Press Play with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and Sujatha Gidla

Essays Reportage Marginalia Interviews Poetry Fiction Videos Everything

A regular round-up of our digital programming to keep you company at home.

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Marginalia | Christina Chiu, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Gaiutra Bahadur, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Neel Mukherjee, Press Play, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Sujatha Gidla
May 14, 2020

Welcome to Press Play, a regular round-up of our digital programming to keep you company at home.

New on AAWW at Home: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan joins us to talk about her new novel, Starling Days and reads from Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.
From the Archive: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha spoke with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson at an event on disability justice and collective care.
From the Archive: Sujatha Gidla, Neel Mukherjee, and Gaiutra Bahadur talk about Dalit exclusion in the publishing industry, the connection between caste and women’s oppression, Dalit solidarity with Black Americans, and much more.

COMING SOON

Next Wednesday, May 20 at 2 PM EST, you can join us at the next edition of Lit Lunch, our new IG Live interview series, with a special episode with two of AAWW’s co-founders! Marie Myung-Ok Lee will speak with Christina Chiu about her new book Beauty, the winner of the 2040 Book Award.
On Thursday, May 28 we’re holding a virtual reading and fundraiser for Laal NYC, featuring Nadia Q. Ahmad, Tarfia Faizullah, and Samira Sadeque.

The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is devoted to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice.