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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Arab American Poetry | Readings by Maha Hashwi\, Ghinwa Jawhari\, Lawrence Joseph\, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:​Join SNFL and the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) for a celebration of Arab American Heritage Month and National Poetry Month\, with readings by Maha Hashwi\, Ghinwa Jawhari\, Lawrence Joseph\, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. \nThis event will take place in person and online at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. \nTo honor the rich poetic tradition of Arab American literature\, poets Maha Hashwi\, Ghinwa Jawhari\, Lawrence Joseph\, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef will read from and discuss their work. This event is hosted in partnership with RAWI\, founded in 1993 as the Radius of Arab American Writers. \nTo join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events\, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance\, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time\, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program. \nTo view the livestream | Whether you’re attending in person or online\, you must register with your email address. You will need a device with audio and/or video and an internet/cellular connection to view the livestream. \nABOUT THE POETS \nMaha Hashwi is a storyteller and spoken word poet. She is unapologetic in her identities as a Muslim and Arab woman. Her debut poetry collection\, The Pomegranate Is a Grenade\, will be published September 2026. She hosts a writing workshop in NYC called Anyone Can Write encouraging all to put pen to paper. Maha has attended Aspen Institute’s Summer Words Writers Conference in Poetry and Tin House’s Winter Workshop. She grew up in Dearborn\, Michigan and now lives in New York City. \nGhinwa Jawhari is a Lebanese American writer from Cleveland\, based in Brooklyn. She is a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction\, poetry\, and essays appear in Prairie Schooner\, The Adroit Journal\, Al Rawiya\, Rusted Radishes\, and elsewhere. Her chapbook BINT (2021) was selected by Aria Aber for Radix Media’s Own Voices Chapbook Prize. \nBorn in Detroit\, Lawrence Joseph is the grandson of Lebanese and Syrian immigrants\, who were among the first Arab Americans in Detroit in the early years of the twentieth century. He is the author of many books of poems\, most recently A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2020)\, and two books of prose\, Lawyerland\, a nonfiction novel (FSG\, 1997)\, and The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose (University of Michigan Press\, 2011). His new book of poems\, Precisely Now\, will be published by FSG in September 2026. Among his awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and New York State Council on the Arts. He is a retired Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law and lives in New York City. \nKamelya Omayma Youssef is the author of A book with a hole in it\, which won the Arab American Book Award for Poetry in 2023 and Wendy’s Subway’s Carolyn Bush Award in 2020. She is a text and performance worker who works\, teaches\, edits\, and organizes events in Detroit\, NY\, etc. Her work has appeared in Apogee\, Mizna\, Sukoon\, AAWW’s The Margins\, Poem-a-Day\, and elsewhere. Currently\, she is an Artist-at-Work in partnership with The Office Arts\, and she is curating events and the microresidency at City of Asylum-Detroit. Her second book is forthcoming soon with 1080press. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/a-celebration-of-arab-american-poetry-readings-by-maha-hashwi-ghinwa-jawhari-lawrence-joseph-and-kamelya-omayma-youssef-hybrid/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Get Lit March Book Club: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Join WNYC’s Alison Stewart and writer Megha Majumdar for a live conversation about her newest book\, A Guardian and a Thief\, a finalist for the National Book Award. \nThe New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community. \nThe March title is Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief – an electrifying new novel in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other in a city ravaged by climate change and food scarcity. \nIn a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine\, Ma\, her two-year-old daughter\, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate\, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse\, containing their treasured immigration documents\, has been stolen. \nSet over the course of one week\, A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma’s frantic search for the thief while keeping hunger at bay during a worsening food shortage; and the story of Boomba\, the thief\, whose desperation to care for his family drives him to commit a series of escalating crimes whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command\, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families\, each operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope\, each discovering how far they will go to secure their children’s future as they stave off encroaching catastrophe. \nA masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/get-lit-march-book-club-a-guardian-and-a-thief-by-megha-majumdar-hybrid/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:7 Stories Up | Book Buzz: Halloween Edition- Horror and Mystery
