Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List
As we mark Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we bring you a list of books that expand upon and amplify Asian Pacific American stories, histories, and authors. More
The PEN Pod: On Race, Place, and Belonging with Sejal Shah
“I’m certainly thinking about kinship. . . What do we owe our neighbors and fellow humans. . . for whom to be alive is a risk?” More
Across the Asian Americas: An APA Heritage Month Reading List
This reading list, curated by Kaya Press author Rajiv Mohabir, invites us to reexamine “Asian American” as a complicated category. More
The PEN Pod: Looking to the Past to Imagine a Better Future with Helen Zia
“Every Asian American in the United States and people with Asian faces all over the world are experiencing this global pandemic of racism and hatred.” More
Epic Novels, Sweeping Sagas: An APA Heritage Month Reading List
This reading list comes to us from Asian American Writers Workshop Executive Director Jafreen Uddin, and is a continuation of our efforts to amplify Asian American voices in literature. More
Asian American Voices: An Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List
In response to violence directed at individuals of Asian descent, we’ve sought to help amplify contemporary Asian American voices in this reading list. More
The PEN Pod: Letting Go of Our Illusions with Charles Yu
“This moment and what I think will be the aftermath of it for a long time, is to actually make very real what has felt real for a long… More
The PEN Ten with Ming Di
"I don’t think it’s the responsibility of writers to do anything. We do it anyway—out of consciousness, not responsibility." More
PEN Literary Awards to the 2016 election: ‘We need fewer walls and more book awards’
Poet Laureate of Brooklyn Tina Chang has a message for politicians: "We need fewer walls and more book awards." More
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