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Lena Nguyen

  Multiple Emmy-winning journalist Lena Nguyen graciously shared her story with me last year. I want to re-introduce it because she not only made history as a news anchor in the high LA market but also chose to reinvent herself, leaving the news desks. This is a story worth listening to. #celebrate…

#224 - The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

On this episode we are discussing our May 2023 book club pick, The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh. A story about a Vietnamese family dealing with the effects of a very petty curse that has resulted in generations of only daughters to be born to their family, and the modern decedents in Am…

#225 - Author Chat w/ Rita Chang-Eppig

For this author chat, we sit down with Rita Chang-Eppig about her debut novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, a historical fiction novel painting a portrait of legendary (and real life) Chinese pirate queen Shek Yeung who ruled the South China Seas in the early 19th century. We chat with Rita abou…

#226 - Author Chat w/ Uzma Jalaluddin

For this author chat, we talk to Uzma Jalaluddin about her latest contemporary romance Much Ado about Nada, a contemporary adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion taking place in a Muslim convention in Toronto. We chat with Uzma about her love of Austen, her background as an English teacher, and mor…

#227 - June 2023 Book News

On our mid-month check in for June 2023, we review the latest Asian American book and publishing announcements, while Reera catches Marvin up with the latest tea from Asian book twitter. Upcoming books mentioned in our publishing news: The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song The Kamogawa Food Detect…

#228 - We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen

On this episode we discuss our June 2023 book club pick, We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen. A Sci-Fi psychological thriller following Dr. Grace Park, a psychologist who hates people, serving on a spaceship that has been dispatched to the planet Eos for a colonization inspection, but as the me…

Why We Cling To Emotional Pain

A difficult conversation lasts ten minutes. An embarrassing moment lasts thirty seconds. A rejection lasts one interaction. So why do some of us carry those experiences for weeks, months, or even years afterward? In this spoken essay from Into the Arc, hosted by Lena Nguyen, we explore why the …