Nanore Barsoumian

Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Nancy Kricorian On April 15, 2025, we hosted a special Literary Lights event featuring Nancy Kricorian, award-winning author of The Burning Heart of the World, in conversation with fellow writer, Nanore Barsoumian. The hybrid event took place at the NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building in Belmont, Massachusetts. In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale, The Burning Heart of the World is a sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City. Literary Lights 2025 is a monthly reading series organized by IALA, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. Each event—held online or in-person—will feature a writer reading from their work, followed by a discussion with an interviewer and audience members. Keep an eye on our website and socials for the exact dates of each event. Read along with the series by purchasing titles from the IALA Bookstore powered by Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/IALA © NAASR | David Medzorian

Psst! 💬 If you missed our Literary Lights event with author @nancykric.bsky.social and writer @nanoreb.bsky.social, don't worry. We've got you covered! ✨

Watch the full recording of the event on our YouTube channel here: bit.ly/4jgCP01

How do we live & write in the shadow of war, genocide, & loss? I spoke with @nancykric.bsky.social about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Full convo now on YouTube: youtu.be/o16QbnAqTVM?... Thanks NAASR, @armenianliterary.org , & Zobian Center for making this event possible #Armenian

“Can you feel like you belong to the country if you don’t have a village?”

The incredible @nancykric.bsky.social is coming to town on April 15, and she’ll join me at NAASR for a conversation about The Burning Heart of the World! Expect a reading, a discussion on craft and themes, and a book signing! #BostonBooks

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Love and exile lock horns in Nancy Kricorian’s Beirut war novel The Burning Heart of the World By Nancy Kricorian Red Hen Press (April 1, 2025) 216 pages, $17.95 What does it take to leave behind home and community when war ravages your city? What does [...]

Today in The #Armenian Weekly, my review of ‘The Burning Heart of the World’ by @nancykric.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 armenianweekly.com/2025/02/25/l...

The paperback of this book was just released! Mine is the last chapter! If you read it/I hope you like it! #Armenian www.bloomsbury.com/us/after-the...

This print by Paul Bommer hangs over my desk. I just read a great art review by @hrag.bsky.social, which made me gaze at it—as I often do. I’m posting it because I love it. And why not.

An illustration of the United States with nationalistic labels based on Donald Trump’s proposals.

In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, a new nearly legal map of the United States, updated by the hour.
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