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Lisa Ko
Lisa Ko on Destroying Her Diaries
In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
By
Thresholds
| June 4, 2025
Aisha Gawad and Lisa Ko on What Really Happened at the Albany Book Festival
“In a time of genocide, who gets to be outraged? Who gets to be indulged, listened to, humanized, validated?”
By
Fariha Róisín
| January 27, 2025
Hundreds of authors have signed an open letter in support of Lisa Ko.
By
Dan Sheehan
| November 27, 2024
AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of April
The Month in Listening Literarily
By
Audiofile Magazine
| April 29, 2024
Lisa Ko: How Writing a Novel is Like Wandering a Flea Market
“Don’t be too precious about things. And also: everything has the potential to be precious.”
By
Lisa Ko
| March 22, 2024
Percival Everett! Téa Obreht! Michael Ondaatje! 25 new books out today.
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| March 19, 2024
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Jordan Pérez on Understanding Womanhood Through Nature and Learning Poetic Restraint
By
Jordan Pérez
| February 12, 2024
Letting the Unspoken Speak: A Reading List of Historical Trauma in Fiction
By
Etaf Rum
| September 22, 2023
Exclusive: See the cover for Lisa Ko's latest novel,
Memory Piece
.
By
Literary Hub
| July 20, 2023
“The Bittersweet Joys.” Five Books That Center Asian Voices in Adoption Narratives
Lyn Liao Butler Recommends Anita Kushwaha, Amanda Jayatissa, and More!
By
Lyn Liao Butler
| February 14, 2022
Lisa Ko on Fictionalizing
Real Life
In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the
WMFA
Podcast
By
WMFA
| August 26, 2020
Angelica Baker, Lisa Ko, and Courtney Maum on Who Tells Their Stories
Onstage Conversations From the LIC Reading Series
By
LIC Reading Series
| January 16, 2020
LIC Reading Series Podcast
: Angelica Baker, Lisa Ko, Courtney Maum
Onstage Conversations From the LIC Reading Series
By
LIC Reading Series
| January 14, 2020
Finding Yourself as a Writer in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Remembering Amelia Blanquera's Writing, Research, and Curiosity
By
Amelia Blanquera
| February 14, 2018
The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List
Or: Clarity in Consensus
By
Emily Temple
| December 18, 2017
Meet National Book Award Finalist Lisa Ko
The author of
The Leavers
on being perennially timely
By
Emily Temple
| November 8, 2017
7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
November 4, 2025
by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"