#aimee phan

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (May 6th, 2025)

___

Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

___

New Releases:

If I Could Go Back by Briana Johnson

All We Lost Was Everything by Sloan Harlow

It's You Every Time by Charlene Thomas

The Thrashers by Julie Soto

The Glittering Edge by Alyssa Villaire

The Lost Queen by Aimee Phan

All's Fair in Love & Field Hockey by Kit Rosewater

The Rebel's Guide to Pride by Matthew Hubbard

Stuck Up & Stupid by Angourie Rice & Kate Rice

The Enemies Daughter by Melissa Poett

Come Home to My Heart by Riley Redgate

I Can't Even Think Straight by Dean Atta

Up in Smoke by Nick Brooks

His Face is the Sun by Michelle Jabès Corpora

Murder Land by Carlyn Greenwald

Sometimes the Girl by Jennifer Mason-Black

Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren Suma

This Thing of Ours by Frederick Joseph

Andre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams

New Sequels:

The Survivor Wants to Die at the End (Death-Cast #2) by Adam Silvera

Happy reading!

[lifeinpoetry]

I contain her rage.

—  She Who Has No Master(s), from “From My Mother I Inherited,” published in BOMB

[skankypossum]

May 27: American Library in Paris Hosts Reading with Vietnamese Women Writers

May 27: American Library in Paris Hosts Reading with Vietnamese Women Writers

  The Library is pleased to present a collective reading and presentation called “She Who Has No Master(s)” showcasing nine women writers of Vietnamese descent, now located in the U.S., Canada, and France, who will come together and read from a collective project exploring themes such as displacement, silence, memory and trauma, repercussions of war and colonialism. The writing collective…

View On WordPress

[manteivvietnam]

Here, Nguyen joins fellow authors Andrew Lam (East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres and Birds of Paradise Lost) and Aimee Phan (We Should Never Meet and The Reeducation of Cherry Truong) to discuss their writing, their inspirations, the diasporic Vietnamese literary community, and the future of Vietnamese American literature.

[merulae]

But despite the harshness of their voices, the screams, the taunting, their words always felt rooted in intimacy.

Aimee Phan, The Reeducation of Cherry Truong

[merulae]

Every story ends with a lesson: everyone has choices taken away from them. Despair is pushed into our lives. We can only control how we recover.

Aimee Phan, The Reeducation of Cherry Truong

[manteivvietnam]

Five award-winning writers read from their most recent work and discuss the craft and politics of writing in the diverse genre of Vietnamese American fiction.

Aimee Phan is the author of two books of fiction: We Should Never Meet and The Reeducation of Cherry Truong. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Hedgebrook. She chairs the writing and literature program at California College of the Arts.

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer and short stories in venues like Best New American Voices and Narrative. He is the founder and editor of the blog diaCRITICS, the leading online source for Vietnamese and diasporic arts, culture, and politics. He teaches at USC.

Bich Minh Nguyen (who goes by Beth) is the author of the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, which received the PEN/Jerard Award, the novel Short Girls, which received an American Book Award, and the novel Pioneer Girl. She directs the MFA in writing program at the University of San Francisco.

Vu Tran is the author of the novel Dragonfish. He is the winner of a Whiting Award, and his fiction has appeared in publications like the O. Henry Prize Stories and the Best American Mysteries. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.

Dao Strom is the author of Grass Roof, Tin Roof, a novel, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys, a collection of novellas, and We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People, a memoir with accompanying music album, East/West. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.

@ Gold Salon 4, JW Marriott Los Angeles, 1st Floor         Friday, April 1, 2016 10:30 am to 11:45 am

[leopardlit]

Author and teacher Aimee Phan joins Jian to explain how she believes mainstream media, publishers and reviewers are failing writers of colour. Phan argues that certain voices and vantage points are being systematically pushed out of the cultural conversation. Phan notes that work by writers of colour is, by and...