Author Interview: Kate Beaton [in Shelf Awareness]
02 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
Kate Beaton: 'I Stopped Drawing ...
BookDragon Author Interview/Profile
The Carnegie Medal Interview: Hanif Abdurraqib [in Booklist]
23 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
Terry Hong, Booklist Contributing Reviewer and chair of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence selection committee, had questions for Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance, winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Here is their exchange: A Little Devil...
The Carnegie Medal Interview: Tom Lin [in Booklist]
22 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost
Terry Hong, Booklist Contributing Reviewer and chair of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence selection committee, had questions for Tom Lin, winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for his first novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu. Here is their conversation: So as a debut novelist in your...
Author Interview: Monica Ali [in Shelf Awareness]
05 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, British, British Asian, Fiction, Repost
Monica Ali: 'I need to write. No Matter What' Monica Ali’s debut novel, Brick Lane, earned a Man Booker shortlist nod and recognition for Ali as one of Granta's 2003 "Best Young British Novelists." Born to a Bangladeshi father and British mother, Ali was raised in England,...
Author and Illustrator Interview: Eva Chen and Sophie Diao [in Shelf Awareness]
03 Nov, by in Author Interview/Profile, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost
Eva Chen and Sophie Diao: A Collaboration of Joy and Empowerment Eva Chen and Sophie Diao have yet to meet in real life, but they already share important commonalities: both are American daughters of Chinese immigrants, both have multiple book credits, and both are multi-tasking multi-talents. Chen is a...
Author Interview: Maxine Beneba Clarke [in Shelf Awareness]
27 Jul, by in Australian, Author Interview/Profile, Children/Picture Books, Repost
Maxine Beneba Clarke: Uplifting Black Lives Matter Around the World Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Afro-Caribbean Australian author/artist who creates across genres and audiences: adult fiction, nonfiction, memoir and children's books. Her award-winning titles are steadily migrating to the United States, including her second picture book...
Author Interview: BonHyung Jeong [in Shelf Awareness]
03 Jun, by in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Korean, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
BonHyung Jeong: Different Countries, Different Cultures, All Human Beings BonHyung Jeong makes her graphic novel debut with Kyle's Little Sister, from JY/Yen Press (June 22, 2021). Jeong's energetic title is a delightful middle-grade story that highlights the universal challenges of growing up, navigating friendships and overcoming a bit...
Author Interview: Silvia Moreno-Garcia [in Shelf Awareness]
20 May, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, Fiction, Latin American, Mexican, Repost
Silvia Moreno-Garcia: On Publishing, Racism, and a "Real Horror Story" Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a literary chameleon, successfully writing across genres, including speculative short fiction (This Strange Way of Dying), historical fantasy (The Beautiful Ones), magical realism (Gods of Jade and Snow) and horror (Mexican Gothic). She's also edited several anthologies, is the publisher of micro-indie...
Author Interview: Kaitlyn Greenidge [in Shelf Awareness]
30 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost
"I Write for Black Women" Kaitlyn Greenidge's debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, won the 2017 Whiting Award and was among the New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts...
Author Interview: Emiko Jean [in Shelf Awareness]
07 Jan, by in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Emiko Jean: Searching for Belonging When Emiko Jean isn't writing, she's reading. Before she became a writer, she was an entomologist, a candlemaker, a florist, and most recently, a teacher. She is the author of Empress of All Seasons and We'll Never Be Apart. In her third novel, Tokyo Ever After (Flatiron...
Author Interview: Kelli Jo Ford [in Shelf Awareness]
21 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Dreaming the Impossible Even before Kelli Jo Ford's debut, Crooked Hallelujah was released, it garnered accolades: the seventh chapter, "Hybrid Vigor," won the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize in 2019, and Ford's pre-publication manuscript won the 2019 Everett Southwest Literary Award from the University of Central Oklahoma. Ford is...
Author Interview: Traci Chee [in Shelf Awareness]
30 Jun, by in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
The Magic of Reality Traci Chee is the author of The Reader Trilogy and the novel We Are Not Free, coming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 1. She studied literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and earned a Master of Arts degree from San Francisco...
Diversifying the Audiobook Industry: Four Asian American Narrators Take the Mic [in Library Journal]
11 May, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Indian American, Korean American, Lists, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers
The publishing industry has been hard hit by COVID-19: festival and conference cancelations, library and bookstore shutterings, disappearing book tours, publishers’ office closings, production delays – especially with international printers – and, alas, probably more obstacles to come. But digital audiobooks can be the ideal,...
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai + Author Interview [in The Booklist Reader]
01 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese
Filling a Lack of Voices from Inside Việt Nam: Talking with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Thousands of Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s devoted readers should have been meeting her live over these next few weeks to hear about The Mountains Sing, her first novel in English. But an unprecedented...
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park + Author Interview [in Shelf Awareness]
16 Mar, by in Author Interview/Profile, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Fan Fiction, 50 Years Later Almost two decades have passed since Linda Sue Park became the first Korean American – and only the second Asian American – to win the Newbery Medal, in 2002 for A Single Shard. She's since published dozens of titles (Gondra's Treasure; Forest of...
Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia + Author Interview [in Bloom]
10 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost
“We have to learn from history and stop repeating its mistakes” As the child of two Chinese refugees, Helen Zia can personally speak to the effects of displacement, separation, adaptation, and reinvention. In her memorable career as activist/journalist/writer/Asian American icon, Zia turns inward for the first time in...
The Farm by Joanne Ramos + Author Interview [in Bloom]
19 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian American
“I cared more about making the reader uncomfortable than happy, because … discomfort makes you question and think” She began her American life as a six-year-old immigrant from the Philippines. She entered adulthood with a Princeton pedigree which well-served her lofty finance career. She was a...
Now Hear This: Priya Ayyar [in Booklist]
12 Nov, by in Arab American, Audio, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Persian American, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers
“Bringing these diverse books to life” is why Priya Ayyar does what she does. She narrates the books she didn’t have when she was growing up – books that resonate with her experiences as a California-born Indian American. “To think that someone who’s Muslim American...
Knowing a Young Brown Person Might Listen and Feel Less Alone: The Narrative Life of Priya Ayyar [in The Booklist Reader]
24 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers
Although audiobooks are just part of Priya Ayyar’s acting career, demand for her narrative talents shows no signs of slowing down. Recent highlights from Ayyar’s audio career are the focus of the “Now Hear This” column in the November 1 issue of Booklist, but Ayyar...
Talking with: Edward Gauvin … in full [in The Booklist Reader]
31 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Taiwanese American, Translation, Young Adult Readers
A truncated version (edited for printing space) of this interview was published in the July 2019 issue of Booklist. The full interview appears below. With over 300 publishing credits, Edward Gauvin might be the hardest-working French-to-English translator ever. That tenacity has earned him major awards, including the John Dryden...