DESCRIPTION:Join us at SNFL to hear the “buzz” directly from authors and publishing industry professionals about new and upcoming titles in Mystery and Horror. Free and advance copies available while supplies last! \nThe 7 Stories Up Book Buzz will be a delightful evening filled with literature\, engaging discussions\, and opportunities to meet authors and fellow passionate book lovers. Here’s what to expect: \n\nAttend panels featuring Mystery and Horror writers\nLearn about new and upcoming titles from Penguin Random House staff\nBrowse free and advanced reader copies of titles\nGiveaways while supplies last\n\nTo join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events\, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance\, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time\, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program. \nFEATURED SPEAKERS | Mystery \nVictor Suthammanont is a lawyer and author. Hollow Spaces is his debut novel. He lives in New York City. \nLyn Liao Butler is a Taiwanese American author. Her thriller Someone Else’s Life was an instant Amazon bestseller and her second book Red Thread of Fate was a finalist in the WFWA Star Awards for 2023. She and her family\, including two rescue dogs and a myriad of foster animals\, divide their time between New York and Kauai. \nFEATURED SPEAKERS | Horror \nDelilah S. Dawson is the New York Times-bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma\, plus House of Idyll\, Bloom\, Guillotine\, The Violence\, It Will Only Hurt for a Moment\, Ride or Die\, Camp Scare\, Mine\, Thor and Loki: Epic Tales of Marvel Mythology\, Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd\, Star Wars Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade\, and dozens of novels and comics for all ages. Learn more at www.delilahsdawson.com. \nCharlotte Carter is the acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mystery series. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of American and British anthologies. Charlotte Carter has lived in the American Midwest\, North Africa\, and France. She currently resides in New York City.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/7-stories-up-book-buzz-halloween-edition-horror-and-mystery/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T193000
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SUMMARY:Understanding AI with Data & Society | The Environmental Costs of AI Are Surging—What Now? (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Researcher Tamara Kneese speaks with environmental justice researcher Sanjana Paul and critical social scientist Jasmine McNealy about the environmental toll AI development is taking on local water supplies\, energy systems\, and communities around the world. \nThis event will take place online and in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor \nArtificial intelligence technologies run on powerful computers that require vast amounts of energy\, water\, and critical minerals. As AI use grows\, so does its environmental footprint. Yet there is little consensus on how to assess and address the technology’s toll on the climate before irreparable damage is done. How can we understand the impact AI data centers have on communities and the environment? How can we ensure that communities are able to use empirical data about those impacts to fight back? \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nTamara Kneese is the director of Data & Society’s Climate\, Technology\, and Justice program. Previously\, she led Data & Society’s Algorithmic Impacts Lab (AIMLab). Tamara’s research juxtaposes histories of computing and automation with ethnographies of platform labor. Her first book\, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond\, was published by Yale University Press in 2023. \nJasmine McNealy is an attorney\, critical public interest technologist\, and social scientist who studies emerging media & technology with a view toward influencing law and policy. An internationally recognized scholar\, her research is interdisciplinary\, centered at the intersection of media\, technology\, policy\, and law. Of particular focus are the areas of privacy\, surveillance\, and data governance and emphasizing technological and the impacts on marginalized and vulnerable communities. She is a professor at the University of Florida where she directs the Infrastructure for Communities\, Ecology for Data Hub (ICED Hub)\, which annually hosts the Rural x AI + Policy Workshop. She is also Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. \nSanjana Paul is an engineer\, environmental justice researcher\, and systems thinker working at the intersection of infrastructure\, climate\, and technology. She is a PhD student at MIT\, where her research focuses on renewable energy\, energy justice\, and the electric grid. She is the co-founder of Rooted Futures Lab\, a research and action collective advancing environmental justice in technology\, and Earth Hacks\, a nonprofit harnessing hackathons as a form of climate action. Her work has ranged from atmospheric science software engineering at NASA to passing decarbonization policy at the local level. She holds a BS in electrical engineering and physics\, and a Master’s in City Planning from MIT.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/understanding-ai-with-data-society-the-environmental-costs-of-ai-are-surging-what-now-hybrid/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,In Person,Panel,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T183000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Drawn + Quarterly Graphic Novelists Featuring Tom Gauld\, Lee Lai\, and Mimi Pond
