Join Pacific Underground today at 11AM on 90.7fm or KBOO.fm for a great conversation with four out of the five members of new independent publishing powerhouse that happens to be majority API-led, the Accomplices! We chat about the AWP Conference that was just here in Portland this spring, building community, making space for underrepresented voices, and how crazy one has to be to plan 90 literary events in 90 days in a city (answer: pretty damn crazy). Check them out, buy their books, attend one of their events! Best ramen/fried chicken in the business.
The Accomplices are: Civil Coping Mechanisms, Entropy, and Writ Large Press. http://theaccomplices.org/
For the last part of today's episode, Producers Sara and Jenna are joined by friend of the show Ryan Nakano to talk about the ethics of Penguin-Random House using a legal loophole to publish an unauthorized reissue of foundational Asian American and Japanese American novel No No Boy, without contacting the estate of John Okada or compensating the family in any way. https://www.nytimes.com/.../06/books/no-no-boy-penguin.html
May and API Heritage Month might be over now, but that doesn't mean our communities have achieved equality, or that inequities in arts access or publishing would all of a sudden go away.
- KBOO