Singapore is known for order, safety, cleanliness. Singapore Noir, a new book edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, breaks us of that image. Join us for stories of geomancy, gambling, fisheries, and femmes fatales by Tan and contributors Damon Chua and Colin Goh. Moderated by Hirsh Sawhney (editor of Delhi Noir). Presented by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the Asian American […]

Jessica Hagedorn writes about the city of her birth, where “either nothing surprises you, or everything does.”

“My strength is writing about Chinese people and dirtbags, and Chinese dirtbags.”