Podcast appearances and mentions of Elaine Castillo

Data from Gallup and the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that Americans are reading fewer books and spending less time reading than ever.There's been reporting on college kids struggling to finish longer texts. And last month, in a viral post, one user lamented their loss of concentration for reading, which led to a larger online discourse about how to approach books again.Brittany is joined by Elaine Castillo, author of the book How to Read Now, and Abdullah Shihipar, Research Associate at the People, Place and Health collective at Brown University, to get into why reading books is on the decline, the battle for our attention, and what people can do to get their reading grooves back. Support public media and receive ad-free listening & bonus. Join NPR+ today.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Abby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Joseph Earl Thomas, author of the 2023 memoir Sink and a new novel, God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. Set over the course of a single, chaotic day in a North Philadelphia hospital, Thomas' novel unfolds across a multiplicity of geographies and timelines, and weaves together a dense network of human attachments in all their pleasures and pains. The conversation ranges widely as Abby, Patrick, and Joseph discuss what “trauma” means in popular discourse, literary criticism, and real-world trauma centers; the pleasures of food, video games, and genre expectations; Freud, the family, and authentic human connections sustained online; liberal narratives of universality and the dignity of work; the rhetoric of “boundaries”; and living and working through familial relationships that defy neat categorization and challenge us at every turn.Key texts cited in the episode:Elaine Castillo, How To Read NowOmari Akil, “Warning: Playing Pokémon GO is a Death Sentence if You are a Black Man, “ available at https://medium.com/dayone-a-new-perspective/warning-pokemon-go-is-a-death-sentence-if-you-are-a-black-man-acacb4bdae7fParul Sehgal, “The Tyranny of the Tale,” available at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/seduced-by-story-peter-brooks-bewitching-the-modern-mind-christian-salmon-the-story-paradox-jonathan-gottschall-book-reviewSehgal, “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” available at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/the-case-against-the-trauma-plot Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-century America Mat Johnson, Pym Gayl Jones, Mosquito  Patrick Jagoda, “On Difficulty in Video Games,” available at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/699585 Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! 484 775-0107A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappinessTwitter: @UnhappinessPodInstagram: @OrdinaryUnhappinessPatreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessTheme song:Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxOProvided by Fruits Music

"We're running fast on streets with cracks in 'em." How do you grow older gracefully? Can you preserve a bit of childhood as adulthood looms? Can you ever run with childlike abandon as an adult? Does progress always come at a cost?In "Ms. Clavel," the thoughtful waltz from her new album, Wake, singer-songwriter Katherine Paterson poses these questions and more through the lens of a friendly childhood figure. Using literary allusions to Madeline, a scalar piano line that skips like water over stones, and the repetition of a familiar line--"That's all there is; there isn't anymore"--Katherine evokes the passing of time with a melodic simplicity that would make Joni Mitchell proud.In this episode, Emmeline and Katherine chat about growing older, holding space for sadness, how one marks the passing of time, and the challenge of painting portraits of the people we become when we're not looking (to borrow a phrase from Elaine Castillo). They also talk about their mutual love for Sondheim and the healing power of music. For more information about Katherine Paterson, or to follow her musical journey, visit her official website. You can also pre-save Wake on Spotify. 

