Soapberry Review

Happy pub day to @hyeseungs & her memoir, Docile! 🎉 Today, we've got an interview of Song w/ @helena_rho in which the two discuss how different mediums of art inspire each other, family, and what drew Song to write a memoir. Read interview here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4227

Sending solidarity to all my Appalachia anothers today. Honored to have these words up at @guardian. Please give them a read. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Tuazon—likes to write an authentic experience even if it doesn’t resonate w/ everyone, writes about his own experience & those who know will know (ex: Eagle Rock Plaza, “a bunch of Filipinos at @JollibeeUSA”), trusts that the reader will get it or look it up

Tuazon on influence—reads a lot, life is strange, accepting that strangeness is part of life, Filipinos are natural storytellers but they don’t write it down, they usually just tell their kuyas or ates

Today we’re live Tweeting from the OC Book Fair! Right now, we’re listening to the Evoking Place in Prose panel featuring E.P. Tuazon, author of Professional Lola!

"Each story is pleasantly offbeat, dyed in brutal honesty and occasionally sparkling with something like joie de vivre." - @frankiemilktea on @iamlisako's Memory Piece Read review here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4068

Happy 101st birthday to poet @MitsuyeYamada! Today, we're celebrating with an interview between Mitsuye and Asian American lit scholar, Justine Trinh, about her poetry collection, Full Circle! 🎂 Read here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4195

"@aimeenez’s Bite by Bite is truly nourishing...her experiences shed light on how connected we are w/ the food we often take for granted. Let our soul feel satiated w/ our experiences through ulam & our identities through kanin." - Akira Park Read here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4109

"Your book [dear elia] is changing and saving lives: I can personally attest to this. This book is a reminder that we are not alone in our unwellness, and we must weather it together if we want to survive." Read Justine Trinh's letter to Mimi Khúc here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4103

SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A WEEK IF THESE CUTS GO THROUGH!! WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL THE END OF JUNE TO TELL @NYCMAYOR #NOCUTSTOLIBRARIES AND SAVE THE LIBRARY.

Announcing the 29th winner of the #WomensPrize for Fiction – @V_V_G with her novel Brotherless Night. Congratulations Sugi! With thanks to our sponsors @Audible_UK and @BaileysOfficial #WomensPrize

This week, @tiesto_eliot asks of @PKhakpour's Tehrangeles, "How can one authentically depict a community that exists beyond the believability of satire itself? What happens when reality eclipses the ridiculous & outlandish dimensions of satire?" Read here: soapberryreview.com/?p=4105

"What struck me the most about Cinema Love was the way it handles the topic of love versus care, the way [Jiaming] Tang questions what is love and what does it look like." - @audreyfongfong Read review here: soapberryreview.com/?p=3900

Join us this June for the first two book clubs of our summer book club series led by Justine Trinh & @audreyfongfong. The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu💅🏼 June 8, 5:00 p.m. PST Stranger Intimacy by Nayan Shah June 29, 5:00 p.m. PST RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its 2025 Global Asias Summer Institute, "The Institutional Forms of Global Asias." The application deadline is January 17, 2025. Please visit our website: bit.ly/4bSUbg3 or see flyer for details

RIP Professor Gary Okihiro. In our brief interview he spoke of African history, his own education, his garden, and thanked “my dearest students, my best teachers.” ritm.yale.edu/about/faculty/…

"Chang’s writing has a fluidity & cleverness about it that I appreciate...I love that this story is unapologetically unique and I love that the author did not hold back." - @booknerdkat on Abraham Chang's 888 Love & the Divine Burden of Numbers Read here: soapberryreview.com/?p=3975

Palestine Is in Asia: An Asian American Argument for Solidarity thenation.com/article/world/… Must read by Viet Thanh Nguyen 🫶✊