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Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at New York University. In her most recent book, The Beautiful Generation, Tu explores the rise of Asian Americans in high fashion and what ramifications it has for the fashion industry as a whole. She draws on conversations with design students, fashion curators, and fashion publicists; interviews with …

By Jenny Chen Andrew Lam, editor-in-chief of New America Media, a nonprofit organization that advocates 3,000 ethnic news organizations in the United States, was awarded the PEN/Oakland Award for his fictional collection of short stories Birds of Paradise Lost. The book is based on the Vietnamese refugee experience. Maxine Hong Kingston wrote about Lam: “…bask in his love of language, …

 Rosemary Lauer is a local philanthropist and founder of the non-profit Devotion to Children. She recently penned a book with Scott Beller titled Beggars or Angels about her unique experience arriving to the United States from her war-torn country, Vietnam. Below is an excerpt from her book: Chapter 1    Everything Happens for a Reason Growing up in Vietnam, I knew …