(Photo by Bruce Hemingway, courtesy of University of Washington). I was the keynote speaker for the 2020 Friends of UW Libraries Annual Lecture in Jan...
Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Wong, and Chan’s daughter Jennifer, photographed near San Quentin State Prison, in Marin Co...
I was recently interviewed by Bill Kenower for Author Magazine....
Thank you to my colleague, Vince Schleitwiler, for this excellent and humbling essay on my 50-year journey with John Okada’s novel, No-No Boy, p...
My “Aiiieeeee!” origin story is out online on the Asian American Writing website. Forty-five years later the new edition of the landmark a...
Author Shawn Wong at his IBM typewriter in his San Francisco apartment in 1974. The images counterclockwise over his head are: a poster from the First...
The New York Times story by Thessaly La Force on the rediscovery of No-No Boy is online today. It tells the beginning of my almost 50 year journey wit...
I’m mentioned in this New Yorker article in which “a literary critic and a psychotherapist study broken narratives and missing words to un...
Vince Schleitwiler asked prominent writers and scholars, myself included, to recommend our favorite overlooked pieces of Asian American literature. Re...
Tracy Brown wrote an article for Tribune News Service concerning the controversy of Penguin Classics’ publication of John Okada’s “N...
Northwest Asian Weekly’s Mahlon Meyer interviewed me about my battle with Penguin Random House over the copyright of John Okada’s “N...
Thelonious Goerz wrote an article for The Daily of the University of Washington about the recent outrage and legalities surrounding Penguin Random Hou...
The ASA released a statement in support of Univeristy of Washington Press’s edition of John Okada’s “No-No Boy.” Here’s ...
Vince Schleitwiler wrote a piece for International Examiner about the publication history of John Okada’s “No-No Boy” and the social...
In this excerpt from “John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy,” I recount discovering “No-No Boy”...
South China Morning Post wrote an article about the copyright and moral concerns surrounding Penguin’s recent publication of John Okada’s ...
Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times arts critic, wrote a piece about the controversy surrounding Penguin’s recent publication of John Okada’s &...
Chris Fochs wrote a piece for NBC News about the controversy surrounding Penguin Random House’s recent publication of John Okada’s “...
The Los Angeles Times’ Tracy Brown wrote a piece on the publication history of John Okada’s “No-No Boy,” and the backlash caused by Pengui...
Alexandra Alter wrote a piece for the New York Times about the history of John Okada’s “No-No Boy”, our work in the 70’s to co...
Frank Abe, Co-editor of “John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered work of the Author of No-No Boy,” covered the campaign to get people, parti...
The University of Washington Graduate School interviewed me about how I work. This series was inspired by Lifehacker’s How I Work. Read the inte...
This story by Mary Kollar appeared in “Perspectives” newsletter. A snippet: “A statue of the philosopher Giordano Bruno stands promi...
A piece about a former student of mine, Jane Yang, and our time teaching basketball players in China. A snippet: “It’s a Tuesday afternoon in ...
This profile details my work with the Red Badge Project. The Red Badge Project is “a nonprofit in partnership with the military [which] teaches ...