On this episode, we highlight the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our September 2022 mid-month check-in, this month we also check out some recent book awards updates and have a chat about the sad recent trends of book bans.

New books and authors mentioned in our publishing news:

• Song of the Six Realms by Judy Lin
• Good Fortune by C.K. Chau
• Covenant series by LySandra Vuong
• Oxherd Boy by Regina Linke
• My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang
• Toto by Hyewon Yum
• A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai
• The Spirit Mirror by Roshani Chokshi
• A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel
• The No-Shoes Home by Helena Ku Rhee; illust by Myo Yim
• I Drew a Heart by Gillian Sze
• Perfect by Waka T. Brown; illust by Yuko Jones
• Ganesha Goes Green by Lakshmi Thamizhmani; illust by Debasmita Dasgupta
• A Sky That Sings by Anita Sanchez & George Steele; illust by Emily Mendoza
• Goodnight Zodiac Animals by Jiemei Lin
• Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist by Mia Wenjen; illust by Keith Henry Brown
• Together on Eid by Sana Rafi; illust by Mariam Quraishi
• When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
• The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
• All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
• As She Appears by Shelley Wong
• The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
• A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee
• Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
• All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
• Seasons of Purgatory Shahriar Mandanipour
• Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
• Ibn Arabi’s Small Death by Mohammed Hasan Alwan

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