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Minor Feelings An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

NEW YORK TIMES Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its re...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Dr. Gladys Hill recommended Minor Feelings, saying every contemporary essayist and popculture critic should be chasing the book.

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Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong. I think everybody who says that they are an essayist and a popular culture critic right now needs to be chasing this book.

— Episode: Your Success Probably Didn’t Come From M...

Episode: Your Success Probably Didn’t Come From Merit Alone

Dr. Gladys Hill recommended Minor Feelings, saying every contemporary essayist and popculture critic should be chasing the book.

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Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong. I think everybody who says that they are an essayist and a popular culture critic right now needs to be chasing this book.

Episode: Your Success Probably Didn’t Come From Merit Alone

It was recommended as a mustread culturalcriticism essay collection for anyone identifying as an essayist or popculture critic.

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Minor Feelings by Kathy Park Hong. I think everybody who says that they are an essayist and a popular culture critic right now needs to be chasing this book.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Podcast

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

It was mentioned as a book that everyone should read, particularly in relation to the experience of being a child of color and witnessing one's parents being humiliated.

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Kathy Park Hong writes about this in her book, Minor Feelings in Asian American Reckoning, everyone should read it, even if you're not Asian.

— Episode: "Matt and Bowen Get Too High"

Episode: "Matt and Bowen Get Too High"

It was mentioned as a book that everyone should read, particularly in relation to the experience of being a child of color and witnessing one's parents being humiliated.

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Kathy Park Hong writes about this in her book, Minor Feelings in Asian American Reckoning, everyone should read it, even if you're not Asian.

Episode: "Laughin n' Whackin" (w/ Matt & Bowen)

Bowen Yang recently finished reading this book and it helped him to contextualize his experiences with being stereotyped on SNL as a gay Asian man and his challenges as an Asian American writer.

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She has this whole essay in the book where she started at the Iowa writers workshop and Faced this frustration where she was like they tell you to write what you know

So I feel like I have to write about Asian stuff. But if I were to say Write about nature. Let's say the feeling around that is everyone being like, well, why is this Asian girl writing about nature?

Why isn't she writing about Asian stuff? I don't know It's a bit this is all to say that like survivor is or or shock test for the yes

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