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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Making Sense of the World, Making Sense of Ourselves: Graphic Memoirs

Courtney Cook (The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces) and Laura Gao (Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American) explore how growing …

Asian American, Gender, Graphic Novel
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Accidental Detectives [You Don’t Want Coming After You!]

Join authors Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan Is Killing It!), Naomi Hirahara (An Eternal Lei), and Katharine Schellman (Silence in the Library), as they share the twists and turns of their …

Asian American, In-Person Programming, Virtual Programming
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Shadows of Grief

Victoria Chang (Dear Memory) and Kat Chow (Seeing Ghosts) share deep, personal sorrow in their recent memoirs, haunting portraits of grief, remembrance, and meaning. Their books offer close examinations of …

Asian American, In-Person Programming, Memoir
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

To Reimagine Time: Historical Fantasy

Natashia Deón (The Perishing), Nicole Glover (The Undertakers), and Shelley Parker-Chan (She Who Became the Sun) discuss their historical fantasy novels, each of which incorporate the magical or fantastic as …

Asian American, Black/African American, Fiction
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Speaking through History: Poetry of Persona

Poets Annie Kim (Eros, Unbroken) and Shara McCallum (No Ruined Stone) call on historical personas in their most recent books. They speak through and speak to these figures, engaging their …

Asian American, Poetry, Virtual Programming
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Secrets, Sisters, and Spies

Join authors Kellye Garrett (Like a Sister), Naomi Hirahara (Clark and Division), and Alma Katsu (Red Widow), as they share their highly-acclaimed, new mysteries offering keen explorations of sisterhood, both …

Asian American, Black/African American, In-Person Programming
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Sowing Care and Justice

Co-editors Mai-Linh Hong and Chrissy Yee Lau and contributor Valerie Soe (The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice) discuss the work of the Auntie …

Asian American, craftivism, Virtual Programming
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Accidental Gods: Mysticism & Faith in Literary Fiction

Curdella Forbes (A Tall History of Sugar) and SJ Sindu (Blue-Skinned Gods) discuss their latest novels, exploring ideas of face value and faith, love and relationships, and the occasionally mystical …

Asian American, Black/African American, Fiction
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

JMRL Same Page Community Read: We Are Not Free with Traci Chee

Traci Chee (We Are Not Free) discusses her acclaimed novel for young readers, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are …

Asian American, Fiction, Identity
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Dreaming up the World: Middle-Grade Fiction

Ruth Behar (Letters from Cuba), Alda P. Dobbs (Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna), Sylvia Liu (Manatee’s Best Friend), and Lisa Yee (Maizy Chen’s Last Chance) explore themes of family, migration, …

Asian American, Environment, Latinx
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On-Demand Video

Sights & Sounds: Visual Poetry

Poets David Campos (American Quasar), Naoko Fujimoto (Glyph), and Aurielle Marie (Gumbo Ya Ya) employ not only the written word but also a visual vocabulary in their work. Linking text …

Asian American, Black/African American, LGBTQ
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Press Releases, Stories | 2022 Festival

2022 JMRL Same Page Community Read selection: We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

In advance of the 2022 Festival schedule announcement later this month, we are honored to announce that We Are Not Free by Traci Chee, a National Book Award finalist book …

Asian American, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
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