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Catch us at the Little Tokyo Book Festival this SATURDAY (9/24) from 10am-6pm! Here are some of the wonderful books that will be available from our Japanese diaspora authors #littletokyo #bookfestival📚 (at Little Tokyo Historic District)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
RIP to a great talent and Kaya favorite
Alert for buyers
Nic Wong’s recent Lammy winner, Crevasse, is currently only available on the Kaya Website. Not on Amazon!
http://ow.ly/ehMW301lork
PRIVATE PARTS: AMERICAN STANDARD
-from Nicholas Wong’s Lambda Award-winning collection
Huge Congratulations to Nicholas Wong on Winning a Lambda Literary Award
Kaya poet Nicholas Wong won a “Lammy” for gay poetry for his collection to Crevasse!
Buy Crevasse here: http://kaya.com/books/crevasse/
Congratulations to all of the Lambda Literary Award winners!
The 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ literature were held this week. Congrats to all the Lammy winners!
Lesbian Fiction: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Gay Fiction: God in Pink by Hasan Namir
Bisexual Fiction: The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
Bisexual Nonfiction: Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
Transgender Fiction: Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners by Roz Kaveney
LGBT Debut Fiction: A Love Like Blood by Victor Yates
LGBT Nonfiction: “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy by Marcia M. Gallo
Transgender Nonfiction: Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency by Willy Wilkinson
Lesbian Poetry: Life in a Box is a Pretty Life by Dawn Lundy Martin
Gay Poetry (TIE): Crevasse by Nicholas Wong & Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips
Transgender Poetry: succubus in my pocket by kari edwards
Lesbian Mystery (TIE): Ordinary Mayhem by Victoria Brownworth & Tarnished Gold by Ann Aptaker
Gay Mystery: Boystown 7: Bloodlines by Marshall Thornton
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear by Kate Carroll de Gutes
Gay Memoir/Biography: James Merrill: Life and Art by Langdon Hammer
Lesbian Romance: Making A Comeback by Julie Blair
Gay Romance: When Skies Have Fallen by Debbie McGowan
Lesbian Erotica: The Muse by Meghan O’Brien
Gay Erotica: Érotiques Suprèmes by Miodrag Kojadinovic
LGBT Fiction Anthology: Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology edited by Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts
LGBT Nonfiction Anthology: Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy edited by Damien Luxe, Heather María Ács, and Sabina Ibarrola
LGBT Children’s/Young Adult: George by Alex Gino
LGBT Drama: Bright Half Life by Tanya Barfield
LGBT Graphic Novels: The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal by EK Weaver
LGBT SF/F/Horror: The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
LGBT Studies: A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire by Hiram Pérez
Big shoutout to Kaya poet Nicholas Wong
Day Two @ Bay Area Book Festival
....and it just keeps getting better!
Come see us at booth #29 from 10 AM-6 PM
Come visit Kaya Bay Area Book Festival
We’re in booth #29 in the Literary Lane section of the festival from 10-6 PM
We hung out with a Roman gladiator reenactor, who exists somewhere between actor, amateur athlete, and armchair historian.
Check out Anelise Chen’s recent article for VICE!
Kaya will publish Anelise’s book So Many Olympic Exertions next year.
Rolling the R's tells the stories of restless teenagers in the disco era in a gritty neighborhood in Hawaii. Author R. Zamora Linmark discusses the book's impact, 20 years after it first came out.
Kaya author R. Zamora Linmark was on NPR’s All Things Considered talking about the 20th anniversary of his seminal book Rolling the R's. Take a listen
Kaya Press is getting ready to travel up north! Come see us this weekend in Berkeley at the Bay Area Book Fest!
NOW ON AAWW TV: KATE GAVINO’S ABC’S OF BEING AN ASIAN AMERICAN WRITER
I created this list. It is my ABC’s of being an Asian American writer, and like most things there is an asterisk to this. These are my ABC’s and everyone has their own alphabet so I don’t expect this to be entirely universal, so I hope at least some of this is relatable.
So, I will start with “A,” which is for Ann M. Martin. She was the first author who introduced me to a three-dimensional, complex Asian American teenage girl in a book. And, I think that Claudia Kishi, the vice president of the Baby-Sitters Club, is probably the most complex mainstream depiction of an Asian American girl and I’m still holding out for her — one as good as her.
And then there’s “B,” which is for buddhas and chopsticks, which are two things that make me cringe when I see them on the cover of certain books and this long list includes everything from bowls of rice to dragon silhouettes to koi ponds.
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In celebration of Nic Wong‘s birthday (February 3rd), check out this beautiful review of CREVASSE that appeared in the Spring 2015 edition of The Asian American Literary Review!
“. . . Experimenting with a mixture of humor and pathos, the conceptual and the conversational, Wong circles solitude, the emotion perhaps best understood through invocations of absence. There is the impression a body leaves behind on a bed, a dramatic gap or hole in our lives, a hole through which we fall. Not only does Crevasse beg to be read, and read aloud, and read repeatedly, but as it embodies disturbance, desire, love, and loss, Crevasse demands to be inhabited: the gap closes, if only for as long as the book remains open, solid in your hands.”
Kaya Press is happy to announce that Cathy Linh Che will be joining our team as Publicity & Events Associate starting in January! Cathy is amazing poet and the Managing Director of Kundiman. Here she is with Kaya poet Nicholas Wong in Singapore, where they had a recent reading, eating KAYA TOAST. (Kaya toast is a popular toast snack with coconut jam.) How fitting!
The acclaimed playwright talks with us about dystopias, utopias, reproductive rights, and bi-racial horror stories. The world that the play is set in is kind of a semi-dystopian society in terms of the deplorable state of reproductive rights; in opposition to that, what are some aspects that would be present in your utopian version of …
This great interview with Sam Chanse was just featured in the latest issue of our Kaya Newsletter!
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Gene Oishi's novel FOX DRUM BEBOP recently received a most insightful review by Jenny Xie, published in The Hopkins Review! Read it HERE.
The launch of Lydia’s Funeral Video in NYC was a fun night of conversation between Kaya authors, Sam Chanse and Ed Lin. Both authors’ sense of humor shines through the page, and at this event, they shone on the stage. The two covered many topics–from the influence of San Francisco on the play to the …
