Category: Asian American Lit

After her story,“Stargazing,” I read all of ND Chan’s poetry to the tune of Oasis’ “Wonderwall.” “Stargazing” is my favorite… read more Poems to sing to Wonderwall

WARNING SPOILERS FOR BOTH MIRROR IN THE SKY AND KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NEVER LET ME GO 1928 International Telephone and Telegraph… read more Mirror Reflections

When Curtis Chin (founder of the Asian American Writer’s Workshop) asked me to submit something to an anthology he was… read more Sentimental About Local/Express

Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan My rating: 5 of 5 stars In terms of format, Tales from Outer… read more On Goodreads: Outer Suburbia

In Sugar Weather, Lisa Simmons sows the imagination with the seeds of a great gothic romance (in the English Lit… read more Lisa Simmon’s Sugar Weather

Bowling for Soup make suffering painful teen (tween) cliques fun. Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time is the fourth Lisa Yee book… read more Rancho Rosetta Days

Sodagreen’s “Little Universe” (the video above) plays in the background at the sushi restaurant where Ray meets some people who… read more Paul Yee’s Money Boy

A version of this list appears on k2twelve.com and ricedaddies.com.   Mia Wenjen’s Jade Luck Club has the most extensive and… read more An Asian American Summer Reading List

According to Wikipedia, in Wicca, standing inside a chalk circle can protect you from evil. It can even empower you…. read more Tara Masih’s The Chalk Circle

Reading Thad Rutkowski is like reading the lab journal written by the rat running the maze. His observations are just… read more Thad Rutkowski’s Haywire

What’s great about Lisa Yee’s book, Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally), is not that includes a Stay At Home Dad (SAHD),… read more Bobby’s Girl

  Tara’s Dog Star stories make me think of Morrissey crooning: I am human and I need to belong just… read more Where the Dog Star Never Glows