City Lights LIVE and Litquake celebrate the final issue of John Freeman's distinguished journal “Freeman's: Conclusions,” published by Grove Atlantic, with John Freeman, joined by Jaime Cortez, Elaine Castillo, and Oscar Villaon. Over the course of ten years, “Freeman's" has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also spotlighting brilliant writers working in English, from Tommy Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last issue, this unique literary project ponders all the ways of reaching a fitting conclusion. For Sayaka Murata, keeping up with the comings and goings of fashion and its changing emotional landscapes can mean being left behind, and in her poem “Amenorrhea,” Julia Alvarez experiences the end of the line as menopause takes hold. Yet sometimes an end is merely a beginning, as Barry Lopez meditates while walking through the snowy Oregonian landscapes. While Chinelo Okparanta's story “Fatu” confronts the end of a relationship under the specter of new life, other writers look towards aging as an opportunity for rebirth, such as Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, who takes on the role of being her own elder, comforting herself in the ways that her grandmother used to. Finally, in his comic story “Everyone at Dinner Has a Max von Sydow Story,” Dave Eggers suggests that sometimes stories don't have neat or clean endings—that sometimes the middle is enough. John Freeman is the founder of the literary annual “Freeman's” and the author and editor of ten books, including “Dictionary of the Undoing,” “The Park,” “Tales of Two Planets,” “The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story,” and, with Tracy K. Smith, “There's a Revolution Outside,” “My Love”. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Orion, and been translated into over twenty languages. The former editor of Granta, he lives in New York City, where he teaches writing at NYU and is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include “Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children,” “No Straight Lines,” a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics, “Street Art San Francisco,” and “Infinite Cities,” an experimental atlas of San Francisco. He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Sexile” for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003. “Gordo” is Jaime's debut collection of short stories, and was published by Grove Atlantic to national acclaim in 2021. Jaime received his BA in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MFA from UC Berkeley. Elaine Castillo, named one of “30 of the planet's most exciting young people” by the Financial Times, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut novel “America Is Not the Heart” was named one of the best books of 2018 and has been nominated for the Elle Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, the Aspen Words Prize, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Book Award, and the California Book Award. Her essay collection “How To Read Now” was published to wide acclaim in July 2022, and was chosen as the September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club, among others. Her latest longform essay on grief, dog rescue and the politics of dog training is forthcoming this fall from Scribd. She is currently working on her second novel, to be published in late 2024/early 2025. Oscar Villalon is the editor of “ZYZZYVA." His work has been published in The Believer, Freeman's, VQR, Stranger's Guide, Alta, and many other publications. He lives with his wife and son in San Francisco. You can purchase copies of “Freeman's: Conclusions” at https://citylights.com/freemans-conclusions/ This event is made possible with the support of the City Lights Foundation. To learn more visit: https://citylights.com/foundation/

Join Sabrina as she speaks with Rachel Erskine, an ethical storytelling advisor and co-chair of the BOND People in the Pictures Working group, and they discuss the importance of ethical storytelling and fundraising in the third-sector.Resources for this episode:Practical guidance The Dignified Storytelling project (2022) Guidelines for ethical communications around child marriage: Principles, best practice and tools, Jess Crombie for Girls Not Brides (2022) How to Write About Africa in 8 Steps: An ethical storytelling handbook, Rebecca Pointer for Africa No Filter (2021) Putting the people in the pictures first: Ethical guidelines for the collection and use of content, ‘People in the Pictures' working group for Bond (2019) A Practical Guide For Communicating Global Justice & Solidarity: An alternative to the language of development, aid and charity, Framing Matters for Health Poverty Action (2019) Research Who Owns the Story? Live financial testing of charity vs participant led storytelling in fundraising, Jess Crombie and David Girling (2022) Time to Decolonise Aid: Insights and lessons from a global consultation, Peace Direct and partners (2021) The People in the Pictures: Vital perspectives on Save the Children's image making, Jess Crombie and Siobhan Warrington for Save the Children (2017) Blogs Introducing the first free library [of] non-stigmatising images of people experiencing homelessness, Centre for Homelessness Impact (2023) Seeing and Being Development's ‘Other': Representations of Africa and Diaspora Audiences, Dr Edward Ademolu for the London School of Economics (2018) Why I Hate The Word “Beneficiaries”, Pete Vowles for BRIGHT Magazine (2018) Podcasts It's a Continent The Photo Ethics Podcast Books How to Read Now, by Elaine Castillo (2022) Africa Is Not A Country, by Dipo Faloyin (2022) Photography: Race, Rights and Representation, by Mark Sealy (2022) And finally, Fairpicture, who produce lots of useful resources and run free, open events.

Step into the world of family entrepreneurship with Isaac and Elaine Castillo, a dynamic couple who embarked on a journey of business success together. Watch as they share their inspiring stories, from web development to outdoor events, and how their unwavering focus on exceptional customer service earned them rave reviews. Get ready to be moved by their dedication to making a difference in people's lives, as they recount a heartwarming story of a soldier's homecoming made truly special. Learn the secrets to their thriving businesses, from diversification and planning to finding core services driving multiple streams of income. Discover the power of family balance, perseverance, and the importance of having backup plans. Join us for this insightful and heartwarming YouTube video celebrating the power of entrepreneurship and customer service to create extraordinary experiences. ▶ Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/dzqVGV Host: ✅ Marc Ebinger, Crükus Marketing Agency