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with graphic novel publishers Drawn + Quarterly featuring Tom Gauld\, Lee Lai\, and Mimi Pond.   Discover the most anticipated graphic novels to come out this Fall from publisher Drawn + Quarterly. \nPhysics for Cats by Tom Gauld \nTom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats\, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth their sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to their electron microscope. This new batch of hilarious gags will be as important to every self-respecting scientist as a lab coat and goggles and oversize rubber gloves.  Find out what the hadron’s news alert about CERN says! Everyone asks\, “What is dark matter?” and “Where is dark matter?” but do they ever take the time to ask\, “How is dark matter?” Based all on previous data\, we can predict with a 99.99% certainty that you will either laugh\, guffaw\, chortle or snort (we don’t have a large enough sample set to be able to say which particular type of mirth you will experience.) \nCanon by Lee Lai \nA LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife    We arrive to wreckage—a restaurant smashed to rubble\, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave\, this is where we meet our protagonist\, Cannon\, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night\, but instead\, well\, she destroyed it. The mess feels a bit like a horror-scape—not unlike the horror films Cannon and her best friend\, Trish\, watch together. Cooking dinner and digging into deep cuts of Australian horror films on their scheduled weekly hangs has become the glue in their rote relationship. In high school\, they were each other’s lifeline—two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now\, on the uncool side of their twenties\, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down.   Yet\, when our stoic and unbendingly well-behaved Cannon finds herself—very uncharacteristically—surrounded by smashed plates\, it is Trish who shows up to pull her the hell outta there.   In Cannon\, Lee Lai’s much anticipated follow-up to the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit\, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a slice of what Lai has on offer. As Cannon’s shoulders bend under the weight of an aging Gung-gung and an avoidant mother\, Lai’s sharp sense of humor and sensitive eye produce a story that will hit readers with a smash. \nDo Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond \nMimi Pond crafts a gorgeous\, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters.  Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match\, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies\, intrigue\, or scandal. Nancy\, Pamela\, Diana\, Unity\, Jessica\, and Deborah. All six sisters were weaned on their family’s well-documented upper class eccentricities: a ne’er do well would-be entrepreneur father; a stern\, stiff-upper-lipped mother; a revolving door of governesses of varying propriety\, all against the backdrop of a crumbling estate falling into disrepair.  The sisters grew from cloistered turn-of-the-century country girls into debutantes who would marry into political influence—for better or worse. Is it any wonder that a young\, working class Mimi in Southern California becomes enamored with The Mitfords’ downright fanciful rich-and-famous lifestyle? This charming\, inventively cartooned\, and lovingly researched biography captures the dramatic\, over-the-top antics of high society’s strongest personalities as they rubbed elbows with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists. Pond’s genius for classic cartooning in the vein of the Vanity Fair caricature and the satirical illustrations of Charles Addams brings the aesthetic decadence of the 1920s and ‘30s to life with effortless aplomb\, warts and all. \nTo join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events\, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance\, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time\, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program. \nAbout the Speakers \nTom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire\, Scotland. He is a cartoonist and illustrator and his work is regularly published in the The Guardian\, The New Yorker and New Scientist. He has created a number of comic books. He lives in London with his family. \nLee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (colonially known as Montreal\, Canada). In 2021\, she was selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for her debut graphic novel\, Stone Fruit\, which went on to win several awards\, including the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel\, the Cartoonist Studio Prize\, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize\, and two Ignatz Awards. Her comics have appeared on the New Yorker\, McSweeney’s\, The New York Times\, Granta Magazine\, and the Museum of Modern Art Magazine. \nMimi Pond has been writing and creating comics for a very long time for all mediums\, both antique and futuristic. Very long ago\, she wrote the first episode of The Simpsons\, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.” She is the author of a number of books. In 2014 and 2017\, Drawn & Quarterly published her fictionalized memoirs about her life as a waitress in late-1970s Oakland\, California: Over Easy; and its sequel\, The Customer is Always Wrong. 