Join us to celebrate the midnight release of Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls! Featuring games, prizes, tea from Kettl Tea, sake from Kato Sake works, Milk Bar muffins (“Murakuffins”) inspired by the book, and more! Be the first to receive your copy right at midnight!ABOUT THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLSFrom the […]
Join us to celebrate the Penguin Classics launch of DOGEATERS with a conversation featuring Jessica Hagedorn, Patrick Rosal & Lucy Yu!ABOUT DOGEATERS“An original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The SympathizerWelcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ […]
In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love. Starting in 1975, Vietnam’s “boat people”—desperate families seeking freedom—fled the Communist government and violence in their country […]
Can friendship be a creative act? In this book talk, debut poets (and college roommates!) Juliana Chang and Stephanie Niu will discuss their publication journeys and explore the myriad of ways their writing has been intertwined with and influenced by friendship. Juliana and Stephanie will read from their debut collections, So Long This Wound Stayed […]
This event will take place in person at Chatham Square Library. Please join author Katie Yee as we discuss her debut novel Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar: A Novel. Booksigning to follow Q&A. Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers’ […]
From the acclaimed author of Beating Heart Baby, an immersive novel following three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend Three years ago, Elle (the “E” in the self-proclaimed L.O.V.E. Club) disappeared from Calendula, an affluent Chinese American suburb in inland California. Soon afterward, Liberty and […]
For this Book Club discussion with the author, we'll be discussing Background: A Short Story. Read it first here! From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her […]
A cultural biography, both sweeping and intimate, of the legend Bruce Lee, set against the extraordinary, untold story of the rise of Asian America—from the author of the award-winning classic Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and one of the finest culture observers of our era. Jeff Chang’s first book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, […]
Based on the powerful self-help guide, The Pain We Carry, this workbook will help you heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit. Written by an author of color and based on her pivotal book, The Pain We Carry, this groundbreaking workbook provides a practical, step-by-step, and culturally informed approach to […]
Join us for an Art Analysis Writing Workshop where we'll be analyzing short stories, poetry, and visual art. In this encouraging space, we are cultivating an inviting environment for you to hone in on your own unique voice. ABOUT THE HOSTS Lucy Yu is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, New York. She is […]
ABOUT THE BOOK The electric story of two sisters and an unthinkable betrayal. Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York, a dream job that has given her nearly everything she's always wanted. And then she reconnects with Jack from college—kind, funny, intelligent Jack—and suddenly Mira feels as if […]
In this funny, warmly chaotic novel, a floundering office worker discovers her mother's ghost is trapped in the company Slack server, and must free her by resolving her own troubled love life. A few months ago, Ruby Ocampo’s mother, Adela, died at her desk at work. Now, lost and driven by a misplaced sense of obligation, Ruby’s […]