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Upcoming events with Jessica Hagedorn. Jessica has been commissioned by Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ to write Play Like A Girl: The Amazing Life And Times Of A Band Named Fanny, an original musical about the first all-female rock band to be signed to a major label.
Words Without Borders: “Languages Constantly Crackling in the Air”: A Conversation with Jessica Hagedorn LINK. BMCC May 5, 2017/ Onstage conversation/ “The Writer In The World”/ Jessica & Viet Thanh Nguyen/ Moderator: Nita Noveno LINK. AAWW Radio: Filipino American Music (ft. Christine Balance, Jessica Hagedorn, Patrick Rosal) LINK
Mar 22, 2024 · Jessica Hagedorn was born and raised in the Philippines and came to the United States in her early teens. Her novels include Toxicology, Dream Jungle, The Gangster of Love, and Dogeaters, which received an American Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Award. She is presently at work on a hybrid memoir.
Jessica Hagedorn’s Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions, a multigenre novella, won the American Book Award in 1981, the year of the book’s publication. Hagedorn received her first Macdowell ...
Mar 25, 2022 · Some of Hagedorn's notable works – which range from novels, to collections of poetry, anthologies of fiction, and plays, among other genres – include Dogeaters, Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions, The Gangster of Love, Dream Jungle, Danger and Beauty, Dangerous Music, Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction, Manila Noir, and the stage adaptation of Dogeaters. She was also a member of a musical band called The Gangster Choir.
Jessica Hagedorn Born in Manilla and raised in the Philippines before coming to the U.S., Jessica Hagedorn is known as a novelist, a performance artist, a poet, and a playwright. Her 1993 collection Danger and Beauty gathers poems, stories, and memoirs.
Nov 15, 2013 · Dogeaters, by Jessica Hagedorn. In Dogeaters, there is no middle class — only the extremely rich and the extremely poor. The book, set in the late 1950s in Manila, begins with the story of Rio ...
