Welcome to Asian Book Club Podcast! We're your hosts - Jamae and Steven. We highlight Asian and Asian American authors, spanning all genres, book formats, and reading lengths. We invite all readers and listeners to follow along with each pick. See you at the next read!
Did you eat yet? This is how our immigrant families show they care for and love us.
In this segment, we share the foods and specific food items we'd pair with the past five books we've read - Tif Marcelo's The Holiday Switch, Vivan Tu's Rich AF, Soo Jin Lee and Linda Yoon's Where I Belong, Chi Ta-Wei's The Membranes, and Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back.
This fifth episode in the Did You Eat Yet? series features charcuterie board foods!
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Hosts: Jamae Ann Sabangan and Steven Park
Edits: Steven Park
Music: Let's Get Together by Lunareh
9 Apr 2025
And She Said the Title (Book Club Pick 24.2)
In this second episode of book club pick no. 24, we talk about how the depth of the themes and shared the poems that stood out to us.
Hala Alyan is the author of four award-winning collections of poetry as well as the novel Salt Houses, which was the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. She is currently based in Brooklyn where she works as a clinical psychologist. You can learn more about her work at HalaAlyan.com (https://www.halaalyan.com/) and on Instagram @Hala.N.Alyan (www.instagram.com/Hala.N.Alyan).
Find us on AsianBookClubPod.com (https://AsianBookClubPod.com) and on Instagram @AsianBookClubPod (https://www.instagram.com/AsianBookClubPod/). You can also support us by buying books through Asian Book Club's Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/asianbookclubpod).
Recommendation of the Week: Elyanna is a Palestinian-Chilean who blends Arabic music, pop, and R&B. You can learn more about Elyanna on their website at Elyanna.com (https://Elyanna.com) and on Instagram @Elyanna (https://instagram.com/Elyanna).
Hosts: Jamae Ann Sabangan and Steven Park
Edits: Steven Park
Music: Drop It by Lunareh
2 Apr 2025
The Story Is What Shines Through (Book Club Pick 24.1)
In this first episode of book club pick no. 24, we talk about how we read poetry, the themes we noticed, and the poems that stood out to us
Hala Alyan is the author of four award-winning collections of poetry as well as the novel Salt Houses, which was the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. She is currently based in Brooklyn where she works as a clinical psychologist. You can learn more about her work at HalaAlyan.com (https://www.halaalyan.com/) and on Instagram @Hala.N.Alyan (www.instagram.com/Hala.N.Alyan).
Find us on AsianBookClubPod.com (https://AsianBookClubPod.com) and on Instagram @AsianBookClubPod (https://www.instagram.com/AsianBookClubPod/). You can also support us by buying books through Asian Book Club's Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/asianbookclubpod).
Recommendation of the Week: Ashtar Muallem is a theater- and circus-trained performing artist and yoga instructor. They are currently touring with their piece called "Cosmos". You can learn more about Ashtar Muallem on Youtube @AshtarMuallem (https://www.youtube.com/@AshtarMuallem) and on Instagram @Ashtar.Muallem (https://instagram.com/Ashtar.Muallem).
Hosts: Jamae Ann Sabangan and Steven Park
Edits: Steven Park
Music: Drop It by Lunareh
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