We're throwing a Lunar New Year celebration with Hachette Book Group. Come along to this reading & party featuring @curtischin, kat chow, Janine Joseph, Subhashini Kaligotla, sahar muradi, & the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses, & hosted by youngmi mayer. 🧧

Thursday, February 15th, 6–9 PM ET.

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lots to unpack about this woman who's dedicated all this time to getting books banned, but where to even begin—

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this was an excellent convo

HIGHLY recommend a listen to the @slate plus segment where tanvi and I talk about the show MADE IN HEAVEN.

This kat chow piece stabbed me in the heart.

As a fading Cantonese speaker, I'm planning for my cousins in Hong Kong (or my husband's in Japan) to take my son for summers when he's older. I just don't know any other way to do this than how we did it.

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'Efforts to suppress languages other than English were present even in the country’s earliest days....In the U.S., bringing a heritage language back into a family usually comes down to the efforts of individuals.' Thank you for sharing our story The Atlantic kat chow.

this incredible piece by kat chow hit me right in the heart, as someone on a journey to learn an endangered language so i can hopefully pass it down one day. 🩵

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'To be proficient in a language makes you not merely a cultural spectator that passively enjoys food or classic films with subtitles, but an active participant. You can contribute information...you can entertain others with your wit; you can give rather than just take.' -kat chow

Pulled out my (distant) past life in a college sorority to help produce this episode of The Waves. I find the yearly “I can’t stop watching #BamaRushTok ”convo pretty tired most of the time, but this interview w/ kat chow and Tressie McMillan Cottom felt quite fresh. slate.com/podcasts/the-w…

it’s been months and i still can’t quite believe this is real. i am endlessly grateful and excited for this book to exist in the world.

I wanna listen to some audiobooks (novels) in Mandarin or Cantonese. Something light & fun & that I could still follow even though I have very basic Chinese. Any recs?