if you care, here’s an an (unsentimental! yay!) essay about what her kids have taught her.