#Watchung Booksellers

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Presentación de “Yo tengo un sueño” en Watchung Booksellers

Mi anhelo de declamar el texto en español respondía a varios motivos, pero este es quizá el más importante: a seis décadas de haber sido pronunciado, “Yo tengo un sueño” mantiene una relevancia abrumadora.

En Watchung Booksellers El lunes pasado —en honor al día de Martin Luther King, Jr. — leí mi traducción de “Yo tengo un sueño”, ese hermoso y emblemático discurso del líder de los derechos civiles. Mi idea original para este encuentro era reunirme con miembros del club de lectura que coordino en la librería, pero al mencionarlo a la coordinadora de eventos de Watchung Booksellers, de ella…

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Where to Find Memento Mori (Updated 9/11/2024)

On August 13, two days before 광복절 (Korean National Liberation Day), my debut novel was released. The book is about Korean-American family, and also about Greek mythology, and I promise this combination makes sense in the end. (For those who are curious, I wrote an uncharacteristically personal guest post for Women's Writers, Women's Books on the topic of what inspired me to write a Eurydice and Orpheus retelling about my Korean grandmother.)

It was surreal to go to a store the other day and see it on a table next to Salman Rushdie and other acclaimed writers. After 13 years of this story existing in some form, I'm so excited that this book is finally out—both because it is a beautiful book that I am proud of and that I hope you enjoy, and also because I would love to stop being my own publicist (it is VERY awkward).

So here is an omnibus post of book-related info that I will keep updated and pinned going forward to finally give the memento mori tag a rest. Below the cut, you will find a running list of indie bookstores and public libraries that I know carry my book. (If you have a New York Public Library card and have 5 minutes, I will love you forever if you would email your local branch to ask them to carry my book, thus fulfilling my lifelong dream of living in the NYPL.)

Also below are a few upcoming events at which I have been invited to speak!

Bookstores by State (as of 9/11/2024)

Search for your local bookstore here!

Arizona

Changing Hands Bookstore (Phoenix and Tempe)

California

Gallery Bookshop (Mendocino)

Timbre Books (Ventura) Sold out for now (but you can still order online)!

Indiana

The Press (Valparaiso)

Iowa

Prairie Lights Books (Iowa City)

Maine

Longfellow Books (Portland) Sold out for now (but you can still order online)!

Massachusetts

Nantucket Book Partners (Nantucket) Sold out for now (but you can still order online)!

Porter Square Books (Cambridge and Boston both back in stock!)

Missouri

Skylark Bookshop (Columbia)

Montana

Chapter One Book Store (Hamilton)

New Hampshire

Water Street Bookstore (Exeter)

New Jersey

Watchung Booksellers (Montclair)

New York

Astoria Bookshop (Queens, 1 signed copy left!)

Book Culture (Signed copies at the 112th St. and Broadway stores; also available at LIC and Pittsford Pittsford has sold out for now!)

Books are Magic (Brooklyn, at both Smith St. and Montague St.)

Market Block Books (Troy) Sold out for now (but you can still order online)!

Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn) Back in stock!

Shakespeare & Co (Manhattan, Lincoln Center has signed copies; Lexington also as copies back in stock)

Yu and Me Books (Manhattan; comes with bonus goodies, see below!)

North Carolina

Quail Ridge Books (Raleigh)

Oregon

Powell's (Burnside, Cedar Hills, and Hawthorne locations)

Rhode Island

Heartleaf Books (Providence)

Vermont

Phoenix Books (Burlington and Essex)

Washington, D.C.

Politics and Prose (at both CT Ave NW and Union Market)

Washington State

Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle)

Wisconsin

Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee)

Libraries (as of 09/10/2024)

Worldcat Listings (Probably the most comprehensive)

Libby (for e-books)

California

Berkeley Public Library

Illinois

Chicago Public Library

Kentucky

Lexington Public Library

Maine

Portland Public Library (On Order)

Michigan

Canton Public Library (On Order)

New York

Greenburgh Public Library (Available)

New York Public Library (Available)

Queens Public Library (Available)

Texas

Harris County Public Library (In Processing)

Virginia

Arlington Public Library (In Processing)

Wisconsin

Whitefish Bay Public Library

Washington State

Seattle Public Library

Online

Bookshop.org (US)

