UCI kicks off Illuminations Authors Series with celebrity chef Simon Majumdar

EVENT: UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor’s Arts and Culture Initiative will kick off its second annual authors series – which brings acclaimed writers to campus for free, public book talks and signings – with celebrity chef Simon Majumdar, who penned Fed, White and Blue: Finding America With My Fork.

WHEN/WHERE: 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the Crystal Cove Auditorium at the Student Center (bldg. 113, grid E8 on campus map: https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_16_map_campus_core.pdf)

INFORMATION: Parking is available for $10 per day or $2 per hour in the Student Center Parking Structure (grid D9 on campus map). Media planning to attend should contact Pat Harriman at 949-824-9055 or pharrima@uci.edu. Other participants in the series are:
• Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko
• Sarah Stillman, staff writer for The New Yorker
• Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
• Kevin Young, author of Brown: Poems
• Natasha Trethewey, author of Native Guard
• Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers
• Jennine Capo Crucet, author of Making Your Home Among Strangers
On- and off-campus reading groups precede select writers. For dates, times, locations and further details, see http://illuminations.uci.edu/authors-series.

BACKGROUND: Sponsors of the Illuminations Authors Series include UCI’s Advisory
Council on Campus Climate, Culture & Inclusion; Chancellor’s Distinguished Speakers Series; UCI Libraries; M.F.A. Programs in Writing; Forum for the Academy and the Public; Center for Critical Korean Studies; Phi Beta Kappa; and Humanities Commons. Other sponsors include the departments of English, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Criminology, Law & Society, and the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication.