Julia Lee

Looking for syllabus recs for a fall u/g class on Asian Americans & Pop Culture. I welcome all suggestions but am interested in: 1) scholarly essays on the study of pop culture; 2) popular lit/nonfiction texts (incl graphic narratives); 3) digital media. I will post the syllabus once I'm done. Ty!

You’re reminding me I need to read more of her work. Mr. Fox is one of my favorites.

Very Recent Works of Asian American Literature.docx Very Recent Works of Asian American Literature (2020-present) originally crowd-sourced on Twitter by Min Hyoung Song @minhyoungsong Julia Lee @juliaxlee.bsky.social 2025 1. Alexandra Chan, In ...

Resource for those teaching or interested in contemp #asianamlit: a crowd-sourced list of recently published works (2020-present), incl but not limited to fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, nonfiction. Look at how much we have to say. #asianamericanliterature #booksky

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Two questions, the 1st speculative, the 2nd fact-finding:
1) Given the success/accolades he achieved in his life, why isn't John Steinbeck more of a presence in 20c Amer lit studies?
2) Is he still taught in secondary school or even college? (I'm GenX & feel like everyone read Of Mice & Men.)

BTS and the Labor of Techno-Orientalism This article makes the case that the discourse around K-pop supergroup BTS and their fans—known as ARMY—marks an intersection between techno-Orientalism, the abstraction and demonization of Asian labo...

This is a new direction for my work, and one that makes me nervous. "BTS & the Labor of Techno-Orientalism" is the first step in a longer work on Asian racialization in the time of COVID. Thank you to the editors/readers at Lateral for their support.

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Watching South Korean citizens revolt against martial law & this woman is a complete badass

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

Same!

17. Lauren Groff, Vaster Wilds

16) Su Tong, Raise the Red Lantern

That one is on my list. Have you also read James? That one wins 2024 for me so far.

When I deleted my Twitter posts, this is the only thing I bothered downloading. #BTS #OT7

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Percival Everett’s James wins the National Book Award for fiction and if you haven’t already this is your reminder to read it because it is an absolute masterpiece.

15. @nicolechung.bsky.social, All You Can Never Know. I read it in one sitting and cried throughout.

14. Agatha Christie, A Pocketful of Rye

13. Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

12. Justin Torres, We the Animals

11. Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy.

10. Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility.

9. Percival Everett, James. An absolute miracle of a novel.

8. Jane Austen, Persuasion. The worst Austen by a mile. A post on my FB showed me this book is not as universally beloved as you would think.

7. Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot. And what a plot.

6. Ina Garten, Be Ready When the Luck Happens

5. Rachel Khong, Real Americans

4. Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life & Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. The level of detail sometimes was mind-numbing (it provided what seemed like a minute-by-minute account of Plath's dating life in high school), but I'd recommend.

3. Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

2. John Guy and Julia Fox, Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage that Shook Europe

1. Colm Toibin, Long Island. This book has the "if even one person said what they felt or wanted, this book wouldn't exist" problem. Nevertheless, I loved it.

I started this on my other socials, but am bringing it here: B/w 7-1-24 & 6-30-25, my goal is to read 40 books that are not related to my research (race & Amer lit, Asian Am lit/culture, & trains). Each book I finish will be posted in its own comment below. I welcome suggestions & conversation!