Black Refuge and the Novel of Ideas: A Conversation With Maya Binyam Black Refuge and the Novel of Ideas: A Conversation With Maya Binyam
“Fiction is so incredibly rife with ethical questions.”
Aug 3, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
Hua Hsu’s Lesson in Friendship Hua Hsu’s Lesson in Friendship
His memoir Stay True is a moving portrait of friends, death, doubt, and everything in between.
Sep 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
An Intimate History of Hong Kong An Intimate History of Hong Kong
A conversation with Karen Cheung about her memoir The Impossible City, the nascent Hong Kong literary tradition, and understanding a period of upheaval through art and cultural exp...
May 4, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
The Unsure State of Asian America The Unsure State of Asian America
A conversation with Jay Caspian Kang about how the term “Asian American” became “mostly meaningless.”
Oct 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
The History of Publishing Is a History of Racial Inequality The History of Publishing Is a History of Racial Inequality
A conversation with Richard Jean So about combining data and literary analysis to understand how the publishing industry came to be dominated by white writers.
May 27, 2021 / Q&A / Rosemarie Ho
The Art of the Memoir With Japanese Breakfast The Art of the Memoir With Japanese Breakfast
A conversation with indie pop artist Michelle Zauner on cooking, grieving, and the role politics plays in music.
Apr 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
Migrant Massage Workers Don’t Need to Be Rescued Migrant Massage Workers Don’t Need to Be Rescued
Wu, a member of the sex worker collective Red Canary Song, discusses body work at the intersection of class, race, gender, and whorephobia.
Apr 2, 2021 / Q&A / Rosemarie Ho
Bryan Washington on Fiction ‘Outside the Bounds of Trauma’ Bryan Washington on Fiction ‘Outside the Bounds of Trauma’
A conversation about writing emphatically about marginalized communities, Houston’s diversity of cuisines and peoples, Japanese literature, and more.
Nov 25, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
For Ottessa Moshfegh, Novel Writing Is a Spiritual Experience For Ottessa Moshfegh, Novel Writing Is a Spiritual Experience
We talked to the writer about how she composes her books and how she gets into the minds of her characters.
Aug 6, 2020 / Q&A / Rosemarie Ho
Danez Smith Makes Room for the Messiness of Language Danez Smith Makes Room for the Messiness of Language
We talked to Smith about their new poetry collection, Homie, and what it means to create poetic space for your community.
Mar 5, 2020 / Q&A / Rosemarie Ho