Next week in San Francisco, a group reading to celebrate the launch of my book UNITED STATES OF REJECTION with @tdorabji.bsky.social @xtinehlee.bsky.social @gracelp.bsky.social & Joyce E. Young! Tuesday, June 30 (7pm) Green Apple @booksonthepark.bsky.social , 1231 9th Ave. RSVP link below!

念念不忘，必有迴響，有燈就有人。 And of course, the light can never be snuffed out.

Niao Collective@niaocollective.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And this, this is for HKers. Dots. No dots. Source: Instagram/ Telegram vawongsir, Jun 2021

Persepolis was read all over the world—a true international phenomenon. Assigned in every class subject under the sun. During the Obama years, West Point cadets were assigned the book. There's never been anything like it; never anyone like her. What an awful world that couldn't hold her longer.

What a tremendous loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi 💔

David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Once again.

We did it y’all. Bread Pillow Boy graduated from high school!!! 😭

I’m featured in The Perseverance Interviews today on how a viral tweet helped me turn my most-rejected essay into my biggest success. Thank you @megpokrass.bsky.social for inviting me to participate! megpokrass.substack.com/p/grace-loh-...

Congratulations to @vanessahua.bsky.social whose latest novel COYOTELAND arrives today!! If you’re in the Bay Area, come to the launch tonight at @booksmith.bsky.social otherwise check out her tour schedule 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Vanessa Hua@vanessahua.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Coyoteland is here! 🐺🐺🐺 Thank you to my amazing team @flatironbooks.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ Pick up a copy at your favorite local independent bookstore or local library, or download an audiobook 📕 Let's celebrate starting tonight @booksmith.bsky.social with @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social 's Oscar Villalon 🎂✨✨

Grateful and humbled to be included on @altajournal.bsky.social’s list of 20 recommended books for AAPI Heritage Month alongside so many friends and literary luminaries!! Thank you @anitafelicelli.bsky.social for this wonderful curated list. 🙌🏽

I made spaghetti carbonara with sardines instead of pancetta (since I don’t eat meat) and it was pretty good actually

Happy Mother’s Day to all immigrant and diaspora mothers 🌸 If you’d like to read more on these themes, I wrote a memoir called The Translator’s Daughter bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

As an author I love going to conferences and book fairs and meeting other writers and readers, but I only sold 2 books and ended up buying 4, proof that not all Asians are good at math 😂😭

I know it’s trivial in the scheme of things but I’m bummed that I can’t use one of my favorite emojis anymore because the twinkly star now symbolizes AI ✨😞

It finally happened. I’ve discovered the absolute limit of how many tabs I can have open at once before having a panic attack.

When your father is a professor and your mom directed Salaam Bombay

Steven Klein@stevenklein.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What is this framing my times?!

Oh look what time it is

Grace Loh Prasad@gracelp.bsky.social · last yr.

What do you mean AWP 2026 is open for submissions… we literally just got back

10 years ago I went to Taiwan 3x in 5 months as my dad’s health declined. I was wrestling w/ my grief at the same time we lost beloved artists & our country felt headed in the wrong direction. This essay is a time capsule from 2016 & Bowie was my soundtrack www.themanifeststation.net/2016/10/14/d...

Will probably delete this later but it made me cackle

I’m relieved Trump did not destroy an entire civilization last night, but his unhinged threat and illegal war make it clear he is unfit to serve as president. Trump needs to be removed from office. And we must oppose his administration’s new $1.5 trillion budget proposal for more war.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

People who actually write know that writing is inseparable from thinking. AI doesn’t think so its output isn’t writing… AI generates content that *sounds like writing* and sadly most people don’t know the difference 😑

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

A beautiful day in SF #NoKings

The No Kings protest in Portland has begun.

From Texas to Virginia to Minneapolis, people at No Kings protests agree: It is probably not great news that The Onion is doing so well right now.

No Kings in Boston!!

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things