Bookshop.org (UK)

Massive Bookshop (all profits go to community bail funds)

Barnes & Noble

Target

KYOBO 교보문고 (Korea)

Upcoming Events

September 3: Astoria Bookshop in conversation with Maia Lee-Chin for the release of her incredible book Et Cetera

September 22: Narrative Bookshop (Somerville, MA) in conversation with Maia Lee-Chin

September 28: Brooklyn Book Festival for a debut authors panel moderated by THEE Edwidge Danticat

October 17: Fall for the Book Festival in Fairfax, VA for a panel on mythology with Rania Hanna, the amazing author of The Jinn Daughter

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feeling called out as an Aquarius

(and Elaine U. Cho is one as well apparently)

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A Poetry Reading About Time

I will be doing a poetry reading on the theme of "time" on April 29 in Montclair NJ

Photo by Andrey Grushnikov on Pexels.com Watchung Booksellers is hosting a Poetry Night on Monday, April 29, 2024 at 6:30 PM at da Pepo in Montclair, NJ. I will be reading three of my poems on the theme for this event: “Time.” I have to say that I have a fascination both for concepts of time and time travel. Join myself and other poets as we explore the ide of Time poetically.

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My favorite part of doing the Easter Egg Hunt at Watchung Plaza is buying myself books at @watchungbooksellers.

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Preorder Dune: The Graphic Novel and Receive an Exclusive Print!

Preorder your copy of Dune: The Graphic Novel from any of the booksellers below and receive an exclusive 8x10 print designed by Bill Sienkiewicz! After-Words Bookstore (Chicago, IL) Anderson’s Bookshops (Naperville, IL) Arcadia Books (Spring Green, WI) Ballast Book Company (Bremerton, WA) Bank Square Books (Mystic, CT) Bay Books (Sutton’s Bay, MI) Bethany Beach Books (Bethany Beach, DE) The Book Dragon Shop (Staunton, VA) The Book Nook (Ludlow, VT) The Book Seller (Grass Valley, CA) BookBar (Denver, CO) Bookbug (Kalamazoo, MI) Bookends & Beginnings (Evanston, IL) Bookie’s (Chicago, IL) Bookmiser (Marietta, GA) BookPeople (Austin, TX) Books Inc (Berkeley, CA) Bookshop West Portal (San Francisco, CA) The Briar Patch (Bangor, ME) Brilliant Books (Traverse City, MI) Broadway Books (Portland, OR) Byrd’s Books (Bethel, CT) Capital Books (Sacramento, CA) Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY) Chapter 2 Books (Hudson, WI) Children’s Book World (Los Angeles, CA) Comic Book College (Minneapolis, MN) Copperfield’s Books (California) Country Bookshelf (Bozeman, MT) E. Shaver Booksellers (Savannah, GA) Eagle Harbor Book Co. (Bainbridge Island, WA) East End Books (Provincetown, MA) Epilogue Books (Rockford, MI) Hearthfire Books and Treats (Evergreen, CO) Hicklebee’s (San Jose, CA) Ink Spell Books (Half Moon Bay, CA) Inklings Bookshop (Rushland, PA) Katy Budget Books (Houston, TX) Kew & Willow Books (Kew Gardens, NY) Liberty Bay Books (Poulsbo, WA) Little City Books (Hoboken, NJ) Loganberry Books (Cleveland, OH) Lost City Books (Washington, DC) Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe (Asheville, NC) Misty River Books (British Columbia, Canada) Napa Bookmine (Napa, CA) The Novel Neighbor (St. Louis, MO) Orinda Books (Orinda, CA) Page 2 Books (Seattle, WA) Phoenix Books (Burlington, VT) The Printed Garden Booksellers (Sandy, UT) Read Between the Lynes (Woodstock, IL) Rediscovered Books (Caldwell, ID) Rivendell Bookstore (Abilene, KS) The River’s End Bookstore (Oswego, NY) Sassafras on Sutton (Black Mountain, NC) Schuler Books + Nicola’s Books (Ann Arbor, MI) Showcase Comics and Games (Bryn Mawr, PA) Source Booksellers (Detroit, MI) Skylark Bookshop (Columbia, MO) Split Rock Books (Cold Spring, NY) The Strand (New York, NY) Terrace Books (Brooklyn, NY) Third Place Books (Seattle, WA) The Toadstool Bookshop (Peterborough, NH) Tombolo Books (St. Petersburg, FL) Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop (New Orleans, LA) Watchung Booksellers (Montclair, NJ) Whitelam Books (Reading, MA) Wild Rumpus (Minneapolis, MN) Words Matter Bookstore (Pitman, NJ) Writer’s Block Bookstore (Winter Park, FL)

