#Rachel Khong

[dk-thrive]

Is it this way for you?

Her heart pumps blood, her lungs take in air, she sleeps, wakes, eats, excretes. Will her life be long or short? What has she chosen, she wonders, and what has chosen her? She likes the fragrance of gardenias, but not the scent of lipstick. She doesn’t mind the rain. She is in love, which feels, to her, at once easy and hard, elemental and ungraspable—like vanishing and eternity at the same time. She wants to ask of every person she meets: Is it this way for you?

— Rachel Khong, Real Americans: A Novel (Knopf, April 30, 2024)

#Rachel khong #real americans #future #destiny #path #purpose #life

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Real Americans: A Novel

By Rachel Khong.

#Real Americans #Rachel Khong #books #book covers

[geekcavepodcast]

Spotify Announces New Audio Series “Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind”

The second Spotify / DC / Warner Bros. audio series is all about renowned psychologist Dr. Harleen Quinzel. Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind is developed, written, and directed by Eli Horowitz. Matthew Derby and Rachel Khong will also contribute to the script. Christina Ricci stars as Harley with Billy Magnussen as the Joker and Justin Hartley as Batman. Realm will handle physical production on the audio series.

Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind is an original story told from Harley’s perspective. “When listeners meet Harley, she’s still Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a gifted psychologist at Arkham Asylum in Gotham City determined to help the patients her colleagues have written off. But her dad is sick and in need of an expensive life-saving operation Harleen can’t afford. So, when she meets “Patient J,” a unique criminal who seems to have a strange power over everyone but her, Harleen makes a fateful decision: to use her relationship with J to get what she needs, leading both of them down a dangerous path that will change their lives forever.” (DC Comics)

#harley quinn and the joker sound mind #sound mind #harley quinn #joker #batman #harleen quinzel #eli horowitz #christina ricci #billy magnussen #justin hartley #matthew derby #rachel khong #realm #spotify #dc entertainment #warner bros #TGCLiz

[leehallfae]

“it’s always this: someone on one side of a door, someone on the other.”

— rachel khong, goodbye, vitamin

#my reading #rachel khong #quote #prose #words #goodbye vitamin #lyra #will

[kamreadsandrecs]

#writing #books #rachel khong #real americans

[wttnblog]

9 Exciting April 2024 Book Releases to Read Now

I cannot even explain how many absolutely incredible looking books are coming out this month! I guess a good place to start would be that I checked out 4 influencer ALCs from Libro.fm when my previous maximum was 2. There were simply too many good ones to pass up on! Even outside of those, the books coming out this month look delightful from start to finish and I’m sure many of the WTTN Best Of…

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#abby jimenez #april book releases #april books #book releases #Books #books to read #by Jocelyn #emily henry #funny story #heidi reimer #holly gramazio #jo piazza #just for the summer #kalie holford #kt nguyen #leigh bardugo #New Releases #rachel khong #reading #real americans #the familiar #the husbands #the last love song #the mother act #the sicilian inheritance #you know what you did

[hopelessromanticlittleshit]

#goodbye vitamin #Rachel khong #books #Instagram

[m-c-easton]

Submission Spotlight: Guernica

If you're looking for a lit mag to place short fiction with a slant towards originality (or even weirdness) and a lot of interiority, may I suggest Guernica? They're open now, and there's no fee. Competition is a tough, so send your best! #publishing

As of May 2023, Guernica is currently open for no-fee submissions here (follow their link to create a free Submittable account). Founded in 2004, Guernica publishes poetry, essays, fiction, criticism, and journalism online. Unlike most magazines, it pays contributors rather than staff; in fact, its staff are entirely volunteers. Rather than a university affiliation, the magazine is partnered with…

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#Guernica #literary editors #literary journals #literary magazines #literary marketplace #no submission fee journal #paying markets for short stories #publishing fiction #publishing short stories #Rachel Khong #Sarmista Das #submissions #Submittable for writers #submitting fiction #The Los Angeles Review of Books #Yorgos Lanthimos

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌸 Books for AAPI Month

❤️ Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with this list featuring some of the FEW empowering, vibrant stories written by AAPI authors or starring AAPI protagonists.

🌸 What books did you read for AAPI month?

✨ 2024 Releases ❤️ Night for Day - Roselle Lim 🌸 The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years - Shubnum Khan 🏮The Great Reclamation - Rachel Heng ❤️ Lies and Weddings - Kevin Kwan 🌸 Valley Verified - Kyla Zhao 🏮 The Catch - Amy Lea ❤️ Your Utopia - Bora Chung 🌸 Tehrangeles - Porochista Khakpour 🏮 Horse Barbie - Geena Rocero ❤️ Memory Piece - Lisa Ko 🌸 The Fetishist - Katherine Min 🏮 Real Americans - Rachel Khong ❤️ The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai 🌸 Manila Takes Manhattan - Carla de Guzman 🏮 The Last Phi Hunter - Salinee Goldenberg and Ilya Nazarov ❤️ May the Best Player Win - Kyla Zhao 🌸 Are You Nobody Too? - Tina Cane 🏮 The Design of Us - Sajni Patel ❤️ Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo-Reum 🌸 Heir - Sabaa Tahir 🏮 Maya's Laws of Love - Alina Khawaj ❤️ Midnights with You - Clare Osongco 🌸 Vilest Things - Chloe Gong 🏮 This Place is Magic - Irene Te ❤️ Guilt and Ginataan - Mia P. Manansal 🌸 Icon and Inferno - Marie Lu 🏮 Calling of Light - Lori M. Lee ❤️ Bite Me, Royce Taslim - Lauren Ho 🌸 Rules for Rule Breaking - Talia Tucker 🏮 What's Eating Jackie Oh? - Patricia Park ❤️ How to End a Love Story - Yulin Kuang 🌸 Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White - Amélie Wen Zhao 🏮 This Is How You Fall in Love - Anika Hussain ❤️ Just Playing House - Farah Heron 🌸 The Boyfriend Wish - Swati Teerdhala 🏮 A Tempest of Tea - Hafsah Faizal