welcome back to the best i've ever read podcast with liv & kim! this week, we get into another chatty episode where we discuss our summer plans, along with our thoughts on the books featured on Goodreads Books to Suit Your Summer Reading Mood reading list. the earth is on fire, but our takes on some of the most hyped books of 2023 might be even hotter... kim discusses seeing familiar faces in seville, and a burger festival gone wrong. liv gets caught up on crocheting and the newest season of selling sunset. we get nostalgic about the old days before your icloud storage was always full with random screen shots. most notable books mentioned in this episode: The Adult by Bronwyn Fischer  We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling  Old Enough by Hailey Jacobson Summer Reading by Jen McInley The Celebrants by Steven Rowley My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfengh Lustre by Raven Lelani No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood The Guest by Emma Cline Happy Place by Emily Henry Spare by Prince Harry Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel YN by Esther Yi The Villa by Rachel Hawkins How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo  other media mentioned: selling sunset - on netflix talk lit get hit podcast i read prince harrys book so you dont have to - uncarley on youtube Delaney Rowe on TikTok (kim compares her tiktoks to emily henry characters)

//SPOILERS FOR LONG DIVISION//Mississippi author Kiese Laymon joins us for our season finale. We discuss the revised version of his novel Long Division, explore themes of freedom, language, and timelessness, and talk about creating art separate from the white imagination.Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, named a notable book of 2021 by the New York Times critics. Laymon's bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. Laymon is at work on the books, Good God, and City Summer, Country Summer, and a number of other film and television projects. He is the founder of “The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative,” a program based out of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, aimed at aiding young people in Jackson get more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing on their on their own terms, in their own communities. Kiese Laymon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.RESOURCES Long Division by Kiese Laymon "We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing" by Elaine Castillo. LitHub.BOOKSHOPhttps://bookshop.org/shop/hoodooplantmamasBE A PATRON!https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.

On this week's episode, Francine sits down with author Sunisa Manning to unpack her debut novel A Good True Thai (link) which is a historical fiction set in Thailand during the 1970s student radicalization and revolution. Her book was a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize for Southeast Asian writers. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on censorship in Thailand, Sunisa's mixed-race experiences, and her struggles in resolving her Thai and American identity! Lightning Round: 03:10 Research and lecture summary: 05:38 Advice for researchers and recommendations: 33:30 Manning's Top Recommendations: Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (link) How to Read Now: Essays by Elaine Castillo (link)   The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here. 

Elaine Castillo, one of Financial Times' “30 of the Planet's Most Exciting Young People,” joins Zibby to discuss her latest book of essays, How to Read Now. The two talk about the circumstances and events that inspired Elaine to begin writing these essays, as well as the significance literature holds in her and her parents' lives. Elaine also tells Zibby about her newfound love for astrology, why she included painful stories about the trauma and discrimination her family has faced, and what she's learning from reading books at a slower pace.Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3DGlb48Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3W5pE7TSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“White supremacy makes for terrible readers” says today's guest Elaine Castillo, arguing that we are all overeducated in a set of fundamentally terrible reading techniques, ones that impoverish us as readers and thinkers, ones that diminish the availability of meaning and meaningfulness in our lives. When Castillo says “read,” and suggests that how we read […] The post Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now appeared first on Tin House.

Our guest, Elaine Castillo, is the author of the newly released book "How to Read Now: Essays," which attempts to observe American books and movies through a BIPOC lens. Elaine takes a close look at TV shows like "The Watchmen" and writings from Joan Didion to explore the politics of reading and how to read with intent.  Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she graduated from UC Berkeley and obtained her MA in Creative Life and Writing at the University of London, Elaine is a second-generation Filipino American. Her parents migrated from the Philippines in the 70s during the Marcos dictatorship, a story that inspired her 2018 debut novel, "America is NOT the Heart." Praised by NPR, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others, Castillo's book follows Hero, a Filipino immigrant born to an established family and later radicalized during the Marcos Regime, and her escape to the Bay Area after being captured and tortured by the dictatorship.  Join the conversation: Instagram @immigrantlypod | Twitter @immigrantly_pod |  Please share the love and leave us a review to help more people find us! Host & Executive Producer: Saadia Khan I Content Writer: Ashley Lanuza & Saadia Khan I Editorial Review: Yudi Li I Sound Designer & Editor: Manni Simon I Immigrantly Theme Music: Evan Ray Suzuki I Other Music: Epidemic Sounds

Elaine Castillo, named one of "30 of the Planet's Most Exciting Young People" by the Financial Times, was born and raised in the Bay Area. Her debut novel, America Is Not the Heart, was a finalist for numerous prizes including the Elle Big Book Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her new essay collection is called How To Read Now and I barely know where to start. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll explore books combating prejudice from a variety of genres. Everything from changing perceptions to dystopian futures is on the plate. Get ready to discover courageous, defiant characters who take their lives into their own hands. Today's selections are -The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho, You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen, How to Find What You're Not Looking For by Veera Hiranandani, America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo, Internment, Hollow Fires, and Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed, Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones, and A Heart In the Body In the World by Deb Caletti!

Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton dive into the short stories of the acclaimed new collection A Calm & Normal Heart, with its author, Chelsea T. Hicks.  Hicks is a member of the Osage Nation, and the collection, published in June 2022 by Unnamed Press, also incorporates her ancestral language of Wazhazhe ie (which translates to “Osage talk”). The collection opens with a poem in the orthography, along with the Latinized spelling and English translation. Read the full episode transcript. Support Future Episodes: Become a Member in Apple Podcasts or at ursastory.com/join. About Chelsea T. Hicks Chelsea T. Hicks is a model, author and current Tulsa Artist Fellow. She is a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation 2021 LIFT Awardee and her writing has been published in McSweeney's, Yellow Medicine Review, the LA Review of Books, Indian Country Today, The Believer, The Audacity, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is a past Writing By Writers Fellow, a 2016 Wah-Zha-Zhi Woman Artist featured by the Osage Nation Museum, and a 2020 finalist for the Eliza So Fellowship for Native American women writers.  Her advocacy work has included recruiting with the Virginia Indian Pre-College Outreach Initiative (VIP-COI), Northern and Southern California Osage diaspora groups, and heritage language creative writing and revitalization workshops. She authored poetry for the sound art collection Onomatopoeias For Wrangell-St. Elias, funded by the Double Hoo Grant at the University of Virginia, where she was awarded the Peter & Phyllis Pruden scholarship for excellence in the English major as well as the University Achievement Award (2008-2012). The Ford Foundation awarded her a 2021 honorable mention for promotion of Indigenous-language creative writing. She is planning an Indigenous language creative writing Conference for November 2022 in Tulsa, funded by an Interchange art grant.  Episode Links and Reading List:  A Calm & Normal Heart (2022) Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work (Lit Hub) Osage writing system and orthography There There, by Tommy Orange (2019) Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (1978) Night of the Living Rez, by Morgan Talty (2022) America Is Not the Heart, by Elaine Castillo (2019) Men We Reaped: A Memoir, by Jesmyn Ward (2014) Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (2019) Milk Blood Heat, by Dantiel W. Moniz (2021) Nobody's Magic, by Destiny O. Birdsong (2022) You Don't Know Us Negroes, by Zora Neale Hurston More from Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton:  The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, by Deesha Philyaw The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, by Dawnie Walton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://ursastory.com/join

Hello and welcome to Episode Fifty of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I'm your host, Hannah! If you enjoy the podcast subscribe, tell a friend, or write us a review! The English Language Transcript can be found below But as always we start with Reader's Advisory! The Reader's Advisory for Episode Fifty is Em by Kim Thúy. If you like the sound of Em you should also check out: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen, America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo, and Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian. Bonus segment my personal favorite Goodreads list Em is on is REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer Than 1,000 Ratings) Happy Reading Everyone Today's Library Tidbit is a history tidbit! Specifically, the history of and highlighting modern day celebration of Pride. Pride is the celebration and recognition of LGBTQIA people and rights. It began in New York City but has since spread across the globe. In areas of the world where there are more LGBTQIA social acceptance and rights Pride tends to be a celebration. In areas of the world where there are few or no LGBTQIA social acceptance and rights Pride is protest. This is a simplification as of course there will always be some celebrating when LGBTQIA people gather together and there will always be protest when LGBTQIA people gather together. LGBTQIA people are still fighting for basic human rights everywhere. The most famous initiating event for Pride was the Stonewall Uprising. While there had been protests in Chicago and California prior to June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Uprising is the protest that is gained the most publicity and sparked the most change. LGBTQIA people have faced a great deal of discrimination throughout modern history. For one example, in the 1960s everyone had to be wearing at least 3 articles of clothing of their assumed, by police, gender and if the police decided that they were not they were arrested and jailed. Just a reminder, clothing does not have a gender, so this was used to harass and imprison everyone in the LGBTQIA community at will. The Stonewall Inn was a popular bar for the LGBTQIA community in New York. The Inn was run by the mafia who did not particularly care who used the space as long as they paid. It had no running water and was in general not in great shape. It was routinely raided by the police looking to harass and imprison people for being gay or trans or just not the right sort. On June 28th 1969, the police raided once again, but this time something different happened. As people were being loaded into police wagons a woman yelled to the standing crowd “Why don't you guys do something?” and so they did. The next 3 days the LGBTQIA community of New York protested against the hate crimes and police brutality they had been facing for their entire lives. But what started as loosely organized protesting soon coalesced into a movement and organized activism. Over the next few years groups formed to fight in a more organized way for gay rights in society and politics. One year after the Stonewall Uprising one of these groups through what was called the Christopher Street Liberation Day march. Christopher being the street the Stonewall Inn is on. Simultaneously there were Gay Pride marches happening in Los Angeles and Chicago that year as well. Since then every year Gay Pride marches have grown and spread from across the US to across the globe. Locally, St Pete Pride is the largest of the Pride gatherings. The event started in 2003 after Tampa cancelled their Pride event. What started as a modest parade down Central Ave has grown into a months long celebration with multiple events highlighting different groups of people within the LGBTQIA community. While the Mayor at the time would not sign a proclamation the now current Mayor, and then City Council member, Rick Kriseman, did sign a proclamation for the event. In 2017, the parade route was moved from the Grand Central District to the do...

