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Supreme Court rejects Navajo suit seeking more water for their reservation - Los Angeles Times apple.news/ANa2FPL_nRAO0z…

'Confinement can be a state of mind, not only a prison of the senses.' Great article Lillian Howan

Our June selection, “Interior Chinatown” by Charles Yu's considers the illusions that structure consciousness, writes Lillian Howan
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Step into a world of faux-reality with Charles Yu's “Interior Chinatown.” Lillian Howan unravels the layers of this mesmerizing novel, exposing the bitter truths and illusions that lurk beneath the surface.
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'Confinement can be a state of mind, not only a prison of the senses. Yu’s novel probes how limits imposed from outside can be internalized, shaping consciousness.' Lillian Howan reflects on Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown at California Book Club ✨

Honored to write this reflection on Charles Yu ‘s dazzling Interior Chinatown & the 18th century classic Dream of the Red Chamber for California Book Club. many thanks @AnitaFelicelli

Surfing Sisterhood Hawaii gets a shout from Star-Advertiser Pat Gee ! Mindy is soooo summer fun #mindypennybacker 💪🏽🌊💪🏽❤️

Karin Spirn's article highlights the powerful message conveyed by Charles Yu's novel, “Interior Chinatown.” It exposes the struggles faced by Asian American actors, mirroring the characters in the book who yearn to be seen beyond narrow stereotypes.
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a silent moon above
flowering fields and
a sighing ocean

Buson

A collection of stories and poems that takes on contemporary masculinity, and so creatively alters the expected plots. I love the playfulness and the weight of these pieces.
Thank you Donna Lee Miele Lillian Howan some perfect future Rachel King and so many others!!

Fantastic #Litquake reading last night by MariNaomi (they/them) of I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME in conversation w Grace Loh Prasad 駱信惠! In the audience, delighted to see Susan Kiyo Ito & Patricia Wakida, photo with Grace Loh Prasad 駱信惠 of THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER. Also: caroline kim who drank nonalcoholic w Lupus me

Moetai Brotherson THE MISSING KING, Jean Anderson translator. Brilliant & hallucinatory by Moetai Brotherson who will likely & rightfully should be President of French Polynesia this week.
KAHI AND LUA: Tales of the First and the Second, by Melissa Llanes Brownlee Melissa Llanes Brownlee #AAPIMonth

Thrilled that my novel The Spellbound will be published by WTAW (Why There Are Words) Press! Thank you WTAW Press and the wondrous Peg Alford Pursell !

Travel with Senen Kaisi, a young Shipibo woman from Santa Isabel de Bahuanisho, as she makes her way to the retreating edge of an ancestral forest, which once stretched all the way to her village. “The Forest Beyond” by Jeremy Seifert and Fred Bahnson. emergencemagazine.org/film/the-fores…

Mount Tamalpias in the distance & the fog karl the fog

'Spitz’s writing is notable for its incantatory quality, fusing the cadenced acoustic patterns of traditional oral storytelling with the evocative digressions of contemporary verse'

Jeffrey Zuckerman on Chantal T. Spitz in this week's The TLS

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Il est tête de liste du Tavini Huiraatira arrivé en tête au 1er Tour des territoriales dimanche dernier : le député Moetai Brotherson sera le prochain Président de Polynésie Française si le Tavini, comme il le dit lui-même réussit à… dlvr.it/Smq649 Tahiti Polynesie

Friends, I’ve been sitting on this news for awhile but I am **overjoyed** to share that my memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER will be published in Spring 2024 by The Ohio State University Press in their Machete series!!! 🎉🎉🎉 😭😭😭

Thanks to Susan Kiyo Ito for this gorgeous calligraphy 🧡🧡

MAY is AAPI month! I realize that folks are getting lists, posts and panels ready to celebrate, so we* put together some graphics of newer books*** created by Pacific Islanders to help anyone searching for these types of stories. (🧵