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On our mid-month check in for June 2023, we review the latest Asian American book and publishing announcements, while Reera catches Marvin up with the latest tea from Asian book twitter.

Upcoming books mentioned in our publishing news:

• The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song
• The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
• Momo by Ranran Zhou
• If Lin Can by Richard Ho; illust. by Huỳnh Kim Liên and Phùng Nguyên Quan
• Wish I Was a Baller by Amar Shah; illust. Rashad Doucet
• This Is How You Fall in Love by Anika Hussain
• The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang
• Last Chance Academy series by Debbi Michiko Florence
• My Olive Tree by Hazar Elbayya
• The Last Dragon of the East by Katrina Kwan
• A Sky for the Birds by Rina Singh; illust. by Barkha Lohia
• The Beasts Beneath the Winds edited by Hanna Alkaf
• Simone by Viet Thanh Nguyen; illust. Minne Phan
• Threads by Ashley Wong
• Sophia Lee Can Fly by Marie Tang; illust. by Lenny Wen

News stories covered on this episode:

• British Museum Removes Writer’s Translations of Chinese Poetry After Being Accused of Copyright Infringement

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The Books & Boba June 2023 pick is We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen

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Don't miss an all AAPI production of HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts at The Public in NYC

NAATCO returns to The Public with their production of Shakespeare's trilogy, HENRY VI: A TRILOGY IN TWO PARTS, adapted and directed by Stephen Brown-Fried. Condensed into two parts and performed in rep, experience this saga of a nation spinning wildly out of control. Part 1: Foreign Wars kicks off with the funeral of King Henry V, leaving his infant son on the throne and sending the country into decades of spiraling chaos both abroad and at home. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later, as nascent domestic feuds rapidly metastasize into the full-blown civil war known as the War of the Roses.

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