“Rolling the R’s” Forum Response: Sunyoung Lee
I never really thought about this before sitting down to write this, but editing is an incredibly intimate way to experience a book. It’s a bit like walking down the middle of empty, snow-covered...
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I met Zack Linmark in 1996. Rolling the R’s had just been released. Now, almost two decades later, Rolling has become a mainstay in my and many other Asian American literature classes across the United...
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This small book would not have survived if not for the scholars/professors/lecturers who taught, and continue to teach, it in their classes, in colleges/universities/high schools (excerpts, though I’ve...
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“Friend Request” by M. Evelina Galang “Vicente, hey. It’s me, Augustina. I don’t know if you remember me, but I did not forget you, Katrina, and Edgar. I was on my way to the Philippines. Nobody knew...
View ArticleA Review of Xu Xi’s “That Man in Our Lives,” by Jennifer Lee
Xu Xi, raised in Hong Kong but long occupying the “flight path connecting New York, Hong Kong, and the South Island of New Zealand,” might be called a writer of the diaspora. But diasporic stories...
View ArticleAfrican American Writers on China: A Dialogue – Afaa Michael Weaver, Kyle...
After my initial travels throughout eastern China in 2010, the writer and curator Fred Joiner made me aware of Hoke Glover’s (Bro. Yao’s) plans to travel there as well. We even began to bat around...
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View ArticleInterview: Naomi Hirahara and Ed Lin by Jinny Huh and Betsy Huang
October 2016 When Earl Derr Biggers created the first Asian American literary detective, Charlie Chan, in the 1920s, he did so in contrast to the Yellow Peril depictions of Asians and Asian Americans...
View ArticleOpen in Emergency: The Treated Pamphlet on Postpartum Depression
One of 6 pieces in Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health, the “Treated Pamphlet on Postpartum Depression” is a reworking of official PPD info-literature, a work of...
View ArticleOpen In Emergency Student Price ($25)
A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health Issues and Subscriptions Open in Emergency (includes Tarot deck) $25.00 USD Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health is...
View ArticleNORTH/SOUTH: Literary Atlas of Asians in the Americas, Excepting the U.S.
Table of Contents for NORTH/SOUTH: Literary Atlas of Asians in the Americas, Excepting the U.S. Issues and Subscriptions Single issue AALR v812, print $22.00 USD1-year AALR v8 subscription, print...
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A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health Issues and Subscriptions Open in Emergency (Tarot Deck Only) $18.00 USD Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health is AALR’s...
View ArticleFall/Winter 2017: Stateless
Table of Contents for Stateless Volume 8, Issue 2: Fall/Winter 2017 Issues and Subscriptions Single issue AALR v8i2, print $22.00 USD1-year AALR v8 subscription, print $36.00 USDSingle issue AALR...
View ArticleInterview: Kay Ulanday Barrett by Laura Kina
On November 16, 2016, I talked with poet Kay Ulanday Barrett about their book When the Chant Comes: Poems 2003-2016 (Topside Press, 2016). Kay or K. aka @brownroundboi self-identifies as navigating the...
View ArticleThe AALR Book of Curses
What is a curse in a broken world? A kind of intervention, a magic, other language that intervenes where existing language is not enough–or part of the problem. Continuing the work of the AALR Tarot...
View ArticleA Special Issue Celebrating Asian Arts Initiative’s 25th Anniversary
Table of Contents for History Place Presence: 25th Anniversary of Asian Arts Initiative Volume 9, Issue 2: Fall/Winter 2018 Issues and Subscriptions Single issue AALR v9i2, print $28.00 USD1-year...
View ArticleOpen In Emergency- Digital Version
A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health **Please note that the hard copies of both Open in Emergency and the Tarot decks have sold out, and this is the digital version of the issue. Thank...
View ArticleViet Thanh Nguyen Interviewed by Michael Collier
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s short story collection The Refugees was selected as the University of Maryland’s First Year Book for 2018-19, and as part of a two-day series of events launching a “Year of...
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