KGB Bar

Please join us next week as two very talented young woman explore places near and far: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitt will read from her upcoming nonfiction book HARLEM IS NOWHERE (Little, Brown, 2011), and Alice Albinia will read from her critically-acclaimed travel memoir EMPIRES OF THE INDUS (W.W. Norton 2010/ John Murray UK), about the Indus River valley in Pakistan.

Alice Alibinia read English Literature at Cambridge University. After graduating, she moved to Delhi, where she worked for the next two a half years as a journalist and editor. It was during this time, as she traveled around the country writing articles and features, that she had the idea to write a history of the River Indus.  EMPIRES OF THE INDUS is her first book, for which she won a Royal Society of Literature / Jerwood Foundation Special Prize for non-fiction work in progress, a Somerset Maugham Award and the Dolman Travel Prize.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitt is a writer whose work has appeared in Transition, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. She has received awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from Houston, Texas, she graduated in 2000 from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom. Sharifa is writing a trilogy on African-Americans and utopia; her first book, HARLEM IS NOWHERE, will be published in 2011 by Little, Brown & Company.