Tag: books

  • A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che

    A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che

    Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips…

  • Grief as Plot: A Review of Kelly Murashige’s The Yomigaeri Tunnel

    Grief as Plot: A Review of Kelly Murashige’s The Yomigaeri Tunnel

    Review by Gabriella Contratto One of the first lessons a creative writer learns is the shape of a good plot, the flat line of exposition, the rising action that culminates in the pointy climax where the plot turns, and the downhill line of the falling action ending in a neat resolution. In Fiction Writing 101,…

  • Finding ʻOhana and Home: A Review of kristiana Kahakauwila’s Clairboyance

    Finding ʻOhana and Home: A Review of kristiana Kahakauwila’s Clairboyance

    by Andrew Hoe A friend from Big Island recently told me how Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles were foundational to him as a child, and I, also being a fan of Riordan, brought up the Rick Riordan Presents books. My friend lamented that, while there were so many cultures represented in that wonderful series, there were…

  • We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon

    We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon

    Emily Jungmin Yoon is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco | HarperCollins 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book was released in Korean as 우리 종족의…