Lydia Lowe

Sep 17, 2023 | sampan.org | Christopher John Stephens |Anqi Zhang |Lydia Lowe

The balance between creating a trendy world in Fantasy novels or contemporary Young Adult (YA) fiction and managing to say something that matters can be tricky. More often than not, genre fiction asks only that the writer provide strictly what their audience wants, nothing more and nothing less. In Livia Blackburne’s sweet new YA novel Clementine and Danny Save the World (and Each Other) that balance is front and center. Blackburne gives us Clementine Chan and Danny Mok.

May 27, 2023 | sampan.org | Lydia Lowe |Aili Liu

Boston’s first Urban Renewal Project, bulldozing the New York Streets neighborhood, resulted in  decades of injustice for Chinatown and other working class neighborhoods, particularly communities of color and immigrants.