Join us for a celebration of writer Zara Chowdhary's memoir The Lucky Ones, in conversation with Nur Nasreen Ibrahim! Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Zara Chowdhary's memoir The Lucky Ones! Zara will be joined by journalist, television producer, and writer Nur Nasreen Ibrahim. In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old […]
Join Dr. Poon and award-winning journalist Kimmy Yam as they discuss race relations and inequality, affirmative action, and diversity and nuances of the Asian American experience. No RSVP required. Book, Asian American is Not a Color by Dr. OiYan A. Poon: A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race […]
Join Asian American Writers' Workshop and Reorienting Reads to share space for a bicoastal evening! Join Asian American Writers' Workshop and Reorienting Reads to share space for a luminous bicoastal evening of connection and kinship, uplifting our trans, intersex, non-binary, and gender expansive communities. We'll be joined in person and through the ether by Ally […]
Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how to bring the vibrant flavors of Indonesian cuisine into your own kitchen! Can’t attend in person? Register for virtual participation The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to an insightful discussion with acclaimed food writer and cookbook author Patricia Tanumihardja, as she explores her latest […]
Trailblazing journalist Connie Chung tells all in her witty and insightful debut memoir. From iconic interviews to behind-the-scenes showdowns, Connie tracks a groundbreaking career of tenacious reporting, following Chung from local TV to the world stage as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated industry. In conversation with Andy Cohen (Watch What Happens Live with […]
Rumaan Alam comes to the Thalia Book Club for an in-depth discussion of his first book since the highly lauded Leave the World Behind. Taut and unsettling, Entitlement is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination that explores the seductive distortions of money. In conversation with Vinson Cunningham (Great Expectations), and featuring a reading from the novel by Tony nominee Crystal […]
Join Yu & Me Books at New Design High School to celebrate the paperback launch of Same Bed Different Dreams with author, Ed Park! In conversation with Ava Chin ABOUT THE BOOK A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and […]
Join us for a celebration of writer Emily Jungmin Yoon's Find Me as the Creature I Am, in conversation with Monica Sok and Sally Wen Mao! Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Emily Jungmin Yoon's Find Me as the Creature I Am! Emily will be joined by writers Monica Sok and Sally […]
Writer Amanda Lee Koe joins us to discuss her new book, Sister Snake, with Actress Zoë Chao. A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife […]
Join Yu & Me Books at New Design High School to celebrate the book launch of with Homeseeking author, Karissa Chen! ABOUT THE BOOK An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your […]
An absorbing, exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in […]
Come celebrate the launch of American Fever & River East, River West paperbacks with us in Brooklyn! Welcome to the American Fever & River East, River West Paperback Launch Party! Join us at BARZAKH• CAFÉ for a night of celebration as we introduce our latest paperback releases. Meet the authors, mingle with fellow readers, enjoy […]
Join BPL Presents as Katie Kitamura takes the Dweck stage to discuss Audition, an exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough […]
Join us for an evening with acclaimed journalist and author Barbara Demick for the book launch of her latest work, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, prizing winning author and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick, embarks on a journey following the lives of Fangfang and Shuangjie — twins separated at birth — and the extraordinary efforts to […]
Join AAPIWL for a conversation with Nicole Chung on A Living Remedy— grief, care, & the broken U.S. healthcare system. Join us for a meaningful conversation with author Nicole Chung as we explore her memoir A Living Remedy—a deeply personal story about grief, family, and navigating the failures of the U.S. healthcare system. Nicole shares […]
David Henry Hwang, “A Pioneering Playwright, Librettist, Screenwriter” on October 7, 2025 at 6 pm ET. Dear Friends, We are pleased to invite you to attend the sixth Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event that will feature David Henry Hwang, “A Pioneering Playwright, Librettist, Screenwriter” on October 7, 2025 at 6 […]
Join us for an online conversation with Nicole Wong, author of “Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora.” Nicole will share how playing mahjong with her grandparents helped her preserve their Chinese New Zealand family history and cultural legacy. She will also share family stories and offer tips on how to start documenting your […]