Blast from the Past

Here is an interview I did with Rachel Glass for Evergreen Radio/WTBBL in Seattle last year, before the motherhood explosion, when the conversation was really about Japan and the atomic bomb and writing.  It’s quite interesting to go back in time.  When Rachel and I sat down, we discovered, of all things, that her parents knew my parents in the old days in Hawaii.  It is, especially in the islands, a very small world.

The MP3 link is here.

Asian American Literary Award Finalist

The finalists for this year’s Asian American Literary Award in non-fiction this year are:

A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb by Amitava Kumar (Duke University Press Books)

The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (The Feminist Press at CUNY)

Come to the third annual Page Turner Festival, hosted by the Asian American Writers Workshop for a day of readings and panels, and a night of celebration and awards.  Check out the link above for updates!

PAGE TURNER
Saturday, October 29, 2011, 11am – 7pm
POWERHO– USE ARENA, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
$5 per event / $20  all day pass / $30 all-day pass (w/ AFTERWORD party)

September 10th at the Japanese American National Museum

This weekend, to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks,  I will be speaking and reading from Hiroshima in the Morning at the Japanese American National Museum.  The program starts at 2 pm.  The museum, if you have never been there, is beautiful and features the names of former internees of the WWII relocation centers – including my mother’s, grandparents’ and great uncles’ – etched in the glass.

Come join me, and please pass the word along! Reservations are apparently encouraged, but that doesn’t mean it is too late!

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL M– USEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
phone: 213.625.0414

When making a reservation, e-mail [email protected] or call 213.625.0414 at least 48 hours prior to the event.