Tusen Takk features writers Jeremiah Chamberlin and Natalie Bakopoulos at The Alluvion

From staff reports

Join Tusen Takk artist-in-residence Jeremiah Chamberlin and writer Natalie Bakopoulos for an evening of literary conversation hosted in collaboration with the National Writers Series tonight, Aug. 3 from 7-8 pm at The Alluvion at Commongrounds in Traverse City. Click here to register for the event. Based near Leland, the Tusen Takk Foundation nourishes artists by giving them a place to work, engagement opportunities to enrich the culture of northwest Michigan, and a platform to share their work internationally.

Both Chamberlin and Bakopoulos are former Fulbright scholars whose writing is interested in issues of identity, belonging, national borders, and culture. Chamberlin will read from and discuss his hybrid memoir-in-progress which is about the year he spent living in and traveling across Bulgaria in 2017. Bakopoulos will read from and discuss her current novel-in-progress which takes place in the Balkans. Each of these projects is interested in time and distance, memory and personal history, and the complicated ways that individuals and cultures wrestle with the past.