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Nov 13, 2024 | 
americanlibrariesmagazine.org | Kaveh Akbar |Percival L. Everett |Jiaming Tang |Kevin Fedarko
The American Library Association (ALA) announced on November 12 the six books shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Established in 2012, the awards honor the previous year’s best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the US.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jiaming Tang |Shawn Hoo
Cinema Love By Jiaming TangFiction/John Murray Press/Hardback/$44.50/304 pages/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3Kp9voY)3 starsA brick hurled at a gay bar in New York City in 1969 during the Stonewall riots is often cited as the impetus for America’s gay liberation movement. Cinema Love, depicting an arson plot at a workers’ cinema for “sissy” men in 1980s rural Fuzhou, stages a similar protest. Its aftermath, however, is bloodshed and exodus.
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May 4, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Jiaming Tang |Linwood Barclay |Kirk Goldsberry |Elise Juska
The book is in stores on Tuesday, May 7th from Dutton. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/43TWJaXFor over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers’ Cinema: a theater where gay men cruised for love.
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May 4, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Nina St. Pierre |Jiaming Tang
The book is in stores on Tuesday, May 7th form Dutton. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3xowHR0Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on, her mother’s pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment.
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May 4, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Jiaming Tang |Nina St. Pierre |Janet Skeslien Charles
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild destroyed French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen—children’s libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians.
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May 4, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Jiaming Tang |Nina St. Pierre
The book is in stores on Tuesday, May 7th from Atria. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3Ogi1JuIn Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone—ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk—has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty.
But most is not all.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Julia Phillips |Jiaming Tang |Natalie Sue |Joseph Andras
Claire Lombardo. Doubleday, $30 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-54955-4Lombardo (The Most Fun We Ever Had) returns with the pitch-perfect tale of a complicated friendship and the fallout from an extramarital affair. Julia Ames, 57, is a married mother of two living in a Chicago suburb.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Taylor Brown |Julia Phillips |Jiaming Tang |Natalie Sue
Taylor Brown. St. Martin’s, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-32933-2West Virginia coalminers stage a violent uprising in this sobering tale from Brown (The Wingwalkers). In May 1920, miners in Mingo County, W.Va., are evicted from their company-owned homes in retaliation for joining the United Mine Workers of America. Matewan police chief “Smilin’” Sid Hatfield, angered at the company’s brazen extralegal operation, guns down the private detective in charge of the evictions.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ying Wang |Yizhuo Wang |Jiaming Tang |Rui Li
1 INTRODUCTION Restricted repetitive behaviors (RRBs) are common behaviors across species and refer to a series of meaningless and repeated behaviors, including stereotyped body movements, narrow and restricted interests, repeated self-injuries, repetitive motion of speech and cognitive inflexibility.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
arxiv.org | Jiaming Tang |Haotian Tang |Shang Yang |Wei-Ming Chen
[Submitted on 1 Jun 2023 ( v1 ), last revised 23 Apr 2024 (this version, v4)] Title:AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression and Acceleration View a PDF of the paper titled AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression and Acceleration, by Ji Lin and 9 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) have fundamentally transformed the capabilities of numerous applications, from natural language processing to more intricate...
