The diagnosis is bad. Louise Nutter’s breast cancer is sudden, it’s severe, and it will most likely be fatal. “This is not over; it just started,” she says expressionlessly to S. Casper Wong, who is holding the video camera. The two friends are sitting across from each other on the floor... Read more...
When Kevin Shen first moved to London over four years ago, he felt like he was transported to an America from the 1990s. Shen grew up in Orange County and lived in New York City – both places where the Asian and Pacific Islander population is well-represented. He was therefore a little surprised b... Read more...
When they realized that the theater industry had limited prospects for young people of color, Kat Yen and Ming Peiffer created their own opportunities. Now 25 years old, the emerging young artists founded Spookfish Theater in New York City in February 2010. By their third year as a company, they had... Read more...
Discovering the Vietnamese Kitchen Cookbook author, cooking teacher, and communications consultant Andrea Nguyen recalls her earliest food memory. She was five years old and still living in Vietnam. She sat on a little wooden bench eating a bowl of pho and using her own chopsticks. “I ate t... Read more...
At ALIST, we love stories. We believe in following dreams and ambition, and we recognize the multitude of heartaches and struggles that can occur along the way. These recently released novels by Asian American writers tackle the universal motifs of desire, sex, tragedy, greed and more. They are en... Read more...