Amanda and Jenn give some recommendations for AAPI Heritage Month in this week's special themed episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Fill out our listener survey and be entered to win a $50 gift card to the indie bookstore of your choice! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (out in July 2022) Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang (tw: racially motivated violence) IQ by Joe Ide The Verifiers by Jane Pek (cw: discussion of suicide) The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (cw: child abuse) Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (tw: child abuse) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (tw: addiction) Sonali Dev's The Rajes series (cw: lots of trauma and angst) Gearbreakers & Godslayers (out June 28) by Zoe Hana Mikuta Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport(cw: violence against women and children incl. rape and abuse, racial slurs, violent racism, and basically everything else you can think of) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Season 4 of the Halo Halo Podcast! In honour of FIlipino American History Month Jezzie and Sigi discuss Filipino American author Elaine Castillo's America is Not the Heart. Jezzie recounts the epic intergenerational story of Geronima (Hero) de Vera who leaves the Philippines after being disowned by her wealthy parents and dropping out of medical school. Hero's story is an example of one expression of being Filipina in the Diaspora which leads to a discussion on who is today's Filipino/a/x in relation to brave new identities and brave new worlds. Jezzie shares that today's Filipino/a/x is moving beyond our original values (still retaining them) but having the courage to be in an ever uncertain world. There is a movement beyond immigration stories that speak of struggles to immigrate and build wealth. Today's Filipino/a/x are taking up spaces in sports, media, business and politics and clearly taking positive risks and move beyond what the world thinks we truly are! In the mix this week: Ted Lasso The Hustler Dexter: New Blood

Two librarians talk about this month's book, America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo. A book that weaves together the stories of three generations of women from one immigrant family. Stories about community, history, and the shades and movement of our lives.

Amanda and Jenn discuss genre-benders, hopeful visions of the future, overlooked literary fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Feedback The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud and Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (rec’d by Kelly) Questions 1. Hi, I’m Ben, I love the podcast! I wasn’t sure how to ask for a suggestion, so I’m emailing.  I recently read Stuart Turton’s “Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” and “The Devil in the Dark Water” and am trying to find more genre bending books like those. My preferences are pretty open, though I try to stay away from YA. I do love that the aforementioned books involve a complicated mystery, but the mystery aspect isn’t as important as the genre blending. Thank you for your help! P.s. your podcast has helped open my mind with the variety of books that y’all discuss, thanks for that.  -Ben 2. It’s been a rough year (for everyone), and I am struggling to really see the light at the end of the tunnel. I’m looking for a read without too much trauma on the page that imagines a better future/society. That’s pretty open-ended, but I enjoy so much of what gets recommended on the show that I trust y’all to run with it! Thank you for all you do; you’re getting me through all this shit.  -Diana 3. Hello! On your most recent episode (the final one in 2020), one or both of you mentioned reading more nonfiction books than usual this year. I haven’t gotten into nonfiction much, but would like to read more of it. So I was wondering – what were your favorite nonfiction books that you read in 2020? Thanks! Love the show! -Kathleen 4. Happy Holidays from Indonesia

