Book Tour Dates for TRAVELING IN BARDO!
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TRAVELING IN BARDO (Hachette) by Ann Tashi Slater '84 launches on September 9.
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Ann Tashi Slater ’84 Interviews Maggie Smith
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Ann Tashi Slater talked with poet and writer Maggie Smith about finding possibility in periods of upheaval, and the freedom of having your life implode. Smith is the best-selling author of poetry collections, including GOOD BONES, and a memoir, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL; her latest book, DEAR WRITER: PEP TALKS & PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR THE CREATIVE LIFE, explores creativity on the page and in life. https://tricycle.org/article/on-not-knowing-and-making-this-place-beautiful/?utm_campaign=00662834&utm_source=p3s4h3r3s
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater’s New Book Is a Next Big Idea Club Pick! (Gladwell, Grant, Cain & Pink)
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TRAVELING IN BARDO: THE ART OF LIVING IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD (Hachette, Sept. 9) has been selected as a September 2025 “Must Read” by the Next Big Idea Club, a nonfiction book club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink.
Read MoreTRAVELING IN BARDO: THE ART OF LIVING IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD by Ann Tashi Slater '84 is available for pre-order!
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Ann Tashi Slater’s new book, TRAVELING IN BARDO: THE ART OF LIVING IN AN IMPERMANENT WORLD (Hachette, Sept. 9), is now available for pre-order!
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 Interviews Anderson Cooper
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Ann Tashi Slater talked with Cooper about loss, grief, and the biggest question he's wrestling with now.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater Interviews Katherine May
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How can we lean into the changes that life inevitably brings? In her latest conversation about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater talked with Katherine May about being prepared for change and finding new insight during times of transition.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater Interviews Bianca Bosker ‘08
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In day-to-day life, we often fall into well-worn grooves of perception, not noticing much of what’s around us. How can we see our everyday world in new ways?
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater Interviews Cheryl Strayed
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What can we do when the world as we know it ends? Ann Tashi Slater talked about this with author Cheryl Strayed, who hiked 1100 miles from the Mojave Desert to Washington State in search of answers after the death of her mother.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater Talks With Malcolm Gladwell
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"I’ve realized there’s no reason to be surprised by change," Malcolm Gladwell says. "In fact, we should be suspicious of its absence, not surprised by its presence."
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 talks with Julia Alvarez
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“The way life is shot through with loss and gain is the painful beauty of being alive,” says Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez, one of America’s most celebrated Latina authors.
Read More"Don't Miss Your Life" - Ann Tashi Slater talks with American Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein
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Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with leading American Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein about coming to terms with loss and not missing your life.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater '84 interviews Alan Lightman '70
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Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with physicist, author, and Princeton alum Alan Lightman (Class of ’70) about happiness, hidden knowledge, and living our lives with an awareness of death.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater in Conversation with Amitava Kumar
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In her latest interview about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with Amitava Kumar about the power of our personal and collective stories, how he has come to terms with his father’s death, and art as a site of both mourning and hope.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater interviews Lorrie Moore
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Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with author Lorrie Moore about humor, grief, and how to live—and die—in a world of impermanence. Moore is one of America’s most acclaimed writers, described by Alison Lurie as “the nearest thing we have to Chekhov.”
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater interviews Yiyun Li
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“Grief doesn’t narrow you down, it expands you,” author and Princeton professor Yiyun Li told Ann Tashi Slater '84, in On Grief, Willpower, and Finding Happiness, the latest in Ann’s interview series about bardo and the art of living.
Read MoreEssay by Ann Tashi Slater '84 is Narrative Magazine "Story of the Week"
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Ann Tashi Slater’s "Light and Shadow” is Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine. In this memoir, Ann explores her quest to understand the dissolution of her parents’ marriage and the disintegration of her family. She writes about “memories and ghosts, the power of the imagination and the spirit, the things we don’t know or cannot know.”
Read MoreInterview with Author David James Duncan
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Ann Tashi Slater '84 spoke with David James Duncan--author of the best-selling novels THE RIVER WHY and THE BROTHERS K--about his new novel, SUN HOUSE, and how he has made his way forward during bardo periods of struggle and impermanence.
Read MoreInterview with Isabel Allende by Ann Tashi Slater
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Ann Tashi Slater '84 talked with best-selling Chilean-American author Isabel Allende, author of THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, about displacement, exile, and the search for home. “I have had no control over the most important losses that I’ve experienced,” Allende said. “The only thing I can control is how I react, so I just plunge into whatever comes and say yes to life.”
Read MoreBook Deal: Traveling in Bardo
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Ann Tashi Slater's TRAVELING IN BARDO will be published by Hachette Go in fall 2025.
Read MoreAnn Tashi Slater interviews novelist Andrew Sean Greer
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“Humor is very connected to the deep things in life,” author Andrew Sean Greer told Ann Tashi Slater '84 in the latest interview for her Tricycle magazine series about bardo and the art of living.
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