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Jun 18, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Jami Nakamura Lin
When I first met Ananda Lima—at Sewanee Writers’ Workshop back in 2022—we were delighted to discover that we both lived in the Chicago area. Over the next couple years, I had the pleasure of hearing her read excerpts of what became Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, a book that breaks the boundaries of both form and genre.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
foodandwine.com | Jami Nakamura Lin
Photo: Getty Images The only thing worse than wasting those last bits of food stuck in the curves of your pots and pans is having to scrub the gunk off with a sponge. Anyone who’s stuck their bare hands in a pot full of claggy oatmeal water knows what I mean: A sponge often simply isn’t up to the task. Instead of washing, it ends up soaking up the liquid of foods and redistributes it elsewhere. Plus it’s not very good at scrubbing burnt bits off, either.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
honolulumagazine.com | Stacie Denetsosie |Jessica Machado |Kai Gaspar |Jami Nakamura Lin
Six beloved local authors share the unforgettable stories they found this year. We love hearing what our local authors are reading. Following up on our roundup of books that left a big impression on da Shop staff in 2023, we had a blast chatting with some of our favorite Hawai‘i writers to learn about the books that dazzled, delighted and left a profound impression on their reading lives.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Jami Nakamura Lin
The Night Parade, a procession of supernatural figures of Japanese lore and mythology, has been the subject of visual art and storytelling for centuries. The yōkai --- characters like Oni-Baba, Amabie, Baku and others --- exist in the liminal spaces between the sacred and the mundane, the living and the dead, order and chaos. They point both toward and away from the complexities of the human condition.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
womenandchildrenfirst.com | Jami Nakamura Lin
$30.00 On Our Shelves Recently 28 on hand, (memoirs) A Most Anticipated Book by Poets & Writers • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Los Angeles Times • The Millions • Library Journal • Book Riot • Debutiful • and many more! In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo—the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons—to shift the cultural narrative...
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Jami Nakamura Lin
Are these the only two stories? The one, where you defeat your monster, and the other, where you succumb to it? Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, much of her adolescence was marked by periods of extreme rage and an array of psychiatric treatments, and her relationships suffered as a result, especially as her father’s cancer grasped hold of their family.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Dylan B Jones |Jami Nakamura Lin |Rebecca Boyle |Mary Beard
Eric Schwitzgebel. Princeton Univ, $32 (360p) ISBN 978-0-691-21567-9UC Riverside philosophy professor Schwitzgebel (A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures) explores a question at least as old as Descartes (“Cogito ergo sum”) in this stimulating treatise. As the author sees it, the world is “deeply... weird to its core,” not least because humans are unable to grasp the nature of perception itself.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Dylan B Jones |Jami Nakamura Lin |Rebecca Boyle |Mary Beard
Karen Tongson. New York Univ, $19.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4798-4651-1Tongson (Why Karen Carpenter Matters), a gender and sexuality studies professor at the University of Southern California, takes a discerning look at the ambivalence queer viewers feel watching such mainstream family-centric TV shows as Parenthood and This Is Us. These sitcoms and dramas, she suggests, constitute “normporn,” or “a subgenre of television that...
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Blake Butler |Dylan Jones |Jami Nakamura Lin |Rebecca Boyle
This shattering memoir from novelist Blake (Alice Knott) recounts his relationship with poet and memoirist Molly Brodak, who died by suicide in 2020, when she was 39. Painting the couple’s courtship and marriage as both turbulent and tender, Butler opens the account after Brodak’s death, then returns to their early meetings and catalogs their relationship milestones.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Dylan B Jones |Jami Nakamura Lin |Rebecca Boyle |Mary Beard
Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin. Hachette, $39 (336p) ISBN 978-0-306-83036-5Citizen activists stoutly resist an encroaching tyranny in this powerful and moving debut from journalists Mahtani and McLaughlin.