✨ Romance ❤️ Dating Dr. Dil - Nisha Sharma 🌸 King of Wrath - Ana Huang 🏮 The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang ❤️ Girl Gone Viral - Alisha Rai 🌸 Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev 🏮 Role Playing - Cathy Yardley ❤️ The Hurricane Wars - Thea Guanzon 🌸 Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

✨ Fantasy ❤️ She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan 🌸 Babel - R.F. Kuang 🏮 Daughter of the Moon Goddess - Sue Lynn Tan ❤️ The Deep Sky - Yume Kitasei 🌸 The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri 🏮 Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel ❤️ Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki 🌸 Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

✨ Mystery ❤️ Arsenic and Adobo - Mia P. Manansala 🌸 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto 🏮 The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd ❤️ Miracle Creek - Angie Kim 🌸 A Disappearance in Fiji - Nilima Rao 🏮 The Leftover Woman - Jean Kwok ❤️ The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey 🌸 Things We Do in the Dark - Jennifer Hillier

✨ Young Adult ❤️ The Wrath and the Dawn - Renée Ahdieh 🌸 All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir 🏮 Forget Me Not - Alyson Derrick ❤️ Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar 🌸 These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong 🏮 This Book Won't Burn - Samira Ahmed ❤️ American Betiya - Anuradha D. Rajurkar 🌸 Dragonfruit - Makiia Lucier

#aapi authors #aapi heritage month #aapi #books #book list #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

[briarintheroses]

books to read:

- brideshead revisited by evelyn waugh

- leonard and hungry paul by rónán hession

- on the savage side by tiffany mcdaniel

- real americans by rachel khong

- carrie by steven king

#books #bookworm #booklover #english lit #carrie white #brideshead revisited #tiffany mcdaniel #contemporary literature

[dk-thrive]

Trapped in a moment

My alarm rang at seven and I pressed snooze as usual. The second time I awoke, it was still seven. This happened occasionally, these blips in my existence. I got blank stares whenever I tried explaining them, so I didn’t anymore. The feeling I had was that time wouldn’t move. A second would refuse to pass as it usually did, and I would find myself trapped in a moment—unable to progress beyond a minute or two...

Outside, I regarded my surroundings with suspicion, as though they were a dream I might wake up from. Like everyone, I had recently watched The Matrix. Would it be so bad to discover that life until now, or some portion of it, had been illusory—an advanced society’s highly realistic simulation? It might actually be a relief.

— Rachel Khong, Real Americans: A Novel (Knopf, April 30, 2024)

#rachel kong #real americans #the matrix #moment #time #stuck

[clonerightsagenda]

#recently read 4/2023

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones. Jade Jennifer Daniels is back in Proofrock, just as a serial killer escapes from his prison convoy in the middle of a snowstorm.

Nothing But the Rain by Naomi Salman. A novella about an old woman trapped in a town where the touch of rainwater wipes your most recent memories away.

Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong. Ruth moves back in with her parents to help take care of her father with dementia. Sweet, funny, and sad.

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez. Twelve years after their sister vanished, Jess and Nina spot a woman who looks like her on a reality tv show and plan to track her down.

Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas. A collection of locals and Americans working together in an NGO compound are caught up in Sudan's worsening civil war.

#recently read #this is much shorter than usual bc a) hell semester wrapping up #and b) reading comic books #but I feel these ones have sat in my drafts long enough

[sinfonia-relativa]

Le gustaba usar la palabra diamante como un término cuantitativo.

"Solo un diamante" decía a veces cuando comíamos juntos y yo apretaba la botella de catsup sobre la hamburguesa de ambos.

Eso me gustaba.

Vitaminas para no olvidar// Rachel Khong

Pogo

#escritos #notas #frases #citas #sinfonia-relativa #redcomunitariatumblr #vida #pogo #septiembre 2022

[leehallfae]

“tossing in dimes and quarters whenever we had them. we’d pull connected pine needles apart like wishbones. i don’t know how we came up with so many wishes; i can’t remember a single one. but what could we have wanted back then?”

— rachel khong, goodbye, vitamin

#my reading #rachel khong #quote #prose #goodbye vitamin #words

[jd-heyman]

Book Festival Report, Erik Larson, Rachel Khong, Danielle Dutton, and More

Apologies for leaving you without a Book Wag last week; I was in La-La Land for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. It was my third appearance there, but my first as an author. I took part in a panel called Life, Interrupted: Mental-Health Memoirs, with fellow memoirists Alice Carrière (Everything/Nothing/Someone) and Anna Gazmarian (Devout), moderated by my colleague, Chicago critic Elizabeth Taylor. 

Read more - https://jdheyman.substack.com/p/hello-smarty-its-your-bookwag-c69

#jdheyman #celebrity news #entertainment #fashion #caltur

[bookjubilee]

Book Review: ‘Real Americans,’ by Rachel Khong

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