2025 will bring about the graphic biography Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me. She is the recipient of an Eisner Award\, Inkpot Award\, and the PEN Center USA award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work. Pond lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, the artist Wayne White.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/an-evening-with-drawn-quarterly-graphic-novelists-featuring-tom-gauld-lee-lai-and-mimi-pond/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Vicky Nguyen with Tracey Nguyen Mang: Boat Baby—A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:​NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen joins us for a conversation about Boat Baby\, her new memoir that tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter\, with Tracey Nguyen Mang of podcast and non-profit Vietnamese Boat People. \nStarting in 1975\, Vietnam’s “boat people”—desperate families seeking freedom—fled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could\, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them. Attacked at sea by pirates before reaching a refugee camp in Malaysia\, Vicky’s family survived on rations and waited months until they were sponsored to go to America. \nBut deciding to leave and start a new life in a new country is half the story…figuring out how to be American is the other. Boat Baby is Vicky’s memoir of growing up in America with unconventional Vietnamese parents who didn’t always know how to bridge the cultural gaps. It’s a childhood filled with misadventures and misunderstandings\, from almost stabbing the neighborhood racist with a butter knife to getting caught stealing Cosmo in the hope of learning Do You Really Think You Know Everything About Sex? \nVicky’s parents approached life with the attitude\, “Why not us?” In the face of prejudice\, they taught her to be gritty and resilient\, skills Vicky used as she combatted stereotyping throughout her career\, fending off the question “Aren’t you Connie Chung?” to become a leading Asian American journalist on television. She delivers a uniquely transparent account of her life\, revealing how she negotiated her salary in a competitive industry\, the challenges of starting a family\, and the struggle to be a dutiful daughter. \nFunny\, nostalgic\, and poignant\, Boat Baby is a testament to the messy glue that bonds a family. In the tradition of We Are Dreamers by Simu Liu and Dear Girls by Ali Wong\, Vicky Nguyen offers an optimistic story full of heart that illuminates the promise of what America can be. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nVicky Nguyen is an NBC News senior consumer investigative correspondent and anchor of NBC News Daily. She reports for The Today Show\, Nightly News with Lester Holt and NBC News Now. She graduated as valedictorian from the University of San Francisco. Vicky lives in New York with her husband and three daughters. Her parents are always nearby. \nTracey Nguyen Mang is the founder of Vietnamese Boat People (vietnameseboatpeople.org)\, a podcast and nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of the Vietnamese diaspora through innovative storytelling programs. She was born in Vietnam and came to the U.S. in 1981 as a refugee with her family. Tracey has over twenty-five years of strategy and corporate social responsibility experience and is currently in real estate with West of Hudson Real Estate.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/author-talk-vicky-nguyen-with-tracey-nguyen-mang-boat-baby-a-memoir/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:The New Rap Language: How Musicians Continue to Transform the Spoken Word
DESCRIPTION:Groundbreaking musicians Audry Funk\, Bartika Eam Rai\, and Felukah sit down with renowned journalist Jessica Lipksy to discuss using their native and adopted languages to shape their unique styles\, and how their artistry speaks to issues important to them. \nThe discussion will be followed by short performances from each artist demonstrating their special techniques. \nJessica Lipsky is an award-winning journalist and managing editor at the Recording Academy. When she’s not collecting records to DJ\, she writes about them for the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, NPR\, the Washington Post\, Columbia Journalism Review\, Wax Poetics and elsewhere. Her book\, It Ain’t Retro\, a biography of Daptone Records and the revival soul scene\, was largely researched and written at New York’s library systems. \n  \nKnown as Audry Funk\, Audry Bustos Díaz is a singer – songwriter\, MC\, and activist born in Puebla\, Mexico who is considered as one of the most important exponents of Hip-Hop in Spanish. Residing in the Bronx\, New York\, she has an international presence in the independent music industry for twenty years. During this time\, her powerful message has reached different high-profile venues\, while also giving talks about philosophy\, feminism and migration at forums around the world. \n  \nBartika Eam Rai is a New York based singer-songwriter\, celebrated for her poetry-like lyrics\, haunting vocal and authenticity. Rai was born and raised in Kathmandu\, but it was only after moving to the US that she decided