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