On this episode, we highlight the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our September 2022 mid-month check-in, this month we also check out some recent book awards updates and have a chat about the sad recent trends of book bans.

New books and authors mentioned in our publishing news:

Song of the Six Realms by Judy Lin
Good Fortune by C.K. Chau
Covenant series by LySandra Vuong
Oxherd Boy by Regina Linke
My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang
Toto by Hyewon Yum
A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai
The Spirit Mirror by Roshani Chokshi
A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel
The No-Shoes Home by Helena Ku Rhee; illust by Myo Yim
I Drew a Heart by Gillian Sze
Perfect by Waka T. Brown; illust by Yuko Jones
Ganesha Goes Green by Lakshmi Thamizhmani; illust by Debasmita Dasgupta
A Sky That Sings by Anita Sanchez & George Steele; illust by Emily Mendoza
Goodnight Zodiac Animals by Jiemei Lin
Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist by Mia Wenjen; illust by Keith Henry Brown
Together on Eid by Sana Rafi; illust by Mariam Quraishi
When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
As She Appears by Shelley Wong
The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee
Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Seasons of Purgatory Shahriar Mandanipour
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
Ibn Arabi’s Small Death by Mohammed Hasan Alwan

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