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Miscellany Pop Culture Young Adult

Ellen Oh On “Crazy Rich Asians” and Representation

Ellen Oh is one of the founders of We Need Diverse Books, a nonprofit organization that promotes diversity of multiple forms in children's literature and publishing. She recently took to twitter to voice her dreams of more support for Asian American children's book authors and illustrators with the stardom Crazy Rich Asians has been…

Rachel CarterSeptember 7, 2018

Miscellany

“On Color” Prompts Us To Think About What We See

David Scott Kastan, a George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University and Stephen Farthing, an artist and elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, the University of Oxford, have collaborated on this beautiful, and educational book about the…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 24, 2018

Miscellany

Black, White and (well) Read: Diverse Bookfinder Makes Diversity in Children’s Literature a Priority

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, by 2020, "more than half of the nation's children are expected to be part of a minority race or ethnic group." Therefore, it will be important for literature, specifically books, to accurately represent the diversity of the population. Growing up as a biracial…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaNovember 17, 2017

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Anxiety, Representation, and Fearless Women

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. What does it mean to be a fearless woman? Authors Mary Robinette Kowal and Robyn Bennis have a few ideas. In their recent works, both authors have explored what it means to be a trailblazer in male-dominated arenas. Kowal’s Lady Astronaut duology (The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky)…

BookishAugust 1, 2018

Fiction Podcasts

‘Welcome to Night Vale’: Chatting it Up with Author Jeffrey Cranor

When you listen to the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, it doesn't matter if you were a fan from the beginning, or you became one after listening. Maybe you found it on Tumblr: the thing that becomes immediately apparent from the moment you first hear Cecil's voice is that this is like…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaOctober 23, 2017

Ellen Oh On “Crazy Rich Asians” and Representation

“On Color” Prompts Us To Think About What We See

Black, White and (well) Read: Diverse Bookfinder Makes Diversity in Children’s Literature a Priority

Anxiety, Representation, and Fearless Women

‘Welcome to Night Vale’: Chatting it Up with Author Jeffrey Cranor

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