Event

Join us on April 2, 2025, for a co-sponsored event featuring Sameer Pandya, author of the novel Members Only and the forthcoming Our Beautiful Boys.

 Hosted by Professors Bakirathi Mani and Piyali Bhattacharya

Sameer Pandya is the author of the novel Members Only, a finalist for the California Book Award and an NPR “Books We Love” of 2020, and the story collection The Blind Writer, longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. His cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Salon, and Sports Illustrated. A recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship, he is currently an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Co-sponsors:

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (Annenberg)

Center for the Advanced Study of India

Creative Writing Program