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“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.”
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 spoke with David James Duncan--author of the best-selling novels THE RIVER WHY and THE BROTHERS K--about his new novel, SUN HOUSE, and how he has made his way forward during bardo periods of struggle and impermanence.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 talked with best-selling Chilean-American author Isabel Allende, author of THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, about displacement, exile, and the search for home. “I have had no control over the most important losses that I’ve experienced,” Allende said. “The only thing I can control is how I react, so I just plunge into whatever comes and say yes to life.”
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater's TRAVELING IN BARDO will be published by Hachette Go in fall 2025.
Read More“Humor is very connected to the deep things in life,” author Andrew Sean Greer told Ann Tashi Slater '84 in the latest interview for her Tricycle magazine series about bardo and the art of living.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 talked with bestselling author Dani Shapiro about facing change and embracing the moment, the latest in Ann's interview series about bardo and the art of living.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 spoke with Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat about why death is central to her storytelling and how she finds meaning in the face of impermanence.
Read MoreIn the latest conversation for her interview series about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater '84 talked with author Melissa Febos about how to break free from the scripts of family and society and live a life that’s true to who we are (https://tricycle.org/article/melissa-febos/).
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 spoke with David Sedaris and Gish Jen for the latest interviews in her Tricycle magazine series about Tibetan Buddhist bardo and the art of living. Her conversation with Sedaris was about parents, connections with strangers, and embracing what you have (https://tricycle.org/article/david-sedaris/); she talked with Jen about existing between cultures and being the author of your own life (https://tricycle.org/article/gish-jen/).
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 wrote for The New Yorker about the Manuscript Writing Café in Tokyo. You can only enter the cafe if you have a deadline (and you can’t leave until you’ve met your goal).
Read MoreIn the latest in her Tricycle series, "Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life," Ann Tashi Slater '84 speaks with John McPhee '53 about being in the zone while writing.
Read MoreIn the latest in my new Tricycle magazine series, "Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life," I talk with Mohsin Hamid '93 about endings and beginnings. "The impulse to deny when change comes is natural," Hamid says. "It isn't wrong in the sense that the change can be quite overwhelming, but it's an impulse that's worth interrogating because I'm not sure it serves us particularly well."
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 is launching a series with Tricycle magazine called “Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life.” The interviews will explore how Tibetan bardo wisdom relates to our everyday existence, illuminating new ways of seeing and living. In the first conversation, Ann talks with author Maud Newton about how uncovering the connection between our past and present can help us find lasting happiness. ANCESTOR TROUBLE: A RECKONING AND A RECONCILIATION, Newton's investigation of America’s fascination with genealogy and her obsession with her own family history, has been named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and Esquire. (https://tricycle.org/article/maud-newton/)
Read MoreIn an essay in the Summer issue of @tricyclemag, Ann Tashi Slater '84 explores Buddhism and desire, Ibsen's "A Doll's House," and selfhood (https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhism-and-womanhood/).
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