Susan Choi to read on 2/10 in NYC http://www.emergingarts.com/ Tue FEB 10, 7:30pm: CUPCAKE Yes, "chick lit" is SO over. It's time for dessert! CUPCAKE is the monthly reading series for New York's best women writers. SUSAN CHOI and LAURIE SANDELL. Join us! Place: Lolita, located on the Lower East Side, 266 Broome St. @ Allen (Subway: F to Delancey). Door: Free More info: Please sign

From The Onion Susan Choi American Woman (HarperCollins) The would-be revolutionaries in American Woman, Susan Choi's elegant re-imagining of the murky aftermath of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga, are defined by their fractured incompleteness. Jenny, the novel's brilliantly sketched protagonist, is a quietly capable Asian-American activist whose father is hopelessly scarred by his stint

From the L.A. Times --THE BEST BOOKS OF 2003 Best of the best By Steve Wasserman December 7 2003 The holiday season is upon us, and from every corner we find ourselves asked to make sense of the avalanche of books that threatens to bury us in tale upon tale. It is, of course, the work of Sisyphus, but we'd have it no other way. More than 100,000 books are annually published in the

NY Times Notable Books 2003 AMERICAN WOMAN. By Susan Choi. (HarperCollins, $24.95.) A fictional account of the intersection of the radical activist Wendy Yoshimura with the fugitive Patty Hearst, who appeared to have adopted the values and perspectives of the revolutionaries who kidnapped her in 1974. The revolutionary life, it turns out, is mainly squalor and dulled anxiety; time outwears

A Change in the Weather By LAURA MILLER Published: November 30, 2003 In the documentary film ''The Weather Underground,'' Mark Rudd, now teaching at a community college, describes what happens when his students ask him what he did during the Vietnam era: ''I tell them I helped found an organization whose goal was the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, and they look at me like I'm

They're calling it one of the Best Books of the Year. Who are we to disagree? American Woman in Publishers Weekly "Choi gives great, grainy psychological depth and texture to her fictionalized account of the Patty Hearst kidnapping, brilliantly capturing the claustrophobic nature of underground political life in the 1970s."

COMMUNIQUE NO. 4 Greetings to the People: Comrades, we have more victories to report. "American Woman" received a rave review on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air" today. The New York battalion of Susan Choi's Army can listen to a repeat broadcast tonight (Monday October 27) on 820 AM. The show begins at 7pm; the review will probably air at around 7:45. If you are hiding out