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Update #6: KICKSTARTER REWARDS - STATUS UPDATE
Hello all,
Thanks to your generous support for our project, we have not only met our funding goal, we have also surpassed last year's total by nearly $4K!
Just a few notes:
- We are working on getting rewards out to their respective backers, and will soon be sending out surveys requesting pertinent information, so please keep an eye out for that email.
- Credit cards will be charged next week.
Update #5: KICKSTARTER PRIZES
Hey all,
Thank you all for your support of PAGE TURNER 2011! Thanks to your support, we met our goal AND we beat last year's numbers! We're currently working toward distributing backer rewards to their rightful owners so keep an eye out for an email survey to come soon, and feel free to contact us with any questions about claimed -- or unclaimed -- rewards.
Thank you again!
Update #4: Update #4 -- TICKETS FOR PAGE TURNER 2011
Hello all,
If you back our Kickstarter project after 6:00 PM on Friday, October 28, 2011, and your pledge includes a single-event, full-day and/or Afterword party pass, please bring a mobile display or print-out of your confirmation email from Kickstarter for admission.
Thanks everyone!
Update #3: PAGE TURNER admission!
If your pledge comes with admission to PAGE TURNER (this Saturday: http://www.pageturnerfest.org), we will have your name at the door.
Update #2: We hit $5,000! Let's keep going!
Thanks everyone! We passed our target $5,000 yesterday with an incredible two weeks left to go before Page Turner. It's been exhilarating. Let's keep going to see if we can raise more for the Page Turner Festival. It would be great if we could break last year's number!
There are more great prizes still coming in, thanks to the generosity of the Asian American creative community and others. Keep an eye out and spread the word.
Thanks all!
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The Asian American Writers' Workshop on October 19, 2011
NEW PRIZE: Chat with literary agent Chris Parris-Lamb of The Gernert Company, who represents literary fiction writers including Chad Harbach and Hillary Jordan and nonfiction writers of many different stripes, from Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl to the game designer Jane McGonigal!
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The Asian American Writers' Workshop on October 21, 2011
NEW PRIZE: A lesson with accomplished violinist Yibin Li, who has placed first in various competitions including the 2001 Artists International Competition in New York City, and is currently a visiting professor at both Xi'an Conservatory of Music and Beijing Central University for Normal Studies.
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You will receive a DVD of THE CHINATOWN FILM PROJECT (http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/chinatown_film_project), a collection of 10 short films about Chinatown by filmmakers such as Wayne Wang (the Joy Luck Club), Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl), Amir Nadiro (The Runner) and Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre) PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass to PAGE TURNER.
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Rare, back-issue copy of the Asian Pacific American Journal. PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed copy of "My Mom is a FOB: Earnest Advice in Broken English from Your Asian-American Mom," released in January 2011, based on the always-awesome mymomisafob.com website. PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed copy of "Fail Harder: Ridiculous Illustrations of Epic Fails," released in September 2011, featuring a pictorial collection of fails from all over the world PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a $15 gift certificate to New York City's Xi'an Famous Foods, usable at all locations PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a rare back-issue copy of the Asian Pacific American Journal. PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed cookbook from Candice Kumai--a celebrity chef from Top Chef and Cook Yourself Thin--AND a basket of pure dark chocolate PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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Lunch with political columnist and The Daily writer Reihan Salam at his favorite Bengali restaurant in New York City, Haveli. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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A signed paperback copy of Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed a signed copy of celebrated Boston baker Joanna Chang's recipe book "Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe." Highly rated on Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/9axJ21). PLUS your name will appear on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a copy of Columbia Law professor Tim Wu's book, "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires", from Knopf. Wu coined the term "Net Neutrality." "Master Switch" is highly rated on Amazon (http://amzn.to/cMqnEM). PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Signed books by comic artist Greg Pak, who has worked for Marvel and on titles such as Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a one-week pass to the Reebok Sports Club on the Upper West Side where you can work your body and your mind PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed book by Yiyun Li, who is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, and on the The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of talented young fiction writers. PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a weekend group walking tour of New York City Chinatown street food with Jennifer 8. Lee, author of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," with a choice of at least three dates in Fall or Spring 2012, depending on demand and skeds. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have a poetry consultation with the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Executive Director, Ken Chen. Ken Chen is the author of Juvenilia, and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets— the oldest annual literary prize in the country—selected by former Poet Laureate Louise Gluck. Juvenilia was American Poet's Notable Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in Best American Essays, The Boston Review of Books, Jubilat and Fence. He is a Bread Loaf Fellow and NYFA Fellow. PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a pair of tickets to attend a rehearsal/workshop for Obie-award winning avant-garde playwright Young Jean Lee's upcoming production UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, described as "a hilariously disorienting approach to ... the subject of feminism...UFS will seduce with contradictory images of women, intensifying and proliferating a sense of female beauty and power that goes beyond the limited options we’ve all been trained to desire." The prize will include a signed script of either THE SHIPMENT or SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN. New York Magazine calls Young Jean Lee "the clearest indication that the avant-garde isn't dead, and has never been funnier," and The New Yorker says that her plays "offer the pleasure of brazen theatrical inventiveness." PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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A signed hardcover copy of Amy Tan's "The Bone Setter's Daughter" PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a one hour one-on-one poetry workshop with Monica Youn, 2010 National Book Award nominee. Monica Youn is the author of BARTER (Graywolf Press, 2003) and IGNATZ (Four Way Books, 2010). She has taught poetry at Columbia University and Pratt Institute and has been awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship and the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship, among other awards. The prize will include signed copies of both of Youn's books, as well as a signed broadside PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a Sudoku puzzle - custom-designed with your name - from Wei-Hua Huang, national Sudoku Champion. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Flailing over your law school app essay? Ken Chen's here for YOU. He will give you extensive, personalized feedback on your law school application essay. After graduating from Yale Law School, Ken Chen went on to work at Hughes, Hubbard and Reed LLP., where he helped gain asylum for a Guinean American teenager. The case was named one of the top ten most significant cases of 2007 by American Lawyer and profiled by The New York Post, Essence and The New York Times. PLUS you'll get your name on our website, and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER!
