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LiterASIAN Festival celebrates its special tenth anniversary festival, Finding Our Voices: Telling Our Stories, featuring authors and cultural activists from across North America. These past two years have been challenging years fraught with anti-Asian sentiments and even violence. This year’s festival, “Finding Our Voices, Telling Our Stories” features a speaker line-up that includes panel discussions, writing workshops, literary book talks, manuscript development sessions, and ends with a film screening that showcases the artistic creations of the featured speakers. In finding our voices again, the festival counters the anti-Asian racism that has sought to silence the contributions and dignity of Asian Canadians.

https://literasian.com/literasian-2022-schedule/

The author works within a ‘the novel of ideas’ framework that’s keen to explore philosophical and sociological matters ... Lucy and Bonbon will intrigue and outrage in equal quantities, I imagine.

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https://thebcreview.ca/2022/05/04/1454-grubisic-lepan/

Dandurand’s subjects are from his own hard life, of fighting, against bullies and racially motivated abuse, and sometimes professionally, since the age of four. The ineradicable memories of abuse at residential school. The madhouse, life on the streets of Vancouver, old love affairs or hopeless new ones. And the daily struggle to put food, frequently the fish he catches himself, on the table for three children. His imagery derives from the interplay of all that with a world of spirits, of the dead, but also of fish and cranes, owls and coyotes and sasquatch. So as far as imagery goes, the poems are full of imagery of a very unusual kind, just coming out of the fish, to start with:

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https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/nothing-nothing-review-susan-haley-joseph-dandurands-i-will-be-corrupted

LePan builds to a suspenseful conclusion, keeping the reader guessing until the end ... an interesting, entertaining, and emotionally impactful read.

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https://miramichireader.ca/2022/04/lucy-and-bonbon-by-don-lepan/

Read This Exclusive Excerpt from Cedric Yamanaka’s New Book “Made in Hawai‘i”:

https://www.honolulumagazine.com/read-this-exclusive-excerpt-from-cedric-yamanakas-new-book/

The admonition “don’t ask” is the punchline to a Myron Cohen joke. In perverse Jewish fashion, on the one hand we are chastised for not caring to ask questions– but when we relent and do, we are told, “You really don’t want to know."

Read the full interview:

https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2022/04/q-with-gina-roitman.html