My book has a cover! July 2023 with Scribner

What a pleasure to find this Katie Kitamura essay at the The Sewanee Review: thesewaneereview.com/articles/sprawl

Two-thirds of Republican county election officials in New York were prepared to violate the law by refusing to process absentee ballots. We sued one county (Albany). Ten minutes later, they all started to back down. Today AP reported they all counted.
democracydocket.com/cases/new-york…

A gentle reminder that there’s no need to dress up for Halloween. Your true monster is on the inside. And anyone who loves you knows it.

For New York Times Books I wrote about the ghost stories collected by the Federal Writers Project during their interviews with the formerly enslaved.
nytimes.com/2022/10/28/boo…

Harvard Youth poll:

40% of 18-to-29-year-olds will 'definitely' vote in the midterms — that's on track to match or potentially exceed the record-breaking 2018 youth turnout in a midterm. Young voters prefer Democratic control of Congress 57% to 31%.

I was super nervous for my fiction debut but here it is! My short story is about family, generational divides, obscure movies, and the Korean church. Thank you carvezine for the opportunity to be published both online and in print! 💛🥳

carvezine.com/story/fall-202…

If there is even a remote chance you qualify for the expanded student loan forgiveness that ends on 10/31, I urge you to apply. I dragged my feet but the application took 20 mins and getting signatures has been easy with just a bit of legwork to figure out where to go.

💥💥💥 “Jones creates a kaleidoscope of shared and private grief—mass shootings, American racism, a mother’s death—which also celebrates the ingenuity that it takes to survive.” The Best Books of 2022 So Far | The New Yorker newyorker.com/best-books-2022

I write about diasporic peoples, so I also write about “cultural bereavement.” 🔗 for the beautiful and moving article by Alisha H. Gupta for The New York Times🧵

In 1950, my father was a 16 y.o. war refugee fleeing Wonsan, North Korea. He carried with him a wallet-sized photo of his mother, whom he never saw again. Decades later, I had the crumpled photograph restored and re-sized. Today, my beautiful grandmother is in ⁦The New York Times⁩.

Anxious about the midterms? You can do something about it! Come write letters to get out the vote with a bunch of fun writers and comics creators on 10/25! mobilize.us/votefwd/event/…

if my knees are still this sturdy after damn near half a century, I too will be doing this everywhere at all times

A great conversation between Celeste Ng and R.O. Kwon 권오경 about OUR MISSING HEARTS!

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BREAKING: The U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency has launched an investigation into the State of Mississippi for possible civil rights violations over the Jackson water crisis, the agency told the NAACP in a letter today.
mississippifreepress.org/28565/epa-inve…