Oct 15, 2021
EPISODE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION:
Bonnie Tsui is an American author and journalist of Hong Kong
descent. She was born in New York, New York, graduated from Harvard
University, and currently lives in San Francisco. She grew up a
competitive swimmer. Her book American Chinatown: A People’s
History of Five Neighborhoods was published by Simon & Schuster's
Free Press in 2009 and won the 2009-2010 Asian/Pacific American
Award for Literature. The Los Angeles Times said it "explored their
class struggles, rivalries, customs, and dialects," of the cities'
Chinatowns. Tsui also contributes essays and cultural commentary to
well-known American magazines, including The New York Times and
California Sunday. Her accolades include the 2019 National Press
Foundation Fellowship and the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award
at Harvard University. In 2020, she published a memoir, Why We
Swim, with Algonquin Books, which delves into the history of
swimming. The New York Times called it an enthusiastic and
thoughtful work. Her third book, Sarah & the Big Wave, about
big-wave women surfers, will be published by Henry Holt Books for
Young Readers in spring 2021. She is a member of the San Francisco
Writers Grotto.
A longtime contributor to The New York Times, Bonnie has also performed numerous times at Pop-Up Magazine and other live storytelling events. She helped to launch F&B: Voices from the Kitchen, a storytelling project from La Cocina that shares stories from cooks and kitchens that are less often heard. She also appeared as a talking head in the documentary The Search for General Tso, to explain the curiously foreign-yet-familiar quality of Chinese-American food and was featured in the History Channel series “America: Promised Land.”
NEXT STEPS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
1. Get the book Why We Swim.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS VIDEO:
– Intro
– This Water Thing
– Water & Healing
– Water & Spirituality
– Fear of Water
– Gudlaugur Frithorsson’s Journey
– Cultures Around Swimming
– Water Kept Her Safe for Security
– Water is Special
– Called to Write about Water
– Soul Speaking to Another Soul
– Who Needs the Book & Could be Convinced
– Yin & Yang
– To Be Able to Reach You Where You Are
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