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Brian Lehrer Show: What the Subway Means to New Yorkers- 4/29/22
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TODAY Show Appearance - 9/8/21
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NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon
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BBC World Service Outlook Interview
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Conversation with Charles Yu- 9/13/21
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Northeastern University Law School Talk- 4/7/21
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Central Synagogue Rosh Hashanah 5782 Drasha- 9/7/21
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Common Reads Talk with Editor and Penguin Random House Education Team
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Inside the Book Introduction for BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Select Print Features & Interviews
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New York Times: I Treasure the Life I Live in the Subway. And I Am Afraid of Losing It.
For the New York Times, I reflect on the vulnerability and connection New Yorkers find in the subway.
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Haper's Bazaar: Awaking from My American Dream
For Harper’s Bazaar, I reflect on the often untold realities of “living the American Dream.”
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Elle UK: "The Thread that Led me back"
For Elle UK’s fashion issue, I retrace my travels through fashion, from being bound by the demands of girlhood to finding self expression in clothing and home in my own body.
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Shondaland Interview
I sat down with Shondaland to discuss my book, the vital role of education, and my relationship to labor.
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Today: "My Mother's Love Language"
For the TODAY Show, I write about my frustrations and peace with my mother’s love language of worry.
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The Cut: "When I feared my father"
For NY Magazine’s “The Cut,” I share my journey from fearing to understanding my father.
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New York Times: Anti-Asian Racism Isn't New
For the New York Times, I examine personal and historical instances of anti-Asian hate in the United States.
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The Forward: Beyond the Four Questions, listen to children asking the unanswerable
For the Forward, I reflect on Passover seder traditions and the important role of questions in our liberation.
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Alma Interview
I sat down with Alma to discuss my book and what it means to be Jewish.
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New York Times: What the Country Needs, on DACA and So Much More
For the New York Times, I write about the legal, political, and social ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold DACA in June 2019.
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JBC Paper Brigade: "Hunger"
For the Jewish Book Council’s journal, I reflect on how my childhood trauma of hunger interacted with my first Yom Kippur fast.
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Washington Post: "Haunted by Hunger Fears Since Childhood, I Finally Stopped Overbuying Food When the Pandemic Hit"
For the Washington Post, I share how my childhood struggles with hunger followed me even into an affluent adulthood.
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New York Times: Excerpt from BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Via the New York Times, read an excerpt of the first few chapters of BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY.
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Alma: "This Rosh Hashanah, Let's Remember the Most Vulnerable Among Us"
For Alma, I share a message about the roots of Judaism for Rosh Hashanah 5782.
