Authors' Showcase
The Authors' Showcase at the 2009 AAJA National Convention offers a place for AAJA members to meet an eclectic group of AAJA members who have recently been published. AAJA's Authors' Showcase provides a small gallery for authors to gain visibility for their works. For AAJA authors who like to talk shop about food, visit AAJA Food Personalities.AND MAKE A DONATION TO AAJA
William Woo, "Letters from the Editor: Lessons on Journalism and Life" (University of Missouri Press). Woo was revered as both a writer and a reporter, and this volume collects some of the best of those essays to the next generation of journalists on their craft's high purpose. As inspiration for students from someone who knew the ropes, it distills the essence of the values that define independent journalism while offering them invaluable food for thought about their future professions. Donate to AAJA by purchasing Letters from the Editor.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
SEAPORT WORLD TRADE CENTER, BOSTON
**ALL AUTHORS WILL BE IN THE CAREER FAIR/EXPO HALL FROM 12 TO 1:30 PM SELLING/SIGNING BOOKS**
Please see individual panel times and locations below
SEAPORT WORLD TRADE CENTER
10:15 AM TO 11 AM
Joann Lee, "Asian Americans in the 21st Century" (The New Press) is a tapestry of tales reflecting the lives, experiences, hopes, and dreams of Asians in America. The spectrum of values--in education, family, work--form a remarkable mosaic of the Asian American experience, distinct in many ways from that of Asians living in Asia, or as immigrants encountering diaspora elsewhere in the world. Amongst the stories are the oral histories of Gary Locke, Dale Minami, Corky Lee, Gita Deane, and Jake Shimabukuro.
Mei-Ling Hopgood, "Lucky Girl" (Algonquin Books) is about one woman's surprise reunion and relationship with the complicated Chinese family that gave her up for adoption when she was a baby. Spanning cultures and continents, Mei-Ling Hopgood's memoir brings home a tale of joy and regret, hilarity, deep sadness, and great discovery, as she untangles the unlikely strands that formed her destiny.
Michelle Yu, "China Dolls: A Novel" (Thomas Dunne Books) is about three Chinese-American 20-somethings who pursue careers and Mr. Right in ultracompetitive New York City. Alex, Lin and M.J. have been friends since childhood, and, as the novel opens, none is married, and each is feeling pressure from her immigrant family to move to the next stage in life.
Minal Hajratwala, "Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) delves into the relationship between personal choice and the great historical forces that helped to shape her family's experiences, bringing to light the story of the Indian diaspora.
1:45 PM TO 2:30 PM
Ed Lin, "This is a Bust"(Kaya Press), the second novel by this award-winning author, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City's Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese-American cop.
Henry Chang, "Chinatown Beat" (Soho Press) is about Chinese-American NYPD Detective Jack Yu who has transferred back to his old neighborhood, Chinatown, to be closer to his ailing Pa. He encounters boyhood friends who have become hardened gangsters, and is haunted by the murder of a former teenage blood brother. After his father's untimely death, Jack investigates the murder of Chinatown tong boss Uncle Four, an investigation that drives Jack into the depths of the Chinatown underbelly.
SEAPORT WORLD TRADE CENTER
3:30 PM TO 5 PM
Edited by Ajay Nair and Murali Balaji, "Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asian America " (Lexington Books). This book is a collection of essays from South Asian American activists, academics, and hip-hop artists that explores four main ideas: hip-hop as a means of expression of racial identity, class status, gender, sexuality, racism, and culture; the appropriation of Black racial identity by South Asian American consumers of hip-hop; the furthering of the discourse on race and ethnic identity in the United States through hip-hop; and the exploration of South Asian Americans' use of hip-hop as a form of social protest.
Minal Hajratwala, "Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) delves into the relationship between personal choice and the great historical forces that helped to shape her family's experiences, bringing to light the story of the Indian diaspora.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RADCLIFFE GYMNASIUM, 18 MASON STREET, CAMBRIDGE
7 TO 9 PM
AAJA in partnership with the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK) features Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times journalist and author of the "Fortune Cookie Chronicles" for this presentation/book-reading which will benefit the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence's programs to provide hope to survivors and prevent domestic violence in Asian families and communities. Asian food reception, and beverages to be provided. Note: This event is free for all AAJA convention attendees who RSVP in advance to events@aaja.org by Tuesday, June 30. $10 at the door. No shuttle service provided for this event. CO-SPONSORED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Jennifer 8. Lee, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles" (Twelve) takes readers on a remarkable journey that is both foreign and familiar: penetrating this subculture by traveling the world (and almost every American state) in her quest to understand Chinese food and the people who make it.
12 TO 1:30 PM
Rick Rocamora, "Filipino WW II Soldiers: America's Second-Class Veterans" (San Francisco Veterans Equity Center with support from San Francisco Foundation, Zellerbach Family Fund, and Tancinco Law Offices). Rick Rocamora has documented the lives of the Filipino veterans, still clinging to hard-won medals, military commendations and scraps of uniforms as they make their way in San Francisco's toughest neighborhoods. Rocamora's deep connection to the veterans allows a rare view into their difficult but always dignified lives, and creates a poignant story of pain, persistence and hope. Rocamora's images have been part of investigative stories on the abuse of veterans in North Richmond, California, Medicare scam in San Francisco that used them, exhibitions in the US Congress and other venues and countless presentations and photo essays about their plight. His images have been part of their struggle and have been credited in inspiring others to advocate for equity for the veterans. A portion of book proceeds goes towards the San Francisco Veterans Equity Center. 10" x10", 86pp, BW duotone illustrations; historical chronology.
12 TO 1:30 PM
In "Secret Identities" (The New Press), editors Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow and Jerry Ma have brought together 66 top Asian American writers, artists and comics professionals to create 26 original stories centered around Asian American superheroes-stories set in a shadow history of our country, from the opening of the West to the election of the first minority president, and exploring ordinary Asian American life from a decidedly extraordinary perspective. All purchased books will receive a complimentary sketch by local artists featured in the book who will be on-site at convention.
- Alec Klein, "A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools"(Simon & Shuster)
- Douglas Blackmon, "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" (Doubleday)
- Jan Yanehiro, "This Is Not the LIfe I Ordered" (Conari Press)
- Joe Grimm, "Breaking In: The JobsPage.com Guide to Newspaper Internships"
- Linda Yueh, "Globalisation and Economic Growth in China (Series on Economic Development and Growth - Vol 1)"
- Michelle Yu, "China Dolls" (Thomas Dunne Books).
- Michael Yamashita, "New York: Flying High" (White Star)
- Murali Balaji, "The Professor and the Pupil: The Politics and Friendship of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson" (Nation Books)
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