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SUMMARY:Book Talk | Carryout by Hasan Dudar
DESCRIPTION:A Poets & Writers First Fiction 2026 Debut SelectionIn the late 1970s\, Ziad Idilbi a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon\, marries Salma\, a Lebanese refugee escaping the war in Beirut. Resolving to start over for the very last time\, the couple opens a corner store in Toledo\, Ohio. Over the decades\, whether it’s bigotry (pre- and post-9/11)\, financial ruin\, or terminal illness\, the Idilbis find themselves on life’s outskirts\, always seemingly one day away from catastrophe. The linked stories in Carryout follow Walid Idilbi\, the youngest child of Ziad and Salma\, as he navigates the heartbreaks of youth\, the many colorful characters from Toledo’s Arab community\, and growing up into a writer. Unsure at times whether to run toward each other or away from each other\, the characters in Dudar’s exquisite debut suffer the absurdities and indignities of life in America with wry obstinance and striking wisdom. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\nHasan Dudar is the author of Carryout\, a forthcoming short story collection with the University of Iowa Press. He is originally from Toledo\, Ohio\, and currently lives with his wife and daughter in Washington\, DC\, where he works in broadcast media. His fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast and Pinch\, among other places\, and was awarded the 2025 Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. A graduate of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism\, Hasan’s reporting has appeared in various publications including USA Today\, Detroit Free Press\, The Toledo Blade\, Bloomberg News\, TRT World\, and Aljazeera America. In 2015\, he co-produced the award-winning documentary The Last of Little Syria\, which follows some of the last Arab American residents living in Toledo\, Ohio’s historic Arab enclave. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \n\n\nReena Shah is the author of the novel Every Happiness and the forthcoming story collection Bad Neighbors. Her work has appeared in swamp pink\, Lit Hub\, Debutiful\, Electric Literature\, the Masters Review\, Joyland\, BBC\, The Guardian\, and National Geographic\, among others. She is the recipient of a Steinbeck Fellowship\, the Keene Prize in Literature from the University of Texas in Austin\, a Fulbright Scholarship\, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship. For many years she was also a kathak dancer with the Parul Shah Dance Company.  She teaches at a public school in Brooklyn\, and lives with her family on Roosevelt Island.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-carryout-by-hasan-dudar/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Forgotten Home Front with Sean Kim
DESCRIPTION:As the Korean war (1950–1953) drew to a close and South Korea began to rebuild\, American GI Roger Marshutz (1929–2007) was stationed in Pusan to photograph U.S. reconstruction efforts. In his spare time\, Marshutz also wandered the streets\, documenting the daily life of Korean civilians. The Forgotten Home Front: Roger Marshutz’s Photographs of Pusan\, South Korea\, 1952–1954 offers both an official and unofficial look at U.S.-South Korean relations\, as well as a portrait of a country in the midst of enormous political\, economic\, and cultural transformation. \nThis program will be recorded then released on November 2. \nBased on the new book\, historian Sean Kim will discuss the crucial role of Pusan during the war and the pivotal moment in modern Korean history. \nSean C. Kim is Professor of History at the University of Central Missouri\, where he teaches courses on East Asian\, world\, and US history. Kim received his Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research focuses on modern Korean religious history\, in particular\, the emergence of Protestant Christianity. Kim is currently working on an edited volume on Korean religions.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/the-forgotten-home-front-with-sean-kim/
LOCATION:The Korea Society\, 350 Madison Avenue\, 24th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10017
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Mỹ Documents Book Talk by Kevin Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) and Asian American Diasporic Writers Series present a book talk by Kevin Nguyen about his 2025 novel Mỹ Documents\, followed by a discussion with CSER’s Writer-in-Residence\, Marie Myung-Ok Lee. \nDinner provided. Non-CU affiliates should email cser@columbia.edu to be registered for campus access. \nLocation: CSER Seminar Room (420 Hamilton) \nCo-sponsored by The Asian American Initiative at Columbia University and Asian Diaspora and Asian American Studies at Barnard College.  \n— \nA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME\, THE NEW YORKER\, ESQUIRE \nInformed by real-life events\, from Japanese incarceration to the Vietnam War and modern-day immigrant detention\, Kevin Nguyen’s novel gives us an version of reality only a few degrees away from our own. Moving and finely attuned to both the brutalities and mundanities of racism\, Mỹ Documents is a strangely funny and touching portrait of American ambition\, fear\, and family. 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/my-documents-book-talk-by-kevin-nguyen/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race\, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, New York\, 10027
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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