Events
With support from the Center for the Art of Translation, Two Lines Press regularly programs public events and tours our authors and translators to create opportunities for English-language readers to connect directly with our books and the work of literary translators. Browse our upcoming author and translator tours.
Night Train Book Tour
Berkeley | New York | Boston
Jeremy Tiang presents his translation of Night Train by Xu Zechen on tour.
Jeremy Tiang presents his translation of Night Train by Xu Zechen
Looking to take a vacation before settling in for to his PhD studies and hoping to swindle a little traveling money from his father, Chen Munian made up a story about killing someone and needing to flee.
But now that lie has taken on a life of its own and everyone—the university, the police, the sprawling campus community—is convinced he’s a murderer.
Munian is barely holding on: his wages are meager, he lives with a group of chaotic roommates, he drinks too much with his crazy artist neighbor who is obsessed with Van Gogh, and his bumbling attempts to woo the beautiful Qin Ke always end in heartache. His life keeps spiraling out of his control, and he can’t help but wonder if he was destined to be a murderer all along.
Xu Zechen’s Night Train, in Jeremy Tiang’s brash translation, follows characters who live on the precipice, where the foolish mistakes of young men can have devastating consequences.
Tour Schedule
Sunday, May 31 | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT
Bay Area Book Festival
Dark Nights of the Soul: Mental Health in Translation
with Jeremy Tiang and Tatiana Țîbuleac, moderated by Rita Bullwinkel
The Marsh Arts Center Cabaret, 2021 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Thursday, June 4 | 7:00 pm EDT
New York: Jeremy Tiang on Night Train with YZ Chin
Yu & Me Books, 44 Mulberry St., New York, NY
Saturday, June 6 | 7:00 pm EDT
Boston: Jeremy Tiang on Night Train with Eleanor Goodman
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Boston, MA
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and Sinophone translator. Recent translations include Liu Xinwu’s The Wedding Party, which was shortlisted for the National Translation Award, as well as novels by Zhang Yueran, Shuang Xuetao, Lo Yi-Chin, Yan Ge and Yeng Pway Ngon. Their novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. Earlier this year they were the Princeton University Translator-in-Residence, and served on the jury of the International Booker Prize. Originally from Singapore, they live in Flushing, Queens.
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Headshot and Belly Up. She is also the editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly. She lives in San Francisco.
YZ Chin is the author of Edge Case and Though I Get Home. Edge Case is a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR Books We Love pick. Though I Get Home won the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature honor title. YZ is also a translator of Mahua literature. Her translation of Smalltown Godzilla by Teng Kuan Kiat is forthcoming in January 2027. Her work has been supported by the National Endowments for the Arts and MacDowell as well as short-listed for a PEN Presents x International Booker Prize. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she lives in New York.
Eleanor Goodman is the author of two poetry collections, Nine Dragon Island and Lessons in Glass, and the translator of seven books from Chinese, including the forthcoming Assembly Line Sculpture: Selected Poems of Xu Lizhi, and 1966: Short Stories by Wang Xiaoni. She is the recipient of awards such as a Fulbright Fellowship to China, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, the Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, the Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Two Lines Press & CAT @ LITLIT
Visit us at LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair on June 6-7 in Los Angeles
Visit us at LITLIT on June 6-7 in Los Angeles
LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair is a free two-day festival celebrating West Coast literary culture and independent presses and magazines. Swing by our table to check out the latest Two Lines Press titles and chat with our staff!
Presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books(opens in a new tab), LITLIT offers local presses and literary arts organizations an opportunity to share their perspectives, books, and goods with Angelenos of all stripes. As part of LARB’s mission to increase access to the world of literary and cultural production, LITLIT aims to strengthen public and institutional support for independent presses. LITLIT will return in June 2026 for two full days of access to over 50 West Coast presses and literary organizations, as well as panel discussions and workshops, on June 6-7 at SCI-Arc(opens in a new tab) in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles.
Admission is free and registration(opens in a new tab) is encouraged. See the fair’s full program here(opens in a new tab). See you there!