Great Books by #AAPI Writers
This week Alice and Kim fangirl over Phoebe Robinson and share some favorite stories from American authors of East Asian descent.
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Nonfiction in the News
Entertainment Weekly: “Phoebe Robinson’s next book is coming this fall — here are all the details”
New Nonfiction
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work by Michael Blanding
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry Turkle
When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Books by East Asian Writers
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Time: “My White Adoptive Parents Struggled to See Me as Korean. Would They Have Understood My Anger at the Rise in Anti-Asian Violence?”
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
Reading Now
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by Holly Tucker
