Cathy Park Hong discusses her New York Times best selling book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, a collection of  honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original essays that explore Asian American consciousness. Time Magazine featured Minor Feelings as one of the best books of 2020, referring to Hong as “an energetic and necessary voice in the dialogue surrounding racism in the U.S.”

Hong is the poetry editor of the New Republic and is a full professor at Rutgers-Newark University. 

She will be in conversation with Chicago journalist Monica Eng, currently a reporter for Axios. Ms. Eng worked at Chicago's WBEZ-AM for eight years as the station's "Curious City" reporter, and spent 16 years as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

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Presented in partnership with multiple Chicago-area libraries. Books can be purchased from our independent bookselling partners: Anderson's Bookshop, Book Bin, The Book Stall, and Barbara's Bookstore.

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