to experiment her prose as music\, in an attempt to express the displacement that consumed her\, intensified by the tangible realization of leaving home. She recognizes her medium being intertwined with her longing for home and perennial identity crisis of existing as a Nepali in a non-Nepali world\, which is why all her recorded music is intentionally created in Nepali\, her mother-tongue. Her albums have received rave reviews and she has been the recipient of Nepal’s national music awards. Bartika is currently working on her first book\, tiny excerpts of which\, was written inside the New York Public Library! \n  \nFelukah is an Egyptian rapper\, singer\, poet and activist. Seamlessly blending her Arabic culture into Western sounds\, Felukah is dubbed the ‘Arabfuturist songstress\,’ or the artist paving the way for a ‘new wave of Arab women.’ Felukah’s music and revolutionary character has garnered the attention of thousands in the Middle East as well as the Western world\, landing her opportunities with the FIFA World Cup\, Harvard University\, the Brooklyn Museum\, Boiler Room TV\, and more. Felukah’s new collaboration with Ash\, “On My Mind” showcases her versatility as a pop artist\, rapping and singing over a dance beat and staying true to her conscious lyrics about empowerment\, life and romance.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/the-new-rap-language-how-musicians-continue-to-transform-the-spoken-word/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,In Person,Panel,Performance,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Amanda Lee Koe with Zoë Chao: Sister Snake
DESCRIPTION:Writer Amanda Lee Koe joins us to discuss her new book\, Sister Snake\, with Actress Zoë Chao. \nA glittering\, bold\, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York\, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret \nSisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered\, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York\, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends meet. But they share a secret: once\, they were snakes\, basking under a full moon in Tang dynasty China. \nA thousand years later\, their mysterious history is the only thing still binding them together. When Emerald experiences a violent encounter in Central Park and Su boards the next flight to New York\, the two reach a tenuous reconciliation for the first time in decades. Su convinces Emerald to move to Singapore so she can keep an eye on her—but she soon begins to worry that Emerald’s irrepressible behavior will out them both\, in a sparkling\, affluent city where everything runs like clockwork and any deviation from the norm is automatically suspect. \nRazor-sharp\, hilarious\, and raw in emotion\, Sister Snake explores chosen family\, queerness\, passing\, and the struggle against conformity. Reimagining the Chinese folktale “The Legend of the White Snake\,” this is a novel about being seen for who you are—and\, ultimately\, how to live free. \nAt this event\, Amanda Lee Koe will discuss her new book with Zoë Chao \nTo join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events\, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance\, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time\, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nAmanda Lee Koe was born and raised in Singapore and has lived in New York\, Beijing\, Berlin and Bangkok. Her debut novel\, Delayed Rays of a Star (Doubleday\, 2019) was named a Most Anticipated Title by ELLE\, Los Angeles Times\, Thrillist\, and USA Today\, and one of NPR’s Best Books of The Year. Amanda has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, PEN America\, the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program\, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program\, the National Arts Council of Singapore\, and the Fóndation Jan Michalski. She was previously fiction editor of Esquire Singapore. \nZoë Chao can most recently be seen in Peacock’s sci-fi rom-com IF YOU WERE THE LAST opposite Anthony Mackie and in the Netflix romantic comedy\, YOUR PLACE OR MINE\, opposite Reese Witherspoon. In December\, Zoë can be seen in Marielle Heller’s NIGHTBITCH opposite Amy Adams and soon also\, in James Gunn’s animated series CREATURES COMMANDOS. Chao is also in the newest season of STARZ’s cult favorite PARTY DOWN. And in Apple’s two seasons of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s murder mystery comedy\, THE AFTERPARTY. Chao was awarded the “Actress Award for Television” at the Inaugural Critics Choice Association Celebration of Asian Pacific Cinema & Television for her work on the show. Zoë was also named one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch in 2024.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/author-talk-amanda-lee-koe-with-zoe-chao-sister-snake/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture by Eric Nakamura with Claudine Ko\, Ed Lin\, and Travis Louie
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture with a lively discussion between Giant Robot’s co-founder Eric Nakamura and journalist Claudine Ko\, writer Ed Lin\, and artist\, illustrator and author Travis Louie. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/https-www-nypl-org-events-programs-2024-10-23-giant-robot-thirty-years-defining-asian-american-pop-culture-eric/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person,Panel
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