Non-Fiction: Fortune Cookies + Bliss Night!

Eric Weiner (The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World) + Jennifer 8. Lee (The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food)

Eric Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio. He’s been based in New Delhi, Jerusalem, and Tokyo, and has reported from more than thirty countries. Weiner is a former reporter for the New York Times and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. His commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and The New Republic. He lives in Miami, Florida and can be reached at ericweinerbooks.com.

Jennifer 8. Lee, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese herself, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food in her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1999 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at Beijing University. At the age of 24, she was hired by the New York Times, where she is a metro reporter and has written a variety of stories on culture, poverty, and technology.

The KGB Nonfiction Reading Series is the city's premier outlet for the most talented contemporary nonfiction writers working today. Hosted by Kelly McMasters and Lisa Selin Davis, books are provided by Mobile Libris.