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Are you (or is someone you know) applying to law school? Extensive personalized feedback on your law school application essay by David Lat, founder of AboveTheLaw.com, former former federal prosecutor and Harvard and Yale Law School graduate. Lat's writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, New YorkObserver, and Wonkette PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Make your momma proud and take a violin lesson with Yibin Li, who has performed in China and the United States. A graduate of Shanghai Conservatory, the Julliard School and the Mannes School of Music, she has won first place at various competitions including the Artist International Competition in 2001, and the Syracuse University Concerto Competition in 1999. She is currently a visiting professor at both Xi'an Conservatory of Music and Beijing Central University for Normal Studies. PLUS you'll get your name on our website plus a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have Bao lunch with Eddie Huang of BaoHaus fame PLUS your name on the website PLUS a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive an autographed book from literary giant Salman Rushdie, whose novels include The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Enchantress of Florence, Fury, and the 1981 winner of the Booker Prize, Midnight's Children. The book is backer's choice. PLUS you'll get your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You'll receive a copy of "Failed Asian American Sitcom Treatments," a limited edition, hand-made 'zine by Hua Hsu (Grantland, the Atlantic) and Ed Park (Personal Days, the Believer), PLUS you'll get your name on our site and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have lunch at the Google offices in Mountain View, CA PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a 30 minute conference call with Juliet Grames, senior editor at Soho Press, to review the first 25 pages of a manuscript, query letter, and author bio PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will crunch numbers during a session with NYC-based accountant Ray Sek PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed paperback gift set of "The Joy Luck Club," "The Kitchen God's Wife," and "A Hundred Secret Senses," by Amy Tan PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Kristina Moore of The Wylie Agency will read your manuscript and then have a 30-minute phone consultation with you PLUS you'll get your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive an hour-long coaching lesson from Lori Zeglarski, who played Christine in various European productions of The Phantom of the Opera PLUS your name on our website PLUS a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive an hour-long piano lesson with accomplished pianist Celine J. Yim, who has written a text on Rachmaninoff PLUS your name on our website PLUS a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a one hour phone consultation with Kirby Kim of William Morris Endeavors, and one of Poets & Writers Magazine's Game Changing literary agents PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have lunch in The New York Times cafeteria. Time must be scheduled. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will breathe a little easier come April 15th because of the tax-consultation you'll have with Ron Ostermann PLUS you'll get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed broadsheet of Maxine Hong Kingston, who wrote, among other works, "China Men", "Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book," "Through the Black Curtain," and "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts," the most commonly taught text in modern universities PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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Ayesha Pande of Ayesha Pande Literary (http://pandeliterary.com/) will read the first 50-100 pages of your manuscript and then have a 20-30 minute phone consultation with you PLUS you will get your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a phone consultation with literary agent Jin Auh of The Wylie Agency (www.wylieagency.com), which represents luminaries like Justin Torres, Alexander Chee, Martin Amis and Karan Mahajan PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER. (1 available, $200)
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You'll have coffee with Chris Parris-Lamb. CPL is a literary agent at The Gernert Company, where he represents literary fiction writers including Chad Harbach and Hillary Jordan, and nonfiction writers of many different stripes, from Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl to the game designer Jane McGonigal. PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will have lunch -- and a tour -- at Facebook's offices in Palo Alto PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You'll get a complete, thirteen-issue set of the legendary, self-published 1990s New York 'zine, ego trip. Hip-hop, punk rock, skateboarding, racism: "the arrogant voice of musical truth" took on everything before taking over TV ("The (White) Rapper Show" on VH1), books (The Book of Rap Lists) and now the Internet (egotripland.com) PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive an hour long guitar lesson from Damon Marks, who has collaborated with the likes of Bret Michaels and Tommy Aldridge, and toured with the amazing Alicia Keys PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive one pair of VIP tickets to the Shorty Awards, which honor the best of the best in producing short-form, real-time social media content PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a reading done for you by astrologer Ashok Motiani PLUS your name on your website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Enjoy a five-star view of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the most celebrated Thanksgiving event in NYC. You and a friend can take in the sights on a ninth floor wrap-around balcony at 6th Avenue near Bryant Park, and enjoy a New York brunch with lox and bagels. