Dear Santa, Please Come to the 19th Floor by Yin, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet + Illustrator Profile [in KoreAm Journal]
01 Dec, by in Author Interview/Profile, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Repost
Picture the World: Children's book illustrator Chris Soentpiet brings to life his diverse background
NEW YORK CITY — Even after being rejected by more than 10 publishers, Chris Soentpiet (pronounced SOON-peet) kept pounding the pavement....
A collection of 80-plus essays on race, culture, feminism, and activism, which continues the dialogue begun two decades ago in the revolutionary this bridge called my back. Included...
Fabulous, thorough focus on the lives of APA women caught in poverty, isolation, servitude, and violent situations – and still surviving and fighting to make a better life. Based on research done in 2001 by...
While Mishima’s fiction (not to mention his flamboyant life) is internationally renowned, his dramas are virtually unknown in the West, although he published more than 60 plays. This collection includes five of...
The U.S. government’s need for scapegoats takes a chilling twist in Miyake’s effective debut novel, in which Executive Order 9066 is reinstated and the concentration camps are reopened. This time, the country’s...
An absolutely fabulous first novel about young Indian American named Rajiv Kothari, and his path to understanding his recently deceased father, his father’s view of life as an immigrant, and his own...
A touching memoir that traces the life of a young man from a tribal village in Burma. Thwe comes of age amidst political and economic turmoil, from his experiences as...
Read the real and complete Kamasutra here for the first time! The first and only translation of the Kamasutra, published in 1883 and widely attributed to the 19th-century explorer and scholar Sir Richard Francis Burton, is...
Memorable volume of collected plays by one of the most hard-working, prolific, talented, tenacious – not to mention incredibly charming – playwrights of our generation: Red, Scissors, A Beautiful Country, and Wonderland.
Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf"...
“It is easy to understand why Japanese Americans want to know what happened in this war relocation camp,” Cooper writes. “But why is it important for other Americans to remember Manzanar?” Cooper necessarily questions....
This may be the kids’ find of the holiday season. An utterly delightful walk in the rain with the most colorful, inviting umbrellas, set to infectiously happy, twinkling music. My kids couldn’t stop pushing...
Gorgeous book that centers around five traditional Chinese festivals or holidays, with accompanying tales, recipes, and crafts.
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Adorable, fabulous story about four families who travel to China to meet and bring home their four waiting little girls.
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Often hilarious, surprisingly poignant play which looks at the life and works of the all-too-often caricatured Yoko Ono, perhaps the more talented (gasp! dare we say that?) of the Lennon-Ono duo.
Review: <a...
The Asian Pacific American community, post-1965 immigration laws, post-1960s Civil Rights and APA movements, is facing great changes. A questioning, provoking look at communities in transition, communities in transformation, and communities of...
When My Name Was Keoko is the first title for young audiences to deal with the Japanese occupation of Korea during the first half of the 20th century, a torturous part of history about which few...
Lush, gorgeous collection of garden photos. The Asian answer to all those house books on too many coffee tables.
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It’s no surprise that Hollywood has apparently snapped up film rights to this sweeping historical saga, filled with all the exotica you ever tried to avoid – the geisha, the samurai, the...
If you can look beyond the lit crit-ese (“acceptance of assimilation as a natural trajectory” or “to transcend hegemonic and racially prejudiced narratives of integration” blah blah blah), the 20...
Get out of the way, Arthur Golden. Here’s the genuine voice who wants to set the story straight after Golden betrayed her confidence in his tawry, overexoticized rip-off, Memoirs of a Geisha. Oh, do NOT get...