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Amazing first day. Thank you @watchungbooksellers for hosting me and giving me the confidence to do my very first story time and book signing event with children. Such an honor that the montclair community came out to support and sold out of Little Heroes books!! @cherylduncan thank you for all of your support and for the pictures. It was comforting to see a familiar face. @purobrand @sonnyflow mi hermano mil gracias por el apoyo!! @jess_lans no better feeling than seeing family in the crowd. A few hours later I rushed to NYC to take part in @booksofwonder Black History Panel event. I was honored to share a panel with such seasoned vets, many of which had published well over 65 books!! @jerrypinkneystudio @oge_mora @johnparraart @bandersonwriter @e.b.lewis I learned so much from you and thank you for sharing your knowledge with me. Afterwards, I signed over 50 books!! What an amazing first day! #heroesofcolor #scholastic #humbleyourself #2020vision #instaauthor #booksofig Reposted from @_heroesofcolor (at Watchung Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B86oQ96p7ff/?igshid=1v10w4c4uyqu1

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Hillary Clinton in Montclair, NJ

Hillary Clinton in Montclair, NJ

nj.com Hillary Clinton draws 1,000 to N.J. appearance Updated on September 26, 2017 at 8:59 PM 6-7 minutes MONTCLAIR — The line waiting for Hillary Clinton nearly shut down Watchung Plaza in Montclair Tuesday. It went from the entrance of Watchung Booksellers, snaking around the corner and continuing down several blocks of North Fullerton Avenue. Clinton greeted about 1,000 people who paid $30…

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“I Have a Dream,” at Watchung Booksellers

Tomorrow, on #MLKDay, I will do a reading from my translation of “I Have a Dream,” that beautiful and emblematic speech by Dr. #MartinLutherKing, Jr. The event will take place at @watchungbooks, at 7PM. (If you’d like to attend, please register here.)

Tomorrow, on #MLKDay, I will do a reading from my translation of “I Have a Dream,” that beautiful and emblematic speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event will take place at Watchung Booksellers, at 7PM. (If you’d like to attend, please register in this link. The entire conversation will be in Spanish.) I will dedicate this event:– to #KeenanAnderson, a high school teacher, who was…

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Watchung Booksellers, New Jersey (via)

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We're SOOOOOOOO jealous!!! We want!!! #Repost @ljsackman ・・・ We waited three hours for 30 seconds with @hillaryclinton at the @watchungbooksellers and it was beyond worth it to hear Truly say on the way back to the car: "Hillary Clinton told me I was cool. I definitely think I can be president someday." Thank you, Hillary, for inspiring the little ones whom we need to #rocktheworld someday. . . . #girlstrong #whoruntheworld #thankyouhillary #bookstagram #momentsthatmatter (at Watchung Booksellers)

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Our Nasty Women Book Club continues into the summer with our first graphic novel pick and a taste of Didion. Join us Tuesday, June 20th at 7pm to discuss Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maron, then mark your calendars for Wednesday, July 12th at 7pm for our meeting on Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking ✨🌊 (at Watchung Booksellers)

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Made it to the Halfway There Reading Series at @watchungbooksellers earlier this week. It had a kick-ass lineup, including Melissa Febos and Marcy Dermansky, and I ended up purchasing two of Dermansky’s previous books. Yay new books!

You can learn more about the series itself here.

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Photos: Gay May Day at Watchung Plaza

Photos: Gay May Day at Watchung Plaza

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Gay May Day: Montclair High School Gay Straight Alliance hosts a day of entertainment. Performances by MHS musicians and bands, raffles of products, gift cards, and services from Montclair businesses that are LGBTQ- friendly and supportive of the goals of the MHS Gay Straight Alliance, including Watchung Booksellers. 100% of raffle proceeds and all donations will benefit The Ali Forney…