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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Where are You Really From by Elaine Hsieh Chou
DESCRIPTION:For this Book Club discussion with the author\, we’ll be discussing Background: A Short Story. Read it first here! \n\nFrom the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation\, a multi-genre story collection that \n\nexplores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. \nA mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California\, where her much older husband awaits her. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself\, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. And in “Casualties of Art\,” a writer’s affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction\, self-victimization and the victimization of others. \nIn these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal\, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling. With razor-sharp precision and psychological acuity\, she peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our treacherous desires\, our self-deceptions and our capacity for cruelty\, both to ourselves and each other. Expansive and provocative\, Where Are You Really From is a visionary achievement. \n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n\n\nElaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Described as “the funniest\, most poignant novel of the year” by Vogue\, her debut novel Disorientation was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book\, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and Thurber Prize finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University\, her Pushcart Award–winning short fiction appears in Guernica\, Black Warrior Review\, Tin House Online\, Ploughshares and The Atlantic\, while her essays appear in The Cut and Vanity Fair. She is a Fred R. Brown Literary Award recipient\, a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow and a Gotham Series Creator to Watch. Her work has been supported by the Harry Ransom Center\, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Hedgebrook’s Writers-in-Residence Program.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-where-are-you-really-from-by-elaine-hsieh-chou/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The L.O.V.E Club by Lio Min
DESCRIPTION: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\n \nThree 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 Vera (“L” and “V”) moved away\, leaving O alone with her grief\, abandonment\, and confusion. . . until Liberty and Vera return for their senior year of high school. \nThough the L.O.V.E. Club’s three remaining members once bonded as outcasts and gamers\, they can’t pick up the pieces of their friendship. But the girls are drawn back to their old clubhouse\, where they discover\, loaded for them to play\, a new game created by none other than the missing Elle. \nOne click\, and Liberty\, Vera\, and O are ported into Morning Glory\, an ever-evolving botanical fantasy coded with their lived experiences\, complicated history\, and repressed insecurities. Unbeknownst to the others\, O can’t remember the events surrounding Elle’s disappearance—but within the game\, Elle has sent O a cryptic hint about Morning Glory’s real nature. \nWhile Liberty and Vera defeat increasingly sinister bosses\, O grapples with the secret knowledge that her deepest wish\, to reunite with Elle\, might just come true. But as the girls progress through Morning Glory\, O begins to wonder how well she actually knew any of her former best friends and if she’s ready to confront the hard truths—and dangerous revelations—about Elle in her returning memories. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nLio Min is the acclaimed author of Beating Heart Baby\, a long-time music reporter\, and a fullmetal optimist. They live in Oakland\, California\, and write toward the future. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nKazimir Lee has lived for almost equal amounts of time in Malaysia\, the UK\, and the US. They have been published by the Slate\, the Nib\, OJST and NY Mag. Their work has won a Lambda and an Ignatz. Their first solo YA graphic novel\, Low Orbit\, is now available from Top Shelf. They now reside in Brooklyn with all the other freaks. Kazimir enjoys queer subtext\, parenthood\, ghost stories\, and karaoke.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/13687/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Friendship as Creative Act with Stephanie Niu and Juliana Chang
DESCRIPTION: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 Open and I Would Define the Sun\, and discuss the ways friendship has shaped these works\, whether editorially or emotionally\, in order to ask: how can we make space for friendship in the creative process? What do we gain when creativity and community flourish together? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nStephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta\, Georgia. She is the author of I Would Define the Sun\, which won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize\, and chapbooks Survived By (Host Publications\, 2024) and She Has Dreamt Again of Water (Diode Editions\, 2022). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review\, The Missouri Review\, Literary Hub\, Copper Nickel\, Ecotone\, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJuliana Chang is a Taiwanese American poet. Her first full-length collection\, So Long This Wound Stayed Open\, was published with ELJ Editions in 2024. Juliana’s work appears in The American Poetry Review\, The Chestnut Review\, diode poetry journal\, Burningword Literary Magazine\, Best New Poets 2023\, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Linguistics and an MA in Sociology from Stanford University\, and a JD from Harvard Law School.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-friendship-as-creative-act-with-stephanie-niu-and-juliana-chang/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yu & Me Books: A Benefit Reading for Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Join Workshops for Gaza for our first IN-PERSON reading at Yu and Me Books in New York City featuring writers Megan Fernandes\, Jenny Xie and Kyle Lucia Wu! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project’s Refaat Alareer Camp\, which provides medical and educational support to children and adults in Gaza. \nMegan Fernandes is the author of I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House\, 2023). Her work has been published in The New Yorker\, POETRY\, The Kenyon Review\, The American Poetry Review\, and Ploughshares\, among others. She is an Associate Professor and Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College. \nJenny Xie is the author of Holding Pattern\, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her short fiction has appeared in journals like Sewanee Review\, AGNI\, Ninth Letter\, and Joyland\, and she’s received support from organizations like MacDowell\, Yaddo\, and Bread Loaf. \nKyle Lucia Wu is the author of Win Me Something (Tin House Books\, 2021). She is also the co-author with Cathy Linh Che of An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to our History (Haymarket Books\, 2023). Kyle is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and a lecturer at the New School.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/yu-me-books-a-benefit-reading-for-gaza/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
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SUMMARY:Midnight Release Party: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
DESCRIPTION: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! \nABOUT THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS \nFrom the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story\, a quest\, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them\, and a parable for our peculiar times. \nWe begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl\, teenagers in love. One day\, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. \nThus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world – a mysterious\, perhaps imaginary\, walled town where unicorns roam\, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind\, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions\, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town\, where he becomes the head librarian\, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds\, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he’s been missing all along. \nThe City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/midnight-release-party-the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
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