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Encouraging ‘multicultural representation and societal equity,’ nonprofit Gold House releases its latest book recommendation list amid anti-Asian violence in many parts of the world.
Entering Tiananmen Square in Beijing, December 2017. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Mostofa Siraj Mohiuddin
Authors on the List Include Vuong, Zauner, Bulosan
Regular readers of
Publishing Perspectives may remember our writeup in October of the inaugural Gold House Book Club program designed to “champion authentic Asian representation through media to reshape public opinion.”
Today (June 4), on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, we have news of the second list of titles issued by the program.
The company behind the program, Gold House, is a nonprofit collective “dedicated to unifying the world’s largest populace, Asians and Pacific Islanders, to enable more authentic multicultural representation and societal equity.” It’s interesting that during a time of so
by Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times/TNS | February 19, 2021
Lynn Wu checks to make sure the Brailler is ready before her Braille Challenge finals test. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
LOS ANGELES The challenger sat alone at a square folding table in the center of her teacher’s immaculate living room, stockinged feet whispering against the plush, white carpet, hands poised over a blue Perkins Brailler something like a manual typewriter crossed with a court reporter’s steno machine. To say the Brailler is loud is an understatement. The force required to emboss Braille paper produces a noise less like typing and more like repeatedly firing a BB gun.