Celebrate Lunar New Year with USC’s American Studies and Ethnicity Club and the APASS DESI Project. The groups will be featuring Amarnath Ravva, author of AMERICAN CANYON, and Andrew Lam for an evening of dinner and discussion. Join us for an exploration of Asian-American identity through literature, including a book signing at the event’s end. Free […]
Congrats again to Koon Woon, who was awarded the 2014 American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation last year for his WATER CHASING WATER! A video of the entire awarding ceremony is now available on C-Span here.
“Read American Canyon not as a text about the immigrant’s loss of an Indian homeland, but as a text about the writer-filmmaker’s loss of material footage, his laboriously and lovingly constructed archive, which is reduced once again to the memories it was supposed to replace.” That is just part of the praise that Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan […]
Experience the beauty of Amarnath Ravva’s AMERICAN CANYON by viewing one of the four book trailers. Check out our other social media sites for the other three! “In these moments between the endless chain of flowers, I think of the mothers who placed me here…”
Emily Ballaine posted a review of Amarnath Ravva’s AMERICAN CANYON to The Improbable. In it, she praises Ravva’s hybridizing style and mastery of empty spaces. “American Canyon is a book that experiments with form, and when I say ‘experiment,’ I mean it in the truest sense of the word. I mean that Ravva approaches past […]
Baltimore Magazine hosted a Q&A with Gene Oishi, author of FOX DRUM BEBOP. The issues discussed are vast–ranging from Oishi’s opinion on writing fiction versus non-fiction to his comment on current racial relations. In the interview, Oishi also traces Americans’ shifting awareness of concentration camps in America and notes the euphemisms previously used to describe […]
