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Enormous thank you to PEN America and the Open Book Award judges. Thrilled that Inheritors is a finalist -- congratulations to all!

Share some ♥️ today, and if you can, help refugee families this winter—join me in donating monthly to IRC - International Rescue Committee. The International Rescue Committee helps those shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and regain control of their future. help.rescue.org/donate/help-re…

This is super important -- please read this thread on the ongoing anti-Korean hate activities of the Japanese ultra-right. To repeat Grace, there's international interest in sexism in Japan right now, but that's not the only problem.

"As long as white supremacy is permitted to perpetuate a divide between Asian-Americans and Black and Indigenous people and other people of color, we can make no real progress against our common oppressor." Visceral reflection by Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾 🔸הֲדַסָּה on anti-Asian hate in America.

"How can we create fictions which pretend that there are always solutions, that there is actually closure, that life isn’t unpredictable and illogical much of the time?" Intriguing piece by Brian Castleberg on Nicola Barker, narrative forms, and writing in/through uncertainty.

Super pleased to be reading and talking with literary and cultural critic Maria Koundoura on Monday, March 1, 6:00PM EST at Emerson WLP. It's free, open to the public, and virtual (and we'll be taking questions!). Please join us: asakoserizawawlp.eventbrite.com

Startling to get the mail to discover a review of Inheritors in the NYRB! I'm full of gratitude for the space given to my book -- thank you, The New York Review of Books, and thank you, Tash Aw. nybooks.com/articles/2021/…

Calling translators of Japanese literature! Working on an as-yet-unpublished project? Submit it to the 2021 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize from the Department of Asian Studies Cornell University by August 1! Find out more here: asianstudies.cornell.edu/selden-prize

Congratulations, Deesha Philyaw!

Fukushima's 10th anniversary: I'm put in mind of Hideo Furukawa's HORSES, HORSES, IN THE END THE LIGHT REMAINS PURE, a novel that journeys to the wreckage, the trip an excavation of Japan's imperial history. I admired this slim, complex work. Columbia University Press cup.columbia.edu/book/horses-ho…

It was such a pleasure to discuss Inheritors on Critical Literary Consumption, a podcast that engages with writers and academics about a range of timely topics around writing, reading, and related textual issues. Thank you, a.NGUYEN, for the rich, textured conversation!

Pls support Asian American groups in #Atlanta like AdvancingJusticeATL who are in rapid response mode. The context of the #Atlanta shootings can't be missed. At a time of increasing hate targeting Asian Americans, Asian women are twice as likely to experience hate.

"It’s difficult to describe anti-Asian racism when society lacks a coherent, historical acct of what that racism actually looks like...The wave in question isn’t just two or three incidents. It’s a broader history that stretches past Trump & the pandemic." Let's make it legible.

Very excited to share the 7th episode with Deesha Philyaw who offers nuance as an alternative to binaries, careful critiques on the church, relationships, + absence of moralizing judgments. So sorry for loudly shrieking, Deesha, when you mentioned Olivia. anchor.fm/critlitconsump…

Calling poets, translators, and all lovers of language! Join us to celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth and Selected Translations—it includes poems from more than 40 poets from all over the world & is testimony to a life dedicated to the pursuit of beauty through poetry in translation.

Very excited to celebrate all the amazing Finalists at the 2021 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony tomorrow, THURSDAY APRIL 8, 7PM ET/4PM PT. Please join us! It's virtual and open to everyone. PEN America pen.org/event/2021-pen…