Does the written word really have the power to change things? How do you make a good argument in writing? Does the form of the essay lend itself particularly well to politics? Join us as we talk to the writer Otegha Uwagba about her brilliant essay Whites, a clear sighted, powerful comment on race in our society which examines her feelings in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, and the failures of white allyship. Picking up from our discussion of the form of the essay with Brian Dillon in 2017, we’ll be exploring the strengths and limitations of the form and talking about our favourite political essayists, from George Orwell to James Baldwin to Rebecca Solnit, plus all the usual recommendations. Our recommended political essays: Octavia: Daddy Issues by Katherine Angel https://peninsulapress.co.uk/product/daddy-issues Carrie: On Witness and Repair by Jesmyn Ward https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/jesmyn-ward-on-husbands-death-and-grief-during-covid General Recommendations: Octavia: A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/10378/a-very-easy-death-by-simone-de-beauvoir/ Otegha: America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549486/america-is-not-the-heart-by-elaine-castillo/ Carrie: Intimations by Zadie Smith https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321/321775/intimations/9780241492383.html Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction

October's book club discussion is here! This episode contains book spoilers. Discussion begins at 33:00. This week we're talking about 'America Is Not the Heart' by Elaine Castillo, a novel about a queer woman refugee from the Philippines and her family in the United States... which only scratches the surface of this beautifully dense story. But before we get into it, we catch up on what we've been playing and thinking about. Playing: 'Raji: An Ancient Epic' and culture in video games Nostalgic gaming with 'Final Fantasy X', 'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2', and 'Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time' 'Concrete Genie' and how games can teach empathy Watching & Thinking About: Competition television: 'Dancing with the Stars', 'The Masked Singer', and 'Project Runway' 'Emily in Paris' and problematic faves 'Kim's Convenience' Listener feedback: Gaming Starter Kits Viral videos: Kicking Robin out of the salon Find us on Twitter: @NovelGamingPod Send us an e-mail: novelgamingpodcast@gmail.com Logo by: Katie! Theme song: "Bit Bossa" by Azureflux

We're back to chatting about video games! This time we're putting together our "gaming starter packs," a set of five games that show off our gamer personalities. Before we dive in, we check in on what we're reading, watching, and thinking about. Reading: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo (our next book club selection) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Watching & Thinking About: iAmMosho & DJ Ravioli Schitt's Creek Pen15 What We Do In the Shadows Breonna Taylor's killing at the hands of police Find us on Twitter: @NovelGamingPod Send us an e-mail: novelgamingpodcast@gmail.com Logo by: Katie! Theme song: "Bit Bossa" by Azureflux

On this weeks episode Rai speaks to poet Rachel Long on her debut poetry collection - My Darling from the Lions. To Kill a Mockingbird, W.B Yeats and Elaine Castillo also make the discussion on this weeks poetry bonanza.

Welcome to the first episode of Titas and Tomes! We review Elaine Castillo's America is not the Heart–a book that the three of us, and the Filipino diaspora, can relate to: fitting in to a place where you have to carve space to belong. We discuss the book, share common Filipino and Filipino-American stereotypes, and trade stories as second-generation immigrants. "Pilipino ka ba?" We talk about the characters we see in real life and give an ode to Paz. The shades of Paz–the very hardworking woman who's trying to be glamorous–are reflected in our communities, our families and in moms. This family saga follows the de Vera women as they navigate their lives in Milpitas. Ronnie's mysterious cousin, Hero, shows up at her door in Milpitas from the Philippines. Hero's transition to her new life in Milpitas is not easy, but the characters around her–pushy strangers and distant relatives–become her fiercest family. Ronnie, Paz's dream girl, is just trying to survive her eighth birthday and learn how to navigate being American and being Filipino. Ronnie's mom, Paz, is all about sacrifice and hard work–working long shifts at the hospital to support her extended family and realize her immigrant dream.

