This Filipino American History Month, we're exploring a largely forgotten chapter of Brooklyn's past. 🇵🇭 💙 Filipino seamen and their families once built a vibrant waterfront community in the working-class […]
ABOUT THE BOOK 75 recipes tell the story of Taiwanese cuisine, with essays, itineraries, and stunning photography that explore Taiwan’s vibrant food culture. An exhilarating exploration of Taiwanese food in all its complexity and deliciousness, with over 70 recipes. Eric Sze, a chef and restaurateur in New York City, explores what makes Taiwanese […]
NYC chef Rachel Gurjar shares a joyful celebration of the immigrant experience through the universal language of food in her new cookbook! Rachel Gurjar presents East to East: Recipes and […]
An inspirational memoir that shows readers they have nothing to lose and much to gain by moving to the front of the classroom of life! Join us for an unforgettable afternoon with Sarina Jain as she celebrates the launch of her debut book, All You Need Is Balle Balle: How Movement Became My Superpower. Known […]
Join QPL Community Health for a discussion with NYU Professor Krishnendu Ray and NYC-based cook, journalist, and recipe developer Anikah Shaokat. Together, they’ll explore how food preserves culture, connects generations, […]
ABOUT THE BOOK From the award-winning author of Bestiary, three cousins are forced to complete an impossible and violent task set by a vengeful demon. Cousins Cindy, Yangyang, and Mandy’s hot, tedious summer unfolds in their grandmother’s hauntingly familiar house. Mandy, the eldest, seeks connection online and exchanges emails with a stranger. Yangyang, the youngest, retreats […]
Join us for Mapping Queens: Building Artist-Run Spaces, a conversation highlighting artist-led spaces across Queens and the people creating them. Presented through the Queens Cultural Mapping Initiative, this panel will bring together artists and organizers behind artist-run spaces from across the borough to share how their spaces came to life, the communities they serve, and […]
We invite you to an evening of books and humanitarian fundraising on October 21st. Throughout our publication season, we noticed our titles in conversation with another: A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing and Honey in the Wound both share themes of anti-imperialism and magical realism as a means to explore intergenerational trauma and the legacy of […]
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2026, Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), hosts our annual collaboration with one of the premier anthologies of contemporary American fiction. Come along on this spectacular journey of literature in performance and celebrate the achievements of established and emerging writers. With stories by Nathan […]
Na Zhong presents Three In conversation with Rachel Heng Wine reception to follow Na Zhong, writer, translator, and co-founder of Accent Accent, presents her debut novella Three, an expansive yet personal story of a prideful teacher, her husband, their quietly rebellious daughter, and a town changed by the breakneck pressures of modernization. "A story of recent China but also […]
Join us for a special evening as we celebrate Asian Feminism in Horror! We're celebrating K-Ming Chang's new novel, NEEDLEMOUTH, with a special panel at The Twisted Spine! Join K-Ming Chang, Catherine Dang (WHAT HUNGER), Cassandra Khaw (FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS), and Jade Song (CHLORINE) as they discuss modern Asian Feminist perspectives in Horror. […]
Michelle Phương Hồ’s Bone Symphony mines the wreckage of colonialism and imperialist warfare in Vietnam and attempts to reassemble the bones. Told in three movements spanning lyric, documentary, and hybrid forms, Bone Symphony uncovers a world turned upside-down by war: evil is good, saviors are toddlers, children die before their mothers, and civil servants—like the poet’s grandfather—become enemies […]