Dandi Meng
Pizza Girl delivers a dose of supreme and uneasy realism as a young woman...
Pizza Girl, the debut novel from Jean Kyoung Frazier, is, at its heart, a fascinating character study of its narrator, Jane. Jane is 18, pregnant, and working at a pizza restaurant in LA, seemingly...
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A mother, a son, an unread letter
Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, takes the form of a letter that will never be read. The novel’s main character, Little Dog, writes to his illiterate mother in fragmented anecdotes...
Autobiography of Death: Forty-Nine Poems to Guide You to the Afterlife
Seattle-based poet and translator Don Mee Choi has long been an advocate and translator for Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, and the newly published Autobiography of Death – the sixth book of Kim’s that Choi...
“Goodbye, Vitamin” feeds you lasagna and doesn’t let you forget
Rachel Khong is best known as the former executive editor of the much loved and recently-shuttered food magazine Lucky Peach and the author of the cookbook/eggy encyclopedia All About Eggs. With credentials like these,...
The easy and the hard of ‘Harmless Like You’
For the characters in Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut novel, 'Harmless Like You,' the only way to leave a mark is by doing harm. While there are certainly moments of explicit and dramatic violence in the novel, the book mostly unfolds through small, harmful acts that, strung together, tell a larger story about race, gender, and belonging that spans from the late 1960s to the present.