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have coffee with Alexis Ohanian, the Brooklyn-based cofounder of Reddit, founder of Breadpig, and angel investor at Das Kapital Capital, LLC. PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Songwriter and funny girl extraordinaire Jen Kwok (as seen in "Eat, Pray, Love or on www.jenkwok.com) will compose a personalized ukulele song either about you or to your specifications. You'll receive an mp3 of your song and handwritten lyrics -- PLUS you'll get your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will have an in-person consultation with literary agent Jin Auh of The Wylie Agency (www.wylieagency.com), which represents luminaries like Justin Torres, Alexander Chee, Martin Amis and Karan Mahajan PLUS your name on our website PLUS a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Want feedback on a demo? Want to start a record label? Need advice about the music business? A thirty minute session (in-person or Skype) with Kris Chen, head of XL Recordings in America (Vampire Weekend, the xx, Sigur Rós, Tyler, the Creator) and formerly of Domino (Franz Ferdinand, Four Tet).
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Have coffee with Ben Choi, a Venture Partner at Maveron, who recently became CEO at a new startup, coffee table, an app which is bringing catalog shopping to the iPad. PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have coffee with Haider Akmal an associate from Rho Ventures, the oldest VC firm in NYC. Haider joined Rho in 2008 after working at McKinsey & Company, where he focused on corporate strategy, business development efforts and buyout transactions for private equity clients. He also founded and led his own real estate investment firm. His interests include biotechnology, nanotechnology and energy.
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Have coffee or lunch at Quora in Palo Alto with Charlie Cheever, the cofounder of Quora and formerly of Facebook. Scheduled at your own convenience. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Lunch for two with Obie-award and Tony-award winning playwright David Henry Hwang, who penned "FOB," "M. Butterfly," and "Golden Child," and whose new play, "Chinglish" is set to open on Broadway this month after a successful run at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. Lunch must be scheduled. PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee or design consultation with Garry Tan in Silicon Valley. He is a venture partner at YCombinator, co-founder of Posterous, and an early at Palantir PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Lunch at MTV Studios with Nusrat Durrani, plus, must be scheduled, a viewing of a shoot. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have coffee with Carey Lai, who is an Investment Director at Intel Capital. His interests include Internet and digital media. PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee with James Cham, principal of Trinity Ventures, in Silicon Valley. He focuses on consumer services, social media and digital media. PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee with Jon Sakoda, a partner at NEA, in Silicon Valley. Jon focuses on information technology and energy investments, and co-manages nea:seed, NEA’s internal seed investment program.
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Have an hour-long coffee in Palo Alto, California with David Lee, a partner in SV Angel, an angel fund started by Ron Conway, whose investments included Paypal and Google. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee with Wesley Chan in Silicon Valley. He is a partner at Google Ventures, who founded and launched, among others, Google Voice and Google Analytics. PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have an hour-long coffee with Harj Taggar, a partner at Y Combinator PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a two-hour private walking tour of New York City Chinatown street food with Jennifer 8. Lee for up to six people. Includes food. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You and up to four of your friends will have a personal tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fifteen (15!) new galleries of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and later, South Asia on a Monday when the museum is closed to the public PLUS a compilation CD PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a sublime four-course dinner for eight of Philippine cuisine and wine, served at the elegant TAMA Studios of interior design in Chelsea at a date of your choice. Entertain your friends in luxurious surroundings. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a consultation with Hussein Kanji in San Francisco OR New York City, OR over the phone from London. He is an angel investor and advisor to several early-stage start-ups including Exclusively.in, Jaycut, Signpost, AND Eros International Plc, the largest Bollywood company in the world PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You and four friends will receive tickets to our PAGE TURNER Kickoff Dinner honoring Jessica Hagedorn. The dinner will take place on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:00 PM at Maharlika Filipino Moderno in NYC PLUS get your name on the website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee with Paul Graham in Silicon Valley. He is an essayist, programmer, venture capitalist and cofounder of YCombinator and ViaWeb (which later became Yahoo! Store) PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Founded in 1991, The Asian American Writers' Workshop is the preeminent national nonprofit arts organization devoted to great writing by Asian Americans--many of whom are cut off from the arts. We want to nurture all Asian American writers, whether they're Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, whose first book party we hosted, or a struggling young writer just graduating from school. We are one of the most active Asian American groups and literary groups in New York--and we're growing.