The name of the remake of ‘Train to Busan’ has been changed to ‘Last Train to New York,’ which has sparked outrage. The American adaptation of Yeon Sang-Korean ho’s apocalyptic zombie thriller Train to Busan has supposedly been given a new title, which has enraged fans of the original film. According to a rumor published […]
Photo: Lee Yoo-mi as Ji-yeong and Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok in “Squid Game” (YOUNGKYU PARK/Netflix). Read the full Salon article here. Squid Game first came to my attention via Korean friends astonished at seeing their childhood games (if horrifically perverted) onscreen as a central plot point in a blockbuster Netflix series that seemed it could be as […]
By Michael Seidlinger | Oct 06, 2021, Publishers Weekly. Read the full article here The Asian American Writers Workshop is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of digital events and a three-month fundraising campaign. “It’s a lot of different pieces and that’s intentional,” said Jafreen Uddin, executive director. “Retrospectives are critical for taking stock of where […]
Read the full article by By Martha Vickery in Korean Quarterly The experience of being the only Korean, particularly the only Korean in a high school, is one that many Korean adoptee teens and many second-generation Korean American teens can relate to. It is partly because of author and native Minnesotan Marie Myong-Ok Lee’s description of […]
Photo Illustrator: Mark Wang. Author and creative writing professor Marie Myung-Ok Lee reflects on building the future you wish to see for yourself. Read the original article here With the seemingly endless reel of anti-Asian violence appearing on the news, of which the horrific murders of six Asian American women was just one particularly horrible incident, […]
Mark your calendars for June 22nd at 7PM ET for the premiere of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) in conversation hosted by Quiet Before. For the first time, I will be joining Curtis Chin, Christina Chiu, and Bino Realuyo to talk about the very seeds that birthed this iconic organization. Co-curated by Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity […]
By Leia Idliby May 21st, 2021, 10:42 am. Read the full article here. Teenaged Los Angeles band The Linda Lindas went viral for their performance celebrating AAPI Heritage Month, even gaining praise from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and Kid Cudi. The Linda Lindas — made up of Mila, 10, Eloise, 13, Lucia, 14, and Bela, 16 — […]
by Ellen Lee, AARP, May 18, 2021. Read the full article here. The story of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is not a singular one. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders hail from more than 20 countries, reflecting a multitude of languages, traditions, cultures — and narratives. Collectively they represent the fastest growing racial group in the United States, […]
Read the full article here The literary nonprofit Aspen Words will host six writers over the next six months in Woody Creek, restarting a writers-in-residence program that had been on pause during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Five resident authors will give free public talks on the lawn of the Red Brick Center for the Arts […]
Tell us about your work.I teach the Advanced Fiction Workshop in the undergraduate writing program. I am also in the final stages of preparing my novel, The Evening Hero, for publication by Simon & Schuster in 2022. I direct the Asian American Diasporic Writers series at The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER). What are you looking […]