Eureka! We did it! From this year’s 20th Litquake festival, we present some of our favorite Bay Area authors reading from THEIR favorite Californian wordsmiths live at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. Listen to this festival kick off with a raucous night of readings by Charlie Jane Anders, Natalie Baszile, Elaine Castillo, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Daniel Handler, Adam Johnson, Chang-rae Lee, Beth Lisick, Ishmael Reed, and Tobias Wolff, presenting from the works of writers who inspired them -- from Dashiell Hammett to Daniel Alarcón. Hosted by Isaac Fitzgerald, with live music from the Patrick Wolff Quartet and a special appearance by Karl the Fog. It’s a literary overload you don’t want to skip.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge, Olafur Eliasson at the Tate, Summer reading list, and guest Tim Little of Grenson shoes. Tim talks about his passion for English shoes, how he escaped a life of accountancy, and the importance of a brand. Theatre: A Midsummer Nights Dream - https://bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/a-midsummer-nights-dream/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_rvc_pDY4wIVCbTtCh3e2AYIEAAYASAAEgJddvD_BwE Books: Fleishman is in trouble by Taffy Brodesser Akner - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573460/fleishman-is-in-trouble-by-taffy-brodesser-akner/9780525510871/ Three Women by Lisa Taddeo - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Three-Women/Lisa-Taddeo/9781451642292 Big Sky by Kate Atkinson - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/108/1087462/big-sky/9780857526106.html America is not the Heart by Elaine Castillo - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549486/america-is-not-the-heart-by-elaine-castillo/9780735222427/ TV: Gameface - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/gameface Big Little Lies - https://www.hbo.com/big-little-lies I am Nicola - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/i-am Podcast/Radio: How to Fail by Elizabeth Day - https://howtofail.podbean.com Radio 4 Bookclub - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s5sf Exhibitions: Olafur Eliasson, Tate Modern - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/olafur-eliasson Faith Ringgold, Serpentine - https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/faith-ringgold Grenson Shoes - https://www.grenson.com/uk/ Levis - https://www.levi.com/GB Universal Works - universal works Zara - https://www.zara.com Ganni - https://www.ganni.com Isabel Marant - https://www.isabelmarant.com APC - https://www.apc.fr

Everyone knows bisexual people aren’t real and don’t exist, so for someone who isn’t real and whose existence is a myth, Elaine has nevertheless seen some bullshit. Elaine Castillo was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Comparative Literature. She is a Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation Fellow, and her writing can be found in Freeman’s, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Taste Magazine, Bon Appetit, Electric Literature and elsewhere. Her short film, A Mukbang, was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space. America Is Not the Heart is her first novel. Queerstories is an LGBTQIA+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The new Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff, insomnia rant and photos of my dog Frank follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.

Intervista alla scrittrice americana di origini filippine Elaine Castillo per il suo primo romanzo L'America non è Casa, edizioni Solferino. (prima parte)

Intervista alla scrittrice americana di origini filippine Elaine Castillo per il suo primo romanzo L'America non è Casa, edizioni Solferino. (prima parte)

The Filipino poet and labour organiser Carlos Bulosan, whose family immigrated to America in the Great Depression, entitled his autobiographic novel America Is in the Heart. Elaine Castillo’s fine debut novel “America Is Not the Heart” is a portrait of Filipino diaspora, specifically the migration of three-generations of women to San Francisco’s Bay area – the not so picturesque part. Tender and funny, and marked by a kind of declamatory vernacular (and a smattering of the native Philippine languages of Tagalog, Ilocano and Pangasinan), Castillo ranges across civil strife and torture, social inequity, mystery, romance, and bisexuality. She joins Kiran Dass in conversation.

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspodThanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support.Papercuts: An Auckland Writers Festival Report. A VERY SPECIAL podcast, where we say the words VERY SPECIAL many times. Papercuts report from the ground at the Auckland Writers Festival 2019, where a record breaking 82,000 seats were filled over seven days of literary goodness.Jenna, Louisa & Kiran interview Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize winner Dame Fiona Kidman, Pulitzer Prize winning Andrew Sean Greer and the incredible and probably soon-to-be prize winning Elaine Castillo.We also break down the Ockham Book Awards, the Festival Gala, Douglas Coupland, Literally Lorne, Kamila Shamsie, Chessie Henry, Jill Abramson, Alexander Chee, Shayne Carter, Carla Guelfenbein, we attend two book launches and drink a lot of wine. Thank you to Anne & the Auckland Writers Festival team for having us, 2019 Voyager Media Awards Website of the Year - The Spinoff and of course, The Mātātuhi Foundation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Golda Sargento (l) with Author Elaine Castillo (r) Welcome to 2019! To kick off the year, we have a conversation with the author of one of the most exciting books of 2018, Elaine Castillo, who released her debut novel, America is Not the Heart. The book follows a medic in the Marcos Era New People's Army who eventually makes it to the Bay Area suburb of Milpitas. She lives with her mixed-immigration-status family, as a queer, undocumented child care provider. A Spotify playlist Elaine created with music from the '90s that inspired her novel can be heard by following the link. Elaine is in conversation with Golda Sargento, co-owner of Arkipelago Books, KPFA graduate apprentice, and resident artist at Bindlestiff Studio.  This reading is part of a series between Eastwind Books and Oakland Asian Cultural Center. For upcoming events, check out their Facebook page.   The post APEX Express – Elaine Castillo and Golda Sargento appeared first on KPFA.

Litquake's "Lit Cast Live" series of events at Bay Area bookstores continues with Elaine Castillo and her debut novel, "America Is Not The Heart". In illuminating the violent political history of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s and the insular immigrant communities that spring up in the suburban United States, Castillo delivers an incisive and powerful story about the promise of the American dream and the unshakable power of the past. This appearance was recorded live at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco. Sponsored by California College of the Arts. ww.facebook.com/litquake  https://twitter.com/Litquake

Off the Books is a show where emerging writers talk about the books that have influenced them. In this episode Elaine Castillo, author of the sexy debut AMERICA IS NOT THE HEART, talks about the unsentimental portrayal of whiteness in LUCY by Jamaica Kincaid; the power of detail in KITCHEN by Banana Yoshimoto; and the great Filipino tragedy of AMERICA IS IN THE HEART by Carlos Bulosan. She reads from the books before discussing to give you a delicious taste of these masterpieces. And to finish - a reading from her own work, which can only be described as the hottest sex scene we’ve ever been privy to. Discover wonderful books old and new and have your literary senses stimulated!

Off the Books is a show where emerging writers talk about the books that have influenced them. In this episode Elaine Castillo, author of the sexy debut AMERICA IS NOT THE HEART, talks about the unsentimental portrayal of whiteness in LUCY by Jamaica Kincaid; the power of detail in KITCHEN by Banana Yoshimoto; and the great Filipino tragedy of AMERICA IS IN THE HEART by Carlos Bulosan. She reads from the books before discussing to give you a delicious taste of these masterpieces. And to finish - a reading from her own work, which can only be described as the hottest sex scene we’ve ever been privy to. Discover wonderful books old and new and have your literary senses stimulated!

It's our third annual Summer Reading Challenge! This year, Frank and Gwen picked America Is Not the Heart, a debut novel by Elaine Castillo, about language and love and revolution and family and the meaning of home—it's about everything, and it's incredible. 

It's time again for our Summer Reading Challenge! In this mini-episode, Frank and Gwen pick a book to dive into together and invite you to read along with them, so place those library holds for a copy of "America Is Not the Heart" by Elaine Castillo. Discussion to air August 9!

Elaine Castillo's debut novel America is Not the Heart is a vibrant and starkly hilarious novel about the De Vera family who flees Marcos-era Philippines in stages for the immigrant suburbs of the Bay Area. Elaine Castillo joins poets Luis H. Francia and Joseph O. Legaspi for a special reading about Filipinx-American history, migration, queerness, and the elusive goal of cracking the American Dream for working-class immigrants. After reading they join author Gina Apostol, author of the Gun Dealer's Daughter, for a conversation about Carlos Bulosan, Filipinx as a synthetic identity, and writing for Asian Americans vs the white establishment.

The Riff Raff chat to Elaine Castillo, author of America is not the Heart about how to identify your narrative voice, creating an authentic depiction of trauma and writing as a bi woman of colour. Music: www.bensound.com

Elaine Castillo broke my brain with something she said on the show. The book she ended up publishing, her debut novel America is not the Heart, was not even close to the same length as the book she wrote. Let me say this again: Elaine Castillo sold her debut novel to a big 5 publisher and then got to spend a year and a half editing it because they believed in the book and wanted Elaine to feel satisfied by the end result.   As someone who has always felt novels got sold only when there might be an errant semi-colon or two floating around, this was nothing short of a revelation. Elaine is incredibly open and forthright in this conversation. I was delighted to really get inside her writing process, how she explored point fo view, and the way the characters came together for her. It was a joy to dive into America is Not the Heart, a gorgeous book that is already making waves with the critics. You're in for a real treat this week. Happy listening!   Show notes with links | This episode sponsored by the Secret Writeaway See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.