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Ann Tashi Slater talked with George Saunders, best-selling author of VIGIL and LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, about final reckonings, everyday liminal states, and being your true self (Tricycle).
Read MoreIn “Into the Cave,” Ann Tashi Slater talked with Lullaby Machine about what the periods between daily beginnings and endings teach us about larger, life-altering experiences of change and loss.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater talked with best-selling author Ann Patchett about about devoting time to what’s important, why death is ever-present, and using social capital to do good.
Read MoreAn excerpt from Ann Tashi Slater’s new book, TRAVELING IN BARDO, appears in LIT HUB.
Read MoreTRAVELING IN BARDO (Hachette) by Ann Tashi Slater '84 launches on September 9.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater talked with poet and writer Maggie Smith about finding possibility in periods of upheaval, and the freedom of having your life implode. Smith is the best-selling author of poetry collections, including GOOD BONES, and a memoir, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL; her latest book, DEAR WRITER: PEP TALKS & PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR THE CREATIVE LIFE, explores creativity on the page and in life. https://tricycle.org/article/on-not-knowing-and-making-this-place-beautiful/?utm_campaign=00662834&utm_source=p3s4h3r3s
Read MoreTRAVELING IN BARDO: THE ART OF LIVING IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD (Hachette, Sept. 9) has been selected as a September 2025 “Must Read” by the Next Big Idea Club, a nonfiction book club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater’s new book, TRAVELING IN BARDO: THE ART OF LIVING IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD (Hachette, Sept. 9), is now available for pre-order!
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater talked with Cooper about loss, grief, and the biggest question he's wrestling with now.
Read MoreHow can we lean into the changes that life inevitably brings? In her latest conversation about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater talked with Katherine May about being prepared for change and finding new insight during times of transition.
Read MoreIn day-to-day life, we often fall into well-worn grooves of perception, not noticing much of what’s around us. How can we see our everyday world in new ways?
Read MoreWhat can we do when the world as we know it ends? Ann Tashi Slater talked about this with author Cheryl Strayed, who hiked 1100 miles from the Mojave Desert to Washington State in search of answers after the death of her mother.
Read More"I’ve realized there’s no reason to be surprised by change," Malcolm Gladwell says. "In fact, we should be suspicious of its absence, not surprised by its presence."
Read More“The way life is shot through with loss and gain is the painful beauty of being alive,” says Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez, one of America’s most celebrated Latina authors.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater ’84 talked with leading American Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein about coming to terms with loss and not missing your life.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater ’84 talked with physicist, author, and Princeton alum Alan Lightman (Class of ’70) about happiness, hidden knowledge, and living our lives with an awareness of death.
Read MoreIn her latest interview about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with Amitava Kumar about the power of our personal and collective stories, how he has come to terms with his father’s death, and art as a site of both mourning and hope.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater ’84 talked with author Lorrie Moore about humor, grief, and how to live—and die—in a world of impermanence. Moore is one of America’s most acclaimed writers, described by Alison Lurie as “the nearest thing we have to Chekhov.”
Read More“Grief doesn’t narrow you down, it expands you,” author and Princeton professor Yiyun Li told Ann Tashi Slater '84, in On Grief, Willpower, and Finding Happiness, the latest in Ann’s interview series about bardo and the art of living.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater’s "Light and Shadow” is Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine. In this memoir, Ann explores her quest to understand the dissolution of her parents’ marriage and the disintegration of her family. She writes about “memories and ghosts, the power of the imagination and the spirit, the things we don’t know or cannot know.”
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