Ranked #1
Pachinko (ft. Min Jin Lee & Ken Chen)
Pachinko (ft. Min Jin Lee & Ken Chen)
We're featuring audio from a 2017 event collaboration with the Tenement Museum. We celebrated the launch of author Min J... Read more
13 Mar 2019
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #2
Poetry Potluck I with Ocean Vuong, Janine Joseph, Wendy Xu, and Jennifer Hayashida
Poetry Potluck I with Ocean Vuong, Janine Joseph, Wendy Xu, and Jennifer Hayashida
We’re starting a new series called Poetry Potluck featuring audio from our favorite AAWW poetry events and showcasing ex... Read more
14 Mar 2018
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1hr 23mins
Ranked #3
Roxane Gay & Alexander Chee
Roxane Gay & Alexander Chee
In 2014, just after the publication of her landmark essay collection Bad Feminist we hosted Roxane Gay in conversation w... Read more
27 Dec 2017
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1hr 28mins
Ranked #4
Dear Life (ft. Yiyun Li, Porochista Khakpour, & Elif Batuman)
Dear Life (ft. Yiyun Li, Porochista Khakpour, & Elif Batuman)
In this episode of AAWW Radio, authors Yiyun Li and Porochista Khakpour discuss how depression and chronic illness have ... Read more
20 Jun 2018
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #5
Occupied Kashmir: Poetry and Disappearance
Occupied Kashmir: Poetry and Disappearance
How do you simultaneously disappear people and their hope? Can you keep that hope alive through writing? On this episode... Read more
9 Oct 2019
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55mins
Ranked #6
Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion
Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion
In late 2016 we celebrated the launch of Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebel... Read more
24 Jan 2018
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1hr 34mins
Ranked #7
Decolonizing Tourism (ft. Farzana Doctor, Bani Amor, Tiphanie Yanique & Julia Hori)
Decolonizing Tourism (ft. Farzana Doctor, Bani Amor, Tiphanie Yanique & Julia Hori)
Travel writing is a genre rife with fantasies of escape, luxury, and finding oneself through an experience in an unfamil... Read more
3 Jan 2018
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1hr 45mins
Ranked #8
The Woman Warrior (feat. Maxine Hong Kingston & Monique Truong)
The Woman Warrior (feat. Maxine Hong Kingston & Monique Truong)
In 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston published The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. A searing and subtly funn... Read more
17 Jan 2018
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1hr 38mins
Ranked #9
Writing Asian American Food (ft. Lillian Li, Ligaya Mishan, Naben Ruthnum, & Rohan Kamicheril)
Writing Asian American Food (ft. Lillian Li, Ligaya Mishan, Naben Ruthnum, & Rohan Kamicheril)
On this episode of AAWW Radio we hear from New York Times Hungry City columnist Ligaya Mishan, Number One Chinese Restau... Read more
27 Jun 2018
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1hr 27mins
Ranked #10
The Collected Schizophrenias (ft. Esmé Weijun Wang & Larissa Pham)
The Collected Schizophrenias (ft. Esmé Weijun Wang & Larissa Pham)
We hosted a reading and conversation with novelist Esmé Weijun Wang, author of the New York Times-bestselling new essay ... Read more
5 Jun 2019
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1hr
Ranked #11
Go Home! Pt. 1
Go Home! Pt. 1
We’re highlighting the recent launch of Go Home!, our anthology published in collaboration with the Feminist Press, feat... Read more
21 Mar 2018
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56mins
Ranked #12
Words on Terror (ft. Solmaz Sharif, Mariam Ghani, Cathy Park Hong, & Rickey Laurentiis)
Words on Terror (ft. Solmaz Sharif, Mariam Ghani, Cathy Park Hong, & Rickey Laurentiis)
Two years ago on this month, we celebrated the release of Solmaz Sharif's award-winning debut poetry collection Look. He... Read more
11 Jul 2018
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1hr 28mins
Ranked #13
Vietnamese Ghost Stories (ft. Thanhha Lai, Vu Tran, Violet Kupersmith, & Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis)
Vietnamese Ghost Stories (ft. Thanhha Lai, Vu Tran, Violet Kupersmith, & Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis)
In March, we co-presented a series of conversations with DVAN, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. For this podcas... Read more
8 May 2019
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33mins
Ranked #14
New Filipinx Literature (ft. Elaine Castillo, Luis H. Francia, Joseph O. Legaspi & Gina Apostol)
New Filipinx Literature (ft. Elaine Castillo, Luis H. Francia, Joseph O. Legaspi & Gina Apostol)
Elaine Castillo's debut novel America is Not the Heart is a vibrant and starkly hilarious novel about the De Vera family... Read more
16 May 2018
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1hr 36mins
Ranked #15
You Don't Say No To Yuri Kochiyama (ft. Fred Ho, Diane C. Fujino, Baba Herman Ferguson, Esperanza Martell, Laura Whitehorn)
You Don't Say No To Yuri Kochiyama (ft. Fred Ho, Diane C. Fujino, Baba Herman Ferguson, Esperanza Martell, Laura Whitehorn)
We’re reaching back over a decade into our archives to 2005, when Diane C. Fujino released Yuri Kochiyama's biography He... Read more
9 Jan 2019
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #16
Losing Faith in The Incendiaries (ft. R.O. Kwon & Alexander Chee)
Losing Faith in The Incendiaries (ft. R.O. Kwon & Alexander Chee)
The Incendiaries is a dark, glittering, and obsessive new novel from R.O. Kwon. It’s a fractured love story, a inside lo... Read more
5 Sep 2018
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49mins
Ranked #17
Disability Justice (ft. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha & Cyrée Jarelle Johnson)
Disability Justice (ft. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha & Cyrée Jarelle Johnson)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice outlines what it means to create spaces by and... Read more
5 Nov 2018
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1hr 29mins
Ranked #18
Love and Korean Democracy (ft. Jimin Han, Grace Yoojin Wuertz, & E. Tammy Kim)
Love and Korean Democracy (ft. Jimin Han, Grace Yoojin Wuertz, & E. Tammy Kim)
We're featuring two Korean American novelists, Jimin Han and Yoojin Grace Wuertz, who read from their debut novels that ... Read more
7 Mar 2018
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1hr 30mins
Ranked #19
Womxn Writers on Motherhood (ft. Tina Chang, T Kira Madden, and Sahar Muradi)
Womxn Writers on Motherhood (ft. Tina Chang, T Kira Madden, and Sahar Muradi)
Listen to writers Sahar Muradi, T Kira Madden, and Tina Chang read works about mothers and motherhood. Sahar Muradi sha... Read more
7 Aug 2019
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1hr 22mins
Ranked #20
Go Home! Pt. 2
Go Home! Pt. 2
As an Asian American, what is your Wakanda? Did you ever consider it being the obscure 2005 Xbox game Jade Empire? On th... Read more
28 Mar 2018
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57mins