"Chang’s writing has a fluidity & cleverness about it that I appreciate...I love that this story is unapologetically unique and I love that the author did not hold back." - Kat on Abraham Chang's 888 Love & the Divine Burden of Numbers Read here: soapberryreview.com/?p=3975

RIP Professor Gary Okihiro. In our brief interview he spoke of African history, his own education, his garden, and thanked “my dearest students, my best teachers.” ritm.yale.edu/about/faculty/…

Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its 2025 Global Asias Summer Institute, "The Institutional Forms of Global Asias." The application deadline is January 17, 2025. Please visit our website: bit.ly/4bSUbg3 or see flyer for details

Join us this June for the first two book clubs of our summer book club series led by Justine Trinh & Audrey. The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu💅🏼 June 8, 5:00 p.m. PST Stranger Intimacy by Nayan Shah June 29, 5:00 p.m. PST RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

"What struck me the most about Cinema Love was the way it handles the topic of love versus care, the way [Jiaming] Tang questions what is love and what does it look like." - Audrey Read review here: soapberryreview.com/?p=3900

This week, Ariel N. Banayan asks of porochista khakpour she/her پوروچیستا خاکپور's Tehrangeles, "How can one authentically depict a community that exists beyond the believability of satire itself? What happens when reality eclipses the ridiculous & outlandish dimensions of satire?" Read here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4105

hello everyone, i wrote a book review on a book about rich persians in la and the limits of satire, especially when it comes to people and actions existing beyond the realm of satire itself

Announcing the 29th winner of the #WomensPrize for Fiction – V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan with her novel Brotherless Night. Congratulations Sugi! With thanks to our sponsors @Audible_UK and Baileys #WomensPrize

SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A

"Your book [dear elia] is changing and saving lives: I can personally attest to this. This book is a reminder that we are not alone in our unwellness, and we must weather it together if we want to survive." Read Justine Trinh's letter to Mimi Khúc here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4103

"@aimeenez’s Bite by Bite is truly nourishing...her experiences shed light on how connected we are w/ the food we often take for granted. Let our soul feel satiated w/ our experiences through ulam & our identities through kanin." - Akira Park Read here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4109

Happy 101st birthday to poet Mitsuye Yamada Poet! Today, we're celebrating with an interview between Mitsuye and Asian American lit scholar, Justine Trinh, about her poetry collection, Full Circle! 🎂 Read here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4195

"Each story is pleasantly offbeat, dyed in brutal honesty and occasionally sparkling with something like joie de vivre." - frankie m 🌿 on @iamlisako's Memory Piece Read review here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4068

Sending solidarity to all my Appalachia anothers today. Honored to have these words up at The Guardian